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  • Business Innovations
    Project Opportunity – Natural Capital as an asset class

    An innovative project is coming to the Wheatbelt that will prepare Western Australia for the paradigm shift in agricultural systems by understanding the potential of Natural Capital production landscapes as an asset class.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    The benefits of keeping sheep

    With seasonal conditions and market forces reducing confidence in the sheep industry, there are still benefits to soil health from incorporating sheep within a farming system.

  • Business Innovations
    Navigating Carbon Contracts

    The Carbon Market Institute has developed helpful Carbon Contract Clauses to help navigate a win-win arrangement and develop solid project partnerships. If you’re a landholder in discussions with a carbon service provider or carbon project proponent and wanting to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) on your land, check out this valuable resource.

  • Healthy Environments
    WA Black-Cockatoos: How You Can Help

    Endangered WA black-cockatoos will soon be returning to the Wheatbelt to breed and feed over winter and spring. These animals are still declining in numbers and need our help to ensure their ongoing survival. Please complete this survey when you see black-cockatoos to help us gain a greater understanding of their habits and numbers.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Reconciliation is everyone’s business

    As part of National Reconciliation Week our staff took part in an art activity alongside staff from Northam Senior High School. Wheatbelt NRM program teams were given the opportunity to tell their work stories through Aboriginal art symbols.

  • Being prepared is the best response

    Responding to heat stress and preparing for the future are part of Wheatbelt NRM’s increasing role in emergency preparedness activities across the region.
    Wheatbelt NRM recently completed the first Biodiversity & Agricultural Natural Capital Emergency Preparedness & Response Plan for the Avon River Basin which will be available soon.

    As part of being prepared, you’re invited to meet our Board of Directors for a free tree giveaway in Merredin next Thursday 20th June outside the Merredin Community Resource Centre 10:30-11:30am.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Tending the Anzacs’ Graves

    ANZAC day 2024, and they are still not forgotten.

    Leading up to ANZAC day 2024, WNRM’s Noongar Boodjar Rangers spent time ensuring the Northam cemetery was neat and tidy, with special care taken on the graves of those who had served our country in the armed forces.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    How does Australia achieve a 43% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2030?

    The SAF role, which was formerly known as RALF (Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator), is forging new facilitation pathways. Last week Wheatbelt NRM Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator and project delivery officer Aimee Ray joined SAF representatives from other NRM groups around Australia to learn about the role’s new directions.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Carbon Farming Survey

    You are invited to participate in a PhD research project (reference no 2023-204) on “Carbon farming: role and implications for broadacre agriculture”. As a part of this research, an online survey is being conducted to gauge farmer’s perceptions of carbon farming.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Cricket Star amongst us!

    Aboriginal NRM project officer and Rangers leader Jermaine Davis recently coached the WA Indigenous Men’s Cricket Team to victory in the National Indigenous Cricket Championships.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Do you have what it takes to be a Change-maker?

    Workshops will be held 10-11 June in Bruce Rock and 25-26 July in Merredin. The 2-day workshops aim to foster self-awareness, community engagement, resilience, leadership skills, and the ability to create positive change while considering diverse perspectives and community well-being.

  • Healthy Environments
    It’s Reveg. Prep Time!

    With planting projects scheduled from June onwards, now is the time to finalise your preparation for revegetation sites.
    In drier than usual seasons good site preparation is even more critical for successful seedling establishment.
    Please consult this how-to guide for some tips to maximise the survival rate of your precious native seedlings.