Jarrah Forest is recognised globally as a significant hotspot of plant biodiversity and endemism, and is also managed for land uses such as water, timber and mineral production, recreation, and conservation. [5] [6] [7] Location and description [ edit] The Jarrah forests are on Noongar Country. For more than 45,000 years, the people of the Noongar, the Amangu, Ballardong, Yued, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wardandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari, have held custodianship over the jarrah and its spectacular biodiversity.
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The Northern Jarrah Forests are under unprecedented threat, from a potentially fatal combination of climate change and extensive new mining applications. There is a proliferation of new mining threats shown in the map of proposed mining and exploration licenses below. The Jarrah Forests are ancient, evolving and adapting over many millennia to the area's harsh conditions. Unique species developed, with 80% of the animals and plants here found nowhere else on earth—making this a globally-recognised biodiversity hotspot. Image: Jarrah tree by Terri Anne Allen The Jarrah Forest Bioregion is dominated by a duricrusted plateau of the Yilgarn Craton and characterised by jarrah-marri forest on laterite gravels and, in the eastern part, by marri-wandoo woodlands on clayey soils. Conservationists say the northern Jarrah forest in the state's south-west, already under pressure from climate change, is the target of several mining companies looking to explore for minerals.
Wilderness Society WA Jarrah Forests
To inform the public and key decision-makers of what is happening in the forests of Jarrahdale and the imminent risk of losing important biodiversity, cultural and heritage values of the Northern Jarrah Forest, and to protect Northern Jarrah Forrest near Jarrahdale for future generations. In the past, there has been extensive logging and mining. Destruction of a biodiversity hotspot In the south-west corner of WA, an area roughly 300 kilometres south-west of Perth, there are huge stands of tingle, jarrah, karri, marri, tuart and wandoo forests. These trees don't grow anywhere else on earth. Karri forests line the highway on the outskirts of Pemberton, south of Perth. (ABC RN: Fiona Pepper) Jarrah forests are selectively harvested, leaving a healthy forest structure. All harvested forest is regenerated after harvesting for use by future generations, while providing a range of beneficial environmental services as it grows. Jarrah Forest. Image: Patrick Gardner. The Northern Jarrah Forest—a biodiversity hotspot which rivals the world's tropical rainforests—is on the brink of ecological collapse according to a new report.. New research by the Western Australian Forest Alliance; the Wilderness Society and the Conservation Council of WA has found continued clearing of Western Australia's South West forests.
King Jarrah Wellington National Park
Rio Tinto wants to explore for minerals such as lithium and nickel in WA jarrah forest The matter is one of the most highly contested issues to appear before the state's Warden's Court WA's next Forest Management Plan 2024-2033 will have profound implications for the future of WA's northern jarrah forest, the 250-kilometre-long ecosystem stretching from Toodyay to Collie. More land has been cleared for bauxite mining than by the timber industry in WA over the past decade. Dave Osborne
Shallow bauxite ore—the source of aluminium—blankets much of the uplands of the northern Darling Range. Strip mining for bauxite commenced near Jarrahdale in 1963. Initially the rate of land being excavated was small—roughly four hectares a year. But that was before the state government approved major expansions of mining operations. Professor Dixon said the northern jarrah forests were the world's most biodiverse temperate forest, home to more 800 plant species and 10 endangered animal species. "We're losing the integrity of.
WA’s Northern Jarrah Forest will be ‘ripped apart’ by 2060 new report Conservation Council
Jarrah Forest Jarrah Forest Reference Sites: Subsequent to identifying the 40 Bush Forever reference sites on the Swan Coastal Plain, the Perth Region Plant Biodiversity Project (PRPBP) recognised a need to provide a fuller appreciation of the diversity of native vegetation found within the Perth Metropolitan Region (PMR). Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) is the most famous WA tree, noted for its fine timber qualities. With attractive reddish-brown stringybark and a full canopy of bright green foliage, a grove of old, undisturbed jarrah is a beautiful but rare sight. The Jarrah Forest is an Australia bioregion, originally some 50000 km².
