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.
Bronwyn Humphreys and Peter Halliday contacted the Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management Inc (WNRM) to see how they could help with their dream of turning their paddock into a forest.
Recent sightings of rainbow lorikeets in Wheatbelt towns have confirmed that this invasive pest is making its way east and vigilance is needed if we are to ensure it doesn’t get established and cause even more damage to our unique Wheatbelt environment.
As part of our role of sharing knowledge with our community, we are highlighting some of the valuable information resources you can find in our Knowledge Hub on our web site.
When considering the Wheatbelt woodlands we automatically think of the towering trees such as Salmon Gums and York Gums that dominate the canopy but what happens at ground level is just as exciting.