About Protect Ningaloo

Who we are

Protect Ningaloo is a grassroots initiative by ordinary people who are inspired by one of the world’s last great places and want to protect it. We are supported by an alliance of community groups and charities. Cape Conservation Group is a volunteer organization based in Exmouth. The Conservation Council of WA is the state’s premier environmental NGO. The Australian Marine Conservation Society is the nation’s peak marine charity. All of these groups were members of the historic Save Ningaloo Reef campaign that ran from 2000-2005. We’re supported by scientists, researchers, tourism operators, rec-fishers, birders and enthusiastic amateur nature lovers from all over the world. We’re strapped for cash, short of time and we’re in the fight of our lives but we hope you’ll feel the passion and help us however you can.

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What do we want?

We want to put the welfare of the Reef, the Range and the Gulf first in all development decisions.  We’re determined to protect and preserve the extraordinary ecosystems that make up the Ningaloo Region.  But to do that we need to restore some precautionary principles to coastal planning locally.  We need to tell the WA and Commonwealth governments that Ningaloo’s Nursery needs protection not industrialisation.  We want to celebrate a wonder of the world and save it from degradation.  The only way we’ll achieve that is to get the news out and rally the passion of people like you. Protect Ningaloo supports a sustainable, creative future for the region.