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.
Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management (WNRM) is excited to announce it will be the lead organisation for the Central Wheatbelt region to assist communities plan and prepare for a drying climate by activating funds through the Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Initiative – Community Impact Program.
With the upcoming spray season nearly upon us we thought it would be a good idea to do a “refresher” course and ensure the safety of our Rangers plus give them the confidence and skills they need when applying and handling chemicals.
Carbon Farming site assessments service available. Wheatbelt NRM is providing consultant services for potential sequestration projects across the Wheatbelt for landholders who received vouchers under the State Government’s Carbon for Farmers Voucher Program.
We kicked off January 2022 with the new Aboriginal NRM Action plan, Koort Boodjar Mia Boodjar (my Heartland my Homeland), and Steph, the new Project Coordinator, started with the team.
Our 2023 calendar has just arrived hot off the press (order your copy here). Each year we pick a theme unique to our special corner of the world, and this year we wanted to highlight an often overlooked but crucial link in our ecosystem: the noble Tree.
Our team was lucky enough to attend the 8th National NRM conference a few weeks back, hosted by our friends at South West Catchments Council in Margaret River.
Wheatbelt NRM was proud to have the opportunity to host the National Soil Advocate the Hon. Dr Penny Wensley AC on a field trip to Masonville Farm in East Brookton with Kane and Paula Page in late September.
Twenty landholders across the Wheatbelt have secured small grants of up to $2,500 to plant fodder and increase groundcover on their mixed farming properties as part of the National Landcare Program funded project, Optimising Fodder Options in Mixed Farming Systems.
Wheatbelt’s 2022 soil health champion, Rob Hetherington of Lake Camm, believes that soil health is the backbone of agriculture, irrespective of where you are in the world.
If you didn’t make it to Talkin’ Soil Health held in August in York, you missed out, as it was a sell-out at 200 participants.Feedback has been that it was not just the biggest, but also the best event held yet.‘Building Resilience from the Sub