For decades the people of Denmark have successfully fought to keep the natural environment and our community safe and intact. Now a new wave of tourism development threatens us as the Shire Council looks to create nine tourism precincts across approximately 2,280 hectares of some of our most sensitive and unspoiled areas.

As many of you know, the Council recently rezoned, by a majority of just one, rural land that falls within the proposed 440ha William Bay Tourism Precinct on the doorstep of William Bay National Park. The rezoning is for a major tourist development. A taste of things to come.

In 2021 William Bay National Park was identified by the Shire as over-promoted, over-visited, under pressure and in danger of environmental degradation. It doesn't need more of the same. We don't need more of the same.

Chaos from the global climate crisis is now a daily experience. Places like Denmark Shire, with its world recognised bio diversity and beauty, are critically important - now more than ever.

So is community well being. It's much more than queuing for coffee. For years the Shire has struggled with the load placed on waste management and essential services by tourism. People here struggle to find housing and pay the bills. WA Planning Commission has identified a direct link between tourism levels in south western WA, supply shortages and rising costs in residential housing. 

All of us who accept and aspire to stewardship take responsibility for handing our environment and community, healthy and intact, to future generations.

Please join with us, Denmark Sustainable Tourism Action Group (D-STAG) to help stop over-tourism and its profound negative effects on the environment and community we love. We invite you and your families and friends for music (bring ukuleles, guitars, trombones, accordions etc) and a sausage sizzle (sausages supplied) as we formally launch our campaign for our people and this place.

Listen to respected locals as they briefly outline the growing adverse impacts of tourism on our environment and us. Have your say. Send a message with us to the Denmark Shire Council and the Minister For Planning.

Come and CELEBRATE DENMARK ▪️ PEOPLE AND PLACE                   

When: 4.00pm Saturday 9 March        Where: Kwoorabup Community Adventure Park

This is worth fighting for.