Environmental Defenders Office (Wa) Inc
Environmental in Perth

Care of WA’s environment by providing individuals and community groups with environmental legal services including advice, education, representation and opportunity to participate in reform of laws affecting the environment. In the early 1990s dos were established in Victoria and Queensland. The EDP appears in numerous cases in the WA Mining Warden’s Court, successfully expanding standing of public to object to mining tenements. EDP is a finalist in the WA Environment Awards. EDP is again a finalist in the WA Environment Awards. EDP begins work on Climate Change and Energy Law project. During much of the year, the EDP assists community groups who win in turning back efforts to mine coal in Margaret River. EDP represents Sea Shepherd and others in WA Supreme Court action that sought, unsuccessfully, to quit WA Premier’s controversial shark drum line program though EDP loses, Court agrees action was in the public interest and does not award costs to the State. EDP also appears in 2 WA State istrative Tribunal proceedings, on behalf of rural residents of York Shire opposed to Nita’s proposed municipal waste landfill close Mt Observation NP, and on behalf of other rural landowners opposed to expansion of sand mine close Ellen brook. The EDOWA can only work to help the WA community and environment through your abundant donations.

Protection of WA’s environment by providing individuals and community groups with environmental legal services including advice, education, representation and opportunity to participate in reform of laws affecting the environment. Teamwork comes naturally because everyone involved wants to be here. Volunteering at the EDP has provided me with an opportunity apply the skills I learn at law school to aid a diverse group of people protect the environment. Upon my return to Western Australia, I continued to labor for a period for a junior oil and gas company. We would not be thriving without the commitment of outstanding and passionate people, dedicated to protecting WA's environment. The legal practice is managed by a Principal Solicitor, who is assisted by staff and volunteers. Alex Gardner is a Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia and has more than 30 years’ experience as an environmental lawyer across Australia. Since that time he has pursued a strong interest in environmental protection and better environmental laws through positions in the State and Commonwealth public sector and as a parliamentary researcher for the Greens (WA). She is a committee member of the National Environmental Law Association (WA Chapter) and has a potent interest in environmental law and public interest litigation. She has done remarkable work in building alliances across all community sectors and in the maximum remote communities of outback Western Australia. He was an energetic supporter of the establishment of the EDOWA in the 1990’s and has been involved with the EDP throughout most of its 20 year history. Supported by a powerful team of volunteers, we are active hard to protect the WA environment. Through his professional legal experience, Deccan has a detailed understanding of all aspects of environmental law, including environmental impact assessment, water management, biodiversity conservation, climate change, Aboriginal heritage, mining and land access, and human rights. They are for anyone interested in using the law to save the environment. Environmental impact assessment in Western Australia Commonwealth environmental impact assessment. Biodiversity conservation and regulate of introduced species in Western Australia. Biodiversity conservation under Commonwealth law. Your membership subscription helps the EDP to bear its legal services, including representation in courts and tribunals to those wishing to save the environment. Your promote is vital to our ability to produce legal services to community groups and individuals seeking environmental justice for the State’s air, land, water and biodiversity for tomorrow generations to come. You also help protect the environment by helping the EDP to bear its legal services to people who could otherwise not afford it. This will include scrutiny of environmental impact assessment and approvals processes in respect of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as advocating for a WA Climate Change Act, drawing on the experience of other domestic legislation. Concern of WA’s biodiversity we will use existing legislation (including the fresh Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (WA) (BC Act)) to advise on and advocate for better protection of WA’s biodiversity. National coordination of dos subsequent recent discussions about improved coordination of the dos across Australia, we will explore ways to access the expertise and greater resources of other dos to aid clients with strategic litigation projects with national significance (e.g. the 2017 review of the Commonwealth government’s climate change policies), to ensure tha