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.
Ten years ago the Noongar Boodjar Rangers program began, aiming to employ Aboriginal men and women on Country caring for the land and its unique flora and fauna.
A dose of good advice goes a long way when tackling difficult revegetation sites like saline waterways. Supported by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulations’ Clean Waterways funding and Wheatbelt NRM, 14 community members took advantage of the opportunity to learn from two of the wheatbelt’s most experienced and knowledgeable native seed propagators in Rob and Beth Boase.
Landcare award nominations are now open to recognise and celebrate the outstanding Landcare heroes from our Wheatbelt community leading sustainable agricultural practices, environmental protection, conservation of land, waterways and biodiversity.
The project was designed to establish what and where introduced dung beetle species have been established across the Wheatbelt and to plan for filling gaps with species that will process animal dung in all seasons.
During the past year, Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management finalised its commitment to the 2018–23 Australian Government’s National Landcare Program (NLP) completing ten projects that have been focused on protecting natural resources of our region.
Wheatbelt NRM’s CEO Dr Karl O’Callaghan, interviewed on several radio segments at the end of last month highlighting the importance of citizen science and implications for the Corella project.
Wheatbelt NRM continued their upskilling journey on all things natural capital by attending the recent Accounting for Nature Training workshop held at Muresk Institute.