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.
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?
The team at Wheatbelt NRM have been out and about surveying black-cockatoo nesting locations around the region. We are super excited to report back some of the nesting successes!
“It sounds like you’re just making this up, does that even exist? ….” Is the most common response from people when we talk about Wheatbelt malleefowl to those who are unfamiliar with this unique bird.
The end of the year also sees the end of our Matchstick Banksia work. Although it’s been a short project and impacted by COVID-19, we’ve managed to get a lot done.
Late last year we updated our community on the successes witnessed by the Wheatbelt NRM Healthy Environments team traversing the Wheatbelt for insights on the nesting behaviour of the black cockatoo.
They provide a valuable genetic resource and seed bank, contain rare and endangered species, provide shelter for livestock, wind protection for crops and mitigate land degradation such as erosion and salinity.
Birdlife Australia’s Great Cocky Count is returning this month and is a great reminder about the role the public plays to identify and monitor roosting sites of the black-cockatoo.