Healthy Environments

As the weather warms up and Spring is upon us, it’s time to spring into some action and protect the bushland on your property. With the many birds and animals that call your place home, it’s an important time of year for fox, cat, rabbit and weed control.

This season has the potential to be the second consecutive major eruption of feral mice plagues across Australia and therefore vital you consider adding the management of mice into your property management and harvest plans.

Black-cockatoos are being seen around the Wheatbelt and their behaviours can help to indicate whether they’re breeding and if so, what stage of the breeding cycle they’re in. Our black-cockatoo project requires us to work within close proximity to a known nesting area and we’ve been surveying areas to find nests. We need community help to complete the surveys.

If you’re looking to plant natives in 2023, now is the time to get your seedling orders in.

The Threatened Species Action Plan 2022-2032 maps a pathway to recovery for our nation’s threatened wildlife, spanning terrestrial, marine and freshwater environments. It presents a vision to drive practical on-ground efforts and identifies critical action for the recovery of threatened species and ecological communities guided by experts and the Australian public. Read the Action Plan.

WA Woodland Birds Team would like to be able to contact people that are interested to participate in the “Birds on Farms Project” in Western Australia. It could be either as a volunteer to carry out surveys, as someone that owns a property and wants to register their farm for surveys or if you are just interested to knowing more about the project. Read more or complete the form here.

 The Wheatbelt Regional NRM Strategy highlights that the majority of the Wheatbelt falls below the target of 30 % native vegetation cover required to maintain an ecologically viabl

Work is progressing on the first round of support to help farmers who lost remnant vegetation in the Wickepin and Corrigin fires last February. This round, the focus will be on protecting recovering remnant stands in cropping paddocks.

With harvest well and truly underway, keep an eye out for malleefowl, who are vulnerable to extinction, while you’re out in the paddock or driving through the Wheatbelt.

The Wheatbelt community and our Healthy Environments team have been hard at work this year looking after the region’s black-cockatoos, malleefowl,