WalkGPS

Tour our disappearing forest for free!
This Sunday 6 Sept. (or available later dates).
Popular free bus tour, courtesy Jarrahdale Forest Protectors Inc.
Witness first hand the permanent mining devastation.
See link in post below to book.

Forest Fact Tours 2026 Round 3 Fact tour about the mining in our jarrah forest.

🥾🥾 Dryandra Woodland walk (18.5km circuit)
- explore the magical wandoo woodlands in one of WA’s newest national parks; home to an amazing diversity of wildflowers and WA’s animal emblem, the numbat.
From the WalkGPS self-guided bushwalks series. ONLY for the adventurous!
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🥾🥾Helena Valley (Glen Forrest) walk (15km circuit)
Explore the Helena valley; impressive granite outcrops and rugged, forested slopes with great views (within Beelu Nat. Park & other reserves).
From the WalkGPS self-guided bushwalks series. ONLY for the adventurous!
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⚒️⚒️Out of sight and mined. - An irreplaceable heritage - if not valued - will be lost.
Politicians don't want to hear about it, but Alcoa’s bauxite mining operations and proposed major expansions across the Darling Range are surely now widely recognised by a large majority of the community as totally unsustainable.
But is the wider community aware of South32's (Worsley Alumina) expansion plans? - plans that will soon be adjusted into Alcoa plans if Alcoa succeeeds in its intended purchase of South32’s bauxite and aluminium assets. South32's expanding contribution to forest and woodlands destruction shouldn't be ignored.
Google Earth image (looking SW) highlights South32 indicative future mine plans (orange). South32 plans to eventually mine northward from existing Boddington area operations, cross Albany Hwy and continue for over 50km to north of Brookton Hwy.
Photos are from known bushwalks in South32 mine plan areas, mostly areas of stunning, irreplaceable wandoo woodlands and laterite breakaway landscapes.
Meanwhile Alcoa also hopes to eventually mine the area between Mt Cooke and the South 32 areas to the east. Bibbulmun Track walkers will then 'enjoy' near-360deg views of surrounding mined landscape from several sections of the track.
The legacy of such continuing mine expansions? - Remaining ‘protected’ areas will be left as mostly isolated islands of quality mature forest environment, surrounded by an extensive mosaic of failed forest- landscape "rehabilitation": Huge losses of conservation/environmental quality (including critical habitat), drinking water resources, social surroundings, local tourism etc.
So much for 'duty of care' of natural heritage for future generations.
More on baxite mining impacts here:
⚒️⚒️ https://tinyurl.com/32byazaf


Jarrahdale Forest Protectors Inc End Forest Mining The Wilderness Society WA WA Forest Alliance Conservation Council of WA Bibbulmun Track Foundation

🥾🥾 Bickley Reservoir-Ellis Brook walk (13.5km circuit)
-for an invigorating traverse of a few of the valleys and ridges along the rugged Darling Scarp near Perth. Pass through heathlands, jarrah-marri forest, and some wandoo woodlands. Visit the impressive 60 Foot Falls in Ellis Brook Valley. Great views and lots of wildflowers in spring.
ALL the unique info you need for this walk (Walk B09) is here:
🥾🥾 https://tinyurl.com/yv6vx5r9
From the WalkGPS self-guided bushwalks series. Only for the adventurous!
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City of Gosnells Experience Perth Hills

🥾🥾Christmas Tree Well walk (13km circuit)
An easy ramble. Enjoy the picturesque open, old growth wandoo woodlands with some shorter sections of jarrah forest.
Bauxite mining is a potential future threat despite the proposed Conservation Park status of much of the area.
ALL the unique info you need for this walk (Walk C2) is here:
🥾🥾 https://tinyurl.com/24rmv8w4
- from the WalkGPS self-guided bushwalks series. Only for the adventurous!
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🥾🥾 Bannister Hill walk (12.5km circuit)
- destined to be yet another victim of bauxite mining unless sense prevails
(red areas on 3D image are indicative mine plans from Worsley/South32 ERMP of 2008).
- a long-popular walk area, nice mixture of forest, woodlands, large rock slabs, gullies and views, but walk it WHILE YOU CAN!
ALL the info you need for this walk (Walk B02) is here:
🥾🥾 https://tinyurl.com/5hanev83
And for Bannister Hill: Once was a (proposed) Conservation Park VIDEO:
🌳🌳🌳 https://vimeo.com/52900525
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🥾🥾Mount Cooke walk (9.5km circuit)
- experience the best of Mount Cooke on this short but energetic day walk.
40% on Bibb. Track.
Excellent views from this highest of the granite monadnocks of the Darling Range. with excellent views from the ridge. Not too challenging for any reasonably fit walker.
Access ALL the original info you need for this walk (Walk M05) right here:
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Karnet area: then and now.
Once-was-a-walk (14.5km circuit in red) - a traverse of Karnet Rock and across 3 small forested valleys near Serpentine Dam.
But this walk is no longer on WalKGPS. Water catchment protection policy has long banned walkers from here while allowing bauxite strip-mining to expand to within 250m of the drinking water reservoirs.
Many other walk areas are threatened by bauxite mining, not just the Bibbulmun Track.
100 other walks are still online exclusively at:
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Jarrahdale Forest Protectors Inc Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale

The latest from HikeWest.....

- includes an alert on the recent developments that further heighten concern for the survival of the Northern Jarrah Forest in the face of ongoing bauxite mining.
https://mailchi.mp/340861.../hikewest-hiking-news-august2026
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