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  • Healthy Environments
    Before and Afters

    Back in 2011 as part of the Wheatbelt NRM Community Small grants the York District High School helped to revegetate an area of Mt Brown in the York townsite.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Noongar Budjar Rangers – Revegetation for the future

    The Wheatbelt NRM Noongar Budjar Rangers have partnered with a leading carbon entity to assist with the revegetation of areas of unproductive farming land in the Wheatbelt.

  • Healthy Environments
    Count a cocky or two to help save our endangered species

    In south west WA black cockatoos are an integral part of the landscape, harbingers of rain, tripping on half chewed nuts and drowning out occasional conversations with their raucous banter. But due to habitat loss, the Carnaby, Baudin and forest Red-tails are now endangered and need our help if future generations are to enjoy them too.

  • Operations
    Industry-funded grants for wild dog control are now open

    The Sheep and Goat Industry Funding Scheme (IFS) Management Committee is inviting groups and organisations to apply for grants to develop and/or deliver on-ground wild dog control measures.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Mustering momentum in the Wheatbelt: Livestock is back on the agenda

    While Australia was built on the sheep’s back in recent times Wheatbelt farmers have increasingly moved out of stock into crop-only systems.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Help is at hand for farmers in need

    WA has been celebrating Wheatbelt’s record harvest in a year where many farmers in the eastern states have been battling the most severe droughts in recorded memory.

  • Healthy Environments
    Why is the Matchstick Banksia so important?

    With fewer than 2,500 mature plants in the wild, the remaining Matchstick Banksia populations are severely fragmented and continuing to decline in size. the EPBC Act, but what exactly does that mean?

  • Climate
    State of the Climate 2018 – BOM and CSIRO

    State of the Climate 2018 is the latest biennial snapshot of climate change in Australia. +

  • Sustainable Industries
    1000 people wave the Red Card

    Wheatbelt NRM’s overarching strategy is to support the community to get active in improving the environment of the Wheatbelt, but few of our activities attract the participants and get results like Red Card.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Salinity – New Directions

    A report (link) this year from the Auditor General’s Office has put salinity back on the agenda for WA.

  • Healthy Environments
    Matchstick Banksia – protecting the final 500

    As part of the National Landcare Program Wheatbelt NRM has been set the task of urgently acting to protect the threatened species - Matchstick Banksia, Banksia cuneata, also known as the Quairading Banksia.

  • Sustainable Industries
    Mutton no longer dressed as lamb

    Mixed farmers in the Wheatbelt Region are set to benefit from recent changes proposed to the Australian definition of lamb by the Sheepmeat Council of Australia.