The waters of the Great Australian Bight are a vast and pristine marine wilderness.

A sanctuary to four different species of whales and Australian sea lions, the Bight is now under threat from big oil and petroleum companies, including BP, who are seeking to start exploratory deep sea drilling in the wild oceans of the Bight.

We do not support oil drilling in the Bight. The risks are too great. Oil spills like those in the Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska devastate the marine environment and destroy sustainable industries. Sign the petition today to keep BP out of the Bight.

Furthermore, on climate change grounds, we cannot afford to open new fossil fuel fields and blow the ‘carbon budget’.

In the next few weeks, we will be releasing groundbreaking, independent modelling of the risks and impacts of an oil spill in the remote and windswept deep waters of the Bight.

This is the start of a major new campaign for the Wilderness Society which aims to convince government and companies, such as BP, to keep out of the Bight.

I hope that you will join with us in the coming weeks and months in support of this momentous new campaign to save the Bight.

More from the web site - www.wilderness.org.au/campaign…

A place like no other

The Great Australian Bight is home to one of the world’s most important southern right whale nurseries. People from all over the world travel to the Bight to watch the whales from its dramatic clifftops while helping sustain a thriving tourism industry.

Communities across South Australia depend on its healthy fisheries and clean coastlines not just for recreation, but for their livelihoods.

The Bight is teaming with animals, from playful Australian sea lions to entire ecosystems of tiny ocean creatures.

In fact, it’s such a one-of-a-kind place that over 85 per cent of known species in the Great Australian Bight are found nowhere else in the world.

One step away from disaster

If BP get their way, this previously untouched region of pristine ocean will become littered with oil rigs, drilling the deep ocean floors day and night – just one mistake away from our own unwanted Gulf of Mexico disaster.

We can’t afford to let BP take another big risk in this pristine marine environment.

We can save the Great Australian Bight before it's too late. Tell the decision-makers not to give BP the go ahead!