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.
For the last 20 years, Renata has been owner and manager of “The Lakes Cattle Company”. She has employed sustainable practices such as rotational grazing and the fencing and tree planting of salt affected areas.
With a touch of nostalgia the Wheatbelt NRM staff and Board of Directors bid farewell to Dr Karl O’Callaghan who guided the organisation through significant paradigm changes and restructures as it navigated new funding systems and business innovation opportunities.