Healthy Environments

Pet and feral cats together are killing over two billion reptiles, birds and mammals per year in Australia, and most of these animals are natives, according to a new book written by three of Australia’s leading environmental scientists.

Last week the Wheatbelt NRM team got their hands dirty and reminded ourselves about why we do the work we do by spending a day tree planting with the Noongar Budjar Rangers.

The Wheatbelt NRM Healthy Environments team are here to work with and support the community to look after the environmental assets on their land.

Twenty-eight year 5/6 students from Toodyay DHS participated in a small tree planting event on Planet Arc’s National Tree Day this July.

Though they maybe the size of a domestic chicken we really don’t want to make a meal of the iconic Wheatbelt malleefowl.

The woodlands of the WA Wheatbelt have been preferentially cleared since settlement to make way for prime agricultural land.

There are 160 naturally occurring eucalypts in the central Wheatbelt region, of which 32 are cultivated for various uses, including revegetation programs, oil extraction, floristry, and ornamental purposes.

Wheatbelt NRM has been very busy over the last couple of weeks visiting a number of Wheatbelt towns to chat to people and provide free trees to residents.

The WA State emblem – the Numbat, is a Wheatbelt native and has been fighting a battle for survival and only a few years ago was on the edge of the ‘extinction pit’.

The Carnabys black cockatoos have returned to the Wheatbelt for their breeding season.