Back from the Edge
Investment: $4 135 862
Delivery organisations: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) & Department of Environment and Conservation
On-ground achievements
- Recruitment trials for 5 species; translocations planted for 4 species; monitoring & maintenance of translocation sites of critically endangered and endangered species; seed collected for 5 species
- Fencing for 12 sites (9 rare flora species); weed control at 22 sites, rabbit control baiting at 8 sites
- 4km of fencing protecting 80 ha of critical Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo nesting habitat from grazing
- Lake Bryde Threatened Ecological Community monitoring, hydrological surveys & recruitment trials
- Twelve Carnaby's Black- Cockatoo nesting sites monitored for breeding effort over summer 2008/09
- 4 damaged Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo nesting hollows repaired
Community engagement and capacity building
- Employed two local community members in Wongan Hills to manage threatened flora species
- Threatened flora maps and management guidelines for 24 LGAs.
- Conservation plans for trapdoor spider species, black-flanked rock wallaby, heath mouse, declining Wheatbelt birds, red-tailed phascogale and western spiny-tailed skink
- 26 monitoring transects at 7 sites for key trapdoor spider populations
- ‘Avon's Most Wanted' brochures mailed to landowners in the ARB
- ‘Avon's Most Wanted' posters for all schools in the ARB; presentations to school and community groups
- 17 threatened species profiles published by regional press
- Back From The Edge community wall calendars; 'Have You Seen This Plant?'
- Flora ID workshops - Mukinbudin, Wongan Hills
- 2007 East Yorkrakine SpiderBlitz, 2007 Westonia BioBlitz, 2008 Corrigin BioBlitz
- Field days attended including the Newdegate Field Day and the Wagin Woolorama
- Nest box building workshops with the four groups and 50 participants
- 9 training and awareness raising events involving 180 participants
- Introductory "Red-tailed phascogale Nest box" presentation at the Narrogin Agricultural College
Publications
- Lullfitz, B., Konnur, A., Alderton, J, Joliffe, D. and Squire, M. (2008) Threatened and poorly known flora of the Yilgam Region, Department of Environment and Conservation, Bentley, WA
- Johnston, W., Thomas, S, Dougall, S., Hamersley, C, Phillips, L. and Smith, I. (2008) Threatened, poorly known and other flora of Wongan Hills, Department of Environment and Conservation, Bentley, WA
- Bamford, M., Inglis, R. and Watson, K. (2009) Mammals of the Avon Region, Department of Environment and Conservation, Bentley, WA
- Collins, J. (2009) Threatened flora of the Western Central Wheatbelt, Department of Environment and Conservation, Bentley, WA
Did you know?
- As a result of the ‘Avon's Most Wanted' initiative many new populations of rare and threatened species were discovered on private land including ten new populations of Western Spiny-Tailed Skinks
