Western Shield, managed by Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation, is a nature conservation program, safeguarding Western Australia's native animals and rescuing them from extinction. Set out in 1996, it is the largest and most successful wildlife conservation program ever undertaken in Australia, as of 2009.
Read more about Western Shield: Conservation Practices, Biological Resurgence, Species Reintroduced, Recent Declines in Native Species, Gilbert's Potoroo Significant Recovery, Effectiveness, See Also
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“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
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