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Three way partnership protects waterways and threatened species

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Healthy Environments

The Shire of Toodyay, Toodyay District High School cadets and Wheatbelt NRM have joined forces to protect and improve critical Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo habitat and a priority waterway (Boyagerring Brook) on reserved land adjacent to the Toodyay District High School this month.

The Shire of Toodyay worked with Wheatbelt NRM to revegetate 1 ha of Boyagerring Brook as part of the DWER Clean Waterways project. Twenty-seven TDHS cadets volunteered their time to do the planting to honour their community service commitments and connect with the wider community.

Remnant vegetation along the Boyagerring Brook is part of the threatened Wheatbelt woodlands ecological community and is known Carnaby’s cockatoo habitat with birds frequently observed roosting and feeding in the trees in and adjacent to the Boyagerring Brook and TDHS school campus this year.

Wheatbelt NRM earlier helped with the installation of a cockatoo nesting box on campus to compliment the planting as part of Wheatbelt NRM’s Black-Cockatoo project.

The planting links up with three other projects upstream on properties where the landholders are also passionate about protecting waterways and improving habitat for native wildlife.

 

This Wheatbelt NRM project is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

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