Lake Preston North
Fragyle is dedicated to ensuring that scientific data is provided to people making decisions about the future of this area.
The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is preparing a major planning document covering the area from Dawesville to Binningup which includes the Yalgorup lakes and their surrounding environment.
Fragyle has prepared a detailed submission to the EPA summarising the major features of this environment as described by eminent scientists and making recommendations about its future. The summary section of this submission reads:
The Yalgorup Lake System from Dawesville to Myalup is of world-wide scientific significance. It represents a complex diversity of ecological systems which are all, however, interfaced and intertwined.
The area presents the people of Western Australia with an extraordinary and unique opportunity to explore and research a wide range of diverse, challenging and rewarding biological complexities.
It gives the people of Western Australia a unique opportunity for exercise, for education, for relaxation and re-uniting with nature.
The area should be preserved and protected for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, not only of Western Australia, but from all over the world.
No more development should be allowed at any place on the whole Lake system from Dawesville to Myalup.
The economic benefit of land sale and the allowance of detrimental land use practices to adjoin this system should no longer supersede the environmental costs (Goater 2003)
A full copy of this submission is here.
