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  • Healthy Environments
    Farmers revegetating the Wheatbelt

    Nineteen landholders across the Wheatbelt have successfully received funding through Wheatbelt NRM, supported by the Australian Government’s Twenty Million Trees and National Landcare Program.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Sandalwood on Sandy Ridges

    Farming in the Shire of Muckinbudin in the north east Wheatbelt, can be challenging at times particularly on the sandy ridges which are prone to wind erosion.

  • Governance
    Community Stewardship Grants open with support available

    The Western Australian Government 2018-19 Community Stewardship Grants are now open and Wheatbelt NRM is supporting our community to apply.

  • Governance
    WA Feral Cat Symposium Subsidy recipients

    Wheatbelt NRM supported 7 community members to attend the WA Feral Cat Symposium in Mandurah on 31 May 2018.

  • Healthy Environments
    11.5 Kg Cat Captured in Koorda

    It is evident that there are some massive feral cats out in our Wheatbelt, particularly in the shire of Koorda.

  • Climate
    National Strategy for Environmental-Economic Accounting

    On 27 April 2018 the Meeting of Commonwealth, state and territory environment ministers endorsed a strategy to deliver a common national approach to environmental-economic accounting in Australia.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Wheatbelt NRM Collaborating Nationally in the Soil CRC

    The Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils (Soil CRC) has been established to provide farmers across Australia with the knowledge and tools they need to make complex and difficult management decisions about their soils.

  • Operations
    Cunderdin Bat Night - A Hands-On Community Event

    Wheatbelt NRM staff, along with bat enthusiast, Joe Tonga, visited Cunderdin recently to talk to the community about the way bats live, their biology and their importance to the environment.

  • Water
    Living Lakes Update

    We are now over 2 months into construction for Living Lakes – Stage 3 at Lake Ewlyamartup. The conditions have been favourable to date; however we are anticipating works will slow during winter.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Students learn how technology is transforming agriculture

    More than 190 students from nine Western Australian secondary schools attended this year's Muresk Institute's Drone versus Dog trials.

  • Healthy Environments
    Rehabilitated bushland attracts thirsty Western Pygmy Possum

    A Western Pygmy Possum has recently been found by a landholder south of Cunderdin, in a patch of bush he has been rehabilitating as part of a project funded by Wheatbelt NRM.

  • Governance
    The Development of Our New 3 Year Plan

    The Wheatbelt NRM Board met in April to kick off the development of our 3 Year Plan for 2018/19 – 2021/22.