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.
Our friends at the South West Catchment Council are undertaking a project to evaluate landholder views on regenerative agriculture and whether it should be a priority for further research.
The Living Lakes project is working on Lake Ewlyamartup in Katanning to undertake engineering works to keep water in the lake for longer into the season and improve the water quality so the community can use this local and regional attraction for recreation over the summer.
Pet and feral cats together are killing over two billion reptiles, birds and mammals per year in Australia, and most of these animals are natives, according to a new book written by three of Australia’s leading environmental scientists.
The Regional NRM Strategy for the Avon River Basin identifies Soil Productivity as one of the big resource issues facing the region and Wheatbelt NRM has responded by making soil health the centre of our work in the agricultural sector.
The two-way benefits of partnership projects were demonstrated last week as our Noongar Budjar Rangers assisted the WA College of Agriculture, Cunderdin with a saltbush planting project.
Wheatbelt NRM is seeking submissions from a suitably qualified and experienced consultant to undertake an economic analysis to demonstrate the possible production benefits of implementing a systems approach to summer ground cover.
Wheatbelt NRM is seeking submissions from a suitably qualified consultant to carry out a whole farm planning process with identified farms across the Wheatbelt Region.
Wheatbelt NRM’s Leigh Whisson was on a trip last week to set up monitoring cameras so he can identify suitable sites to start looking for the elusive malleefowl.