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Together, we saved Toondah Harbour

… and we have won this battle because of the sustained pressure and opposition from everyday Australians!

On Thursday, 18th April 2024, Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announced that Walker Corporation’s destructive proposed real estate project in the precious wetlands at Toondah Harbour has been withdrawn.

For thousands of Australians, tears will flow alongside champagne at the news, after over a decade of grassroots campaigning. To everyone of the tens of thousands of people who has taken action in this journey, thank you!

Together, we saved Toondah Harbour!

But this is just the start!

We should never have had to fight for decades in the first place.

The destructive plans for Toondah Harbour only progressed this far and this stubbornly because Australia’s nature laws are broken. Until we fix these laws, threatened birds and the nature we love remains at risk across the country.

Click here to join our campaign for strong nature laws.

Together we saved Toondah Harbour, and together we can save all the birds you love!

 
 
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Resources: how and why we saved Toondah Harbour

 
 
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Facts about Toondah Harbour

Download this fact sheet to learn more about the national and international implications of the Toondah Harbour project proposal and the solution.

Fact Sheet
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Facts about the Eastern Curlew

Download this factsheet to learn more about the awe inspiring shorebirds that call Toondah Harbour home including the Eastern Curlew which can travel over 10,000km in their annual migration

Fact Sheet

Open Letter from Scientists

Read our open letter from the experts, calling for the protection of Toondah Harbour, to help inform your final public comments.

OPEN LETTER
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Listen: Background Briefing

Listen to The bird and the businessman: A billionaire developer's plan to build on a protected wetland by Steve Cannane, on Background Briefing

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Video: The ABC’s 7:30 on Toondah!

Peter McCutcheon from the ABC’s 7:30 reports on Toondah Harbour, as this decades long proposed development enters its final stages.

Watch the 7:30 report
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Watch: 4 Corners

Watch the ABC 4 Corners Extinction Nation program which detailed the Toondah Harbour development proposal and its impacts to threatened shorebirds.

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Photo credits:
Top: Toondah Harbour Sunrise by Judy Leitch.
Tiles (left to right): Eastern Curlew by Michael Toms, Line in the Mud Rally attendees by Karl Goodsell, Eastern Curlew by Duade Paton, Toondah Harbour by Judy Leitch, Eastern Curlews by Duade Paton, Toondah Harbour by Judy Leitch, Line in the Mud Speech by Karl Goodsell.
Footer: Toondah Harbour by Judy Leitch

 

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