As industry circles, calls build to expand Ningaloo World Heritage Site
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A campaign for the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Site boundaries to expand to include Exmouth Gulf could not have come at a more dramatic time.
The Gulf, cupped by the North West Cape on which Exmouth town sits, is experiencing a COVID-19-sparked domestic tourism boom.
Heavy industry is circling it, the last non-industrialised coastal ecosystem of its region; and across the country, the United Nations heritage committee flagged the possible downgrading of Ningaloo’s east coast opposite, the Great Barrier Reef, due to its declining health in the face of climate change.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) has welcomed the WA Government's weekend announcement that they are fast tracking and expanding their.