Conservation

You can apply for a commercial fishing licence online or by downloading and completing a form.

A commercial operations licence is required for any commercial business activities that are conducted on land under the Conservation and Land Management Regulations 2002.

Community Stewardship Grants are available annually to support community-based projects that serve to protect and restore the local environment, enabling local community groups to undertake stewardship of natural resources in their local area.

Feral Cat Management Grants are available for landscape scale, community-based projects to support feral cat management with conservation outcomes for WA’s native fauna.

A licence is required for anyone who keeps, transports, imports, exports or sells restricted fauna or for taking or collecting restricted flora within Western Australia.

A licence is required for recreational fishing from a boat, net fishing, freshwater angling, fishing for rock lobster, abalone, or marron.

WA Naturally publications are produced to enhance knowledge and appreciation of our State's parks, reserves and wildlife.

You can buy general entry tickets to the Perth Zoo and become a member online.

You can change your recreational fishing licence contact details, in person, by post or online.

Public feedback is invited on many of the conservation and management issues being considered.

The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund provided the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions with funding for data synthesis and analysis projects for six fauna species in the Pilbara.

Community conservation groups protect and manage our bushlands through raising awareness of biodiversity values and of natural areas in your local community. 

The State Government is responsible for managing much of the State’s 18 million hectares of native forests and woodlands.

The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund (PEOF) team worked with the Warrawagine Pastoral Station lessee, the Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee and Pilbara Ecological to co-design a biodiversity offset project.

Perth Zoo is a unique events and functions destination and can offer a host of amazing experiences.

Phytophthora dieback impact, management, prevention and research.

The Index of Biodiversity Surveys for Assessments (IBSA) program provides industry, regulators and the community with an index of land-based biodiversity surveys conducted in Western Australia. IBSA helps to create better environmental outcomes by maximising the availability of biodiversity data.

The Western Australian Government recognises the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Murujuga ‒ the past, present and future generations of Ngarda Ngarli ‒ and their ongoing connection to this sacred country.

The Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund (PEOF) delivers environmental offset projects in the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia in partnership with Traditional Owners, conservation agencies, industry and government.

You can renew your commercial fishing licence online. To renew online, you must renew your licence before it has expired.

If your vehicle licence has been cancelled, the plates must be returned to the Department of Transport.

Subscribe to any of the newsletters published by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

A listing of threatened native plants and animals that are under identifiable threat of extinction, are rare, or otherwise in need of special protection.

Use the map to view firewood collection locations and find out which areas need a permit.

The State Government’s WA Tree Recovery program was announced in August 2024. The program was established to replant thousands of trees affected by polyphagous shot-hole borer across Perth.