Healthy Environments

Our Malleefowl monitoring cameras don’t stop. Earlier this year, our cameras caught the rare sight of a Malleefowl chick’s first steps (have a look here if you haven’t seen it already).

Spring, autumn and winter are ideal seasons for cage trapping – particularly for feral cats.

In early August 2021, the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) released its most troubling report yet.

During the last breeding season, we were out and about surveying potential Black-Cockatoo breeding hollows as part of our collaboration with Birdlife.

In October 2020 we asked the question, “Does action to protect our eucalypt woodlands have any impact on the diversity of soil bacteria and mychorrizal fungi and can it be an indicator of woodland health?”.

Online publisher of research-based news, The Conversation, has recently released an article outlining 26 species of Australian butterfly that are at the greatest risk of extinction – and the Wheatbelt’s Arid Bronze Azure Butterfly is sitting at number seven.

In late June, the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment released its five-year progress report on their national Threatened Species Strategy.

In July 2020 we worked with a number of schools around the Wheatbelt for Planet Ark’s School Tree Day, a part of the National Tree Day celebrations.

The lead up to spring is a great time to get yourself prepared for feral animal control.

Federal Minister for Agriculture, David Littleproud, announced last week that plans to pay farmers for the biodiversity benefits that they deliver has taken another step forward with the Australian Government kick-starting the legislation process.