What is under threat?
The Margaret River Wine and Tourism Region is the jewel in the crown of Western Australia’s South West. From an international point of view, it’s seen as Western Australia’s front garden.
The cleanest air on the planet sweeps in here from the Southern Ocean – it hasn’t touched land since it left Antarctica tens of thousands of kilometres earlier (even having completed a round-the-planet circulation). Two great oceans, the Southern and the Indian, meet here in the cool, clear waters of Cape Leeuwin. Their rolling swells are shaped by curving reefs and arced up into some of the most renowned surf breaks on the planet. 
Inland, the towering natural forests of Karri and Jarrah open out to fertile hills and small plains, chequer-boarded with vineyards, dairy farms, olive groves, boutique orchards and vegetable gardens. Many local producers practise bio-dynamic farming and much of the gourmet produce is organically certified. The wines made here in Margaret River are among the finest in the world, yet grace dinner tables all over Australia because of the their tremendous value, consistent quality and attractive fruit characters.
The local community is a solid blend of the descendants of pioneer families (many still on family farms settled in the 30’s or earlier) with surf-enthusiast business and trades people, sea-changees, wine professionals, vineyard/agricultural workers, artists, craftpersons and others. All of them have paid a price to be here and are fiercely determined to protect the region into which they have invested their lives and their children’s futures.