This ‘3 Year Plan’ presents strategic direction to ensure Wheatbelt NRM effectively responds to national, state and regional NRM needs. This will be achieved by engaging our community to actively support and progress our strategic objectives. This ‘3 Year Plan’ is supported each year by an Operations Plan that sets out how resources will be allocated and utilised in progressing the strategic objectives in this document.
The Wheatbelt Regional NRM Strategy guides NRM investment priorities within the region. The regional community provided important guidance to the development of the strategy, which reflects their values and understanding of the environment they live in and know.
Australia has an incredible diversity of bird species, with 898 recorded, including vagrants or accidental visitors and introduced species. Of this total, Western Australia has 550 species, 17 of which are found only in Western Australia. The Avon River Basin has a remarkable 224 recorded species - over 25 percent of the national total.
The Australian Government is asking rural and regional communities to help identify research and adoption priorities for their $5 billion Future Drought Fund.
A recent announcement by the Australian Government has provided opportunities for several groups across the Wheatbelt and mid-west to deliver on groundwork to build drought resilience on agricultural landscapes.
People working in agriculture in the Wheatbelt NRM region have an opportunity to help craft a new online drought resilience resource being produced by the Australian Government.
WA’s South West and Wheatbelt regions will be among the top 10% of places on earth where rainfall decline will be the most severe, driven by climate change, according to a report from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre released last week.
The Australian Government has taken immediate action to help protect threatened species that have been impacted by the bushfires ravaging the eastern states.