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 Eucalypt Woodlands of the Wheatbelt are unique and important and Wheatbelt NRM is working with the Australian Governments Regional Lands Partnership to protect them.
In exciting news for the battle to control feral cats in WA a new bait has been approved for use by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.
As we speak to the community about our exciting Malleefowl work we often get the comment that people used to see Malleefowl but haven’t seen any for a few years now.
Missing the Great Cocky Count, working from home, or homeschooling and keen to escape the house? Or are you just interested in contributing to a strong future for one of the Wheatbelt’s threatened species.