Healthy Environments

Healthy Environments

The South West Australia Ecoregion (SWAE) is Australia’s only Global Biodiversity Hotspot, and is home to a variety of unique flora and fauna which are under serious threat.

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Global ‘Biodiversity hotspots’ are geographic regions that are extremely rich in species diversity (plant and animal life), yet are threatened with extinction. There are 34 Global Hotspots, encapsulating places like the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand the Amazon and Avon River Basin
The intact habitat contained within these hotspots once covered 15.7 percent Earth's land surface today it only covers 2.3 percent. These ‘hotspots’ are home to at least 150,000 endemic plant species (50 percent of the world's total number of plant species) and nearly 12,000 Birds, Mammals and amphibians (42 percent of the world's total number of terrestrial vertebrates).

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We are all familiar with the natural beauty of the Salmon gum and York gum woodlands and Heathland with their wildflower display in spring.

Malleefowl
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Two WA malleefowl applications have been funded under the round 8 TSN Community Grants Program! Congratulations to the North Central Malleefowl Preservation Group for ' Signage and Baiting in the Shire of Dalwallinu for Malleefowl Conservation' and Yongergnow In. for 'Conserving Malleefowl on Habitat Remnants in WA.'

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NRM officers involved in rivercare across the State recently had the opportunity to hear the latest research from Land and Water Australia’s National Riparian Lands Program. The two-day workshop, held in the Avon Catchment, was funded through Land and Water Australia, Department of Environment, Avon Catchment Council and Natural Heritage Trust.

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The Avon Catchment Council’s Priority Environmental Pests project has just released a Pest Nomination Form enabling community members, landholders and those living in the community to nominate the plant and animal pests that are impacting on priority environmental assets.

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The Top 10 environmental pests in the Avon region, including Cape Tulip, Feral Cats, and European Rabbits, have been determined, as a result of nominations from the Avon community.

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The Avon Catchment Council and Avon Natural Diversity Alliance combined forces to create an interactive and informative display at Dowerin Field Days, providing information and entertainment to all who entered.

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A new round of the Avon Regional Salinity Tender opened this week, providing farmers and landholders with the opportunity to tender for funds to implement management practices to address dryland salinity. A total of $350,000 is to be distributed.

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Bridal Creeper, regarded as one of the 20 worst weeds in Australia, is the target of an Avon Catchment Council (ACC) project that commenced recently working with Avon River Basin communities to map Bridal Creeper infestations and then together deciding the best method to control the weed locally and regionally.

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