BES Objectives

The Society’s Constitution requires it to:

• Work to protect the shire’s natural environment and its special ecological sites and features
• Encourage native wildlife/habitat preservation
• Encourage public policies that recognise the intrinsic and practical value of local fauna and flora and promote their appreciation
• Work for environmental harmony in major land and building development proposals
• Encourage long-term environmentally sustainable, low-impact, economic public works programs.
• Support sustainable primary industries via sound natural resource management
• Promote planning policies to preserve the natural environment, beautify the shire and achieve a built environment benefiting future generations
• Encourage habitat maintenance and expansion for native flora and fauna to flourish
• Encourage eradication of environmentally harmful plants and animals
• Cooperate with all tiers of government and in partnership with other like-minded organisations.