On National Threatened Species Day, 35 community organisations and businesses are calling on the WA Government to create a new network of national parks in Western Australia’s Outback to help provide sanctuaries for 80 animal and 267 plant species at risk of extinction.

Spokesperson for Create Ranger Parks, Suzannah Macbeth, said that there is a huge opportunity to protect and care for an area of the Outback that’s twice the size of WA’s entire South West region.