Healthy Environments

The abundance and richness of our Wheatbelt species were a ‘Big Resource Issue’ identified in the Regional NRM Strategy for the Avon River Basin (www.nrmstrategy.com.au/about-strategy) and a new database shows our community was right to be concerned.

Recently we advertised for Expressions of Interest from landholders who had a special patch of Eucalypt woodland they wanted help to protect and recover.

Thank you truckies, for reporting malleefowl!

There are over 70 different sub-communities of the Critically Endangered Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt ecological community.

We know feral cats are an enormous problem for our native wildlife, with the Threatened Species Hub saying they kill more than three billion animals per year.

Trent Tyler has a farm property in Wyalkatchem that abuts the Korrelocking Nature Reserve which is a 250ha reserve home to mature Salmon Gum and Gimlet woodlands and is a sanctuary for kangaroos and other forms of animal and bird life.

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy has today commenced a new inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats in Australia.

Not long after Graeme and Judy Garlick purchased this property at Pingrup, a friend, Anne Rick, who is a local botanist approached Judy and told her that there was a rare species of Acacia (Acacia lanuginophylla) on their newly acquired land.

Last year the Northam Scout Group built nest boxes and installed them on their Northam bush block.

The Shire of Toodyay, Toodyay District High School cadets and Wheatbelt NRM have joined forces to protect and improve critical Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo habitat and a priority waterway (Boyagerring Brook) on reserved land adjacent to the Toodyay District High School this month.