Our century's old Jarrah forest is being cut down and mined at a rate of 870 hectares a year. And the leftover wood after logging, is burnt by Alcoa to clear the area for mining.
Mining company Alcoa of Australia plan to expand their strip-mining operations close to the town of Dwellingup, Western Australia. We have created an area of forest and named it the "Dwellingup Discovery Forest" will the sole purpose of saving this area from mining. We have declared this area of forest as an "indefinite bauxite mining exclusion zone" and the only way to legally protect the Dwellingup Discovery Forest from mining we need an amendment to the State Agreement Act and the Minister for Environment to sign a ministerial statement declaring the Dwellingup Discovery Forest as an indefinite mining exclusion zone.