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Wen Giving presents Kimberley Conservation Hub

Conservation / Environment

Oceana / Australia

Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Australian Wildlife Conservancy and Wen Giving have unveiled the Charnley River – Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary project at a special event in Perth, Western Australia.

With the support of Wen Giving, AWC will build the Kimberley Conservation Hub over the next three years, providing essential research and office amenities as well as meeting and training spaces, housing and visitor engagement infrastructure.

This expanded base of operations will allow AWC staff and its partners to spend more time at the sanctuary and provide greater collaboration with Ngarinyin Traditional Owners.

“This purpose-built facility is central to advancing our long-term commitment to protecting, restoring and researching the unique biodiversity of the Kimberley. The Kimberley Conservation Hub is the next step in scaling up conservation efforts in this important region,” said AWC Chief Executive Tim Allard.

Wen Giving is committed to conservation and in the West Australian Kimberley, Charnley River–Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary is a strategic centre for AWC’s efforts. The sanctuary’s sandstone ranges, rainforest valleys and savanna woodlands are home to many threatened species, not found anywhere else in Australia.

As a world-class conservation centre, the Kimberley Conservation Hub will support collaboration, strengthen fire management coordination and build capacity to deliver conservation on a landscape scale across this incredibly important region.

Charnley lies to the north-west of Mornington–Marion Downs Sanctuary and Tableland Partnership Area and is nestled between the Wilinggin and Dambimangari Partnership Areas and Yampi Sound Training Area (one of 20 Priority Places in the Australian Government’s Threatened Species Action Plan 2022–2032).

Despite declines elsewhere, threatened mammals such as Widjingnarri (Northern Quolls), Golden Bandicoots, and Warrmuna (Northern Brushtail Possums) persist in the region and areas such as the Artesian Range continue to provide refuge for a suite of endemics including tiny Yaali (Monjons) and feisty Rough-scaled Pythons.

“Having a central, localised facility will only enhance and foster increased collaboration with partners and other stakeholders. With a central meeting point, training facility and research centre, we’ll be able to launch some really exciting discovery programs and influence all sorts of conservation outcomes,” AWC Regional Ecologist Dr Skye Cameron said.

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