Western Australia supports the country's 30 per cent land conservation target by 2030, but it has no target to meet the goal within its own borders, with the head of national parks management admitting it will be difficult.
Mr Sharp said 1.2 million hectares of land had been processed through the program so far and that figure would reach 2.5 million in May.WA Greens MLC Brad Pettitt said Plan for Our Parks needed to be expanded and better resourced if WA was to do its fair share in meeting the national target.
"Large-scale land conservation targets will be fatally flawed if we continue to explore for fossil fuels, open new areas to fracking or decimate native vegetation via logging and land clearing," he said.Australia is broken down into 89 bioregions and 25 of them are in WA. He said previously under-represented regions like the Gascoyne and Murchison were seeing more parks created but it would be difficult to add to the conservation estate in the Pilbara due to its minerals interests.Currently 21 per cent of WA's conservation estate is jointly managed with traditional owners.
"We will be approaching 50 per cent of all of the reserves and lands we manage being subjected to a joint management arrangement," he said.
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