This ‘3 Year Plan’ presents strategic direction to ensure Wheatbelt NRM effectively responds to national, state and regional NRM needs. This will be achieved by engaging our community to actively support and progress our strategic objectives. This ‘3 Year Plan’ is supported each year by an Operations Plan that sets out how resources will be allocated and utilised in progressing the strategic objectives in this document.
The Wheatbelt Regional NRM Strategy guides NRM investment priorities within the region. The regional community provided important guidance to the development of the strategy, which reflects their values and understanding of the environment they live in and know.
Australia has an incredible diversity of bird species, with 898 recorded, including vagrants or accidental visitors and introduced species. Of this total, Western Australia has 550 species, 17 of which are found only in Western Australia. The Avon River Basin has a remarkable 224 recorded species - over 25 percent of the national total.
The Living Lakes project aims to improve the water quality and volume in two of our Wheatbelt recreational lakes to provide opportunities for the local community through increased use and visitor numbers.
While the Wheatbelt NRM Noongar Boodja Rangers enjoy all their work it is really inspiring when they get to work on country at locations that are important to the Noongar community.
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’.
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.
Last week the Noongar Boodja Rangers again proved themselves to be an asset to the Wheatbelt community by helping the Friends of the Dale River tackle cape tulip as the group started preparations for next years revegetation project.
A discussion paper launched today is calling for ideas to modernise Australia’s Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) to support the next wave of innovation for Australian farmers.