Key Points
- It’s important to plan your visit and travel safely, including checking seasonal weather and bushfire advice.
- Stay on designated trails and roads, so you don’t damage plants or the environment.
- Take only memories, and do not pick wildflowers or remove any plants or wildlife.
Bushwalkers on the Ravensthorpe Range Credit: Terry Dunham
Behaviours such as staying to the path, taking your rubbish away with you, leaving the area as you found it are all great examples of the desired behaviour we want to see visitors abide by.Jonnie Cobby
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The impacts of First Nations tourism
Originally from China, photographer Sophie Xiang now lives in Perth and teaches wildflower phone photography.
Things as reckless as people in four-wheel drives accessing areas that are off limits, has obvious impacts such as vegetation damage, soil compaction and potential weed and disease spreading; to something seemingly more innocent as straying from a designated path to get that perfect photo, could be unknowingly trampling plants that are sensitive and rare.Jonnie Cobby
Queen of Sheba orchid. Credit: Terry Dunham
Jonnie Cobby, National Park Ranger.
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