Healthy Environments

Time is running out for farmers in the Avon River Basin to apply for free saltbush and tree seedlings.

One of the most important biodiversity ‘hotspots’ in the WA Wheatbelt, is being targeted in an effort to conserve it. The Dale River and its surrounds lie on the western side of the Beverley and Brookton shires and runs into the York shire, totalling 76,000 hectares.

Bridal Creeper, regarded as one of the 20 worst weeds in Australia, is the target of an Avon Catchment Council (ACC) project that commenced recently working with Avon River Basin communities to map Bridal Creeper infestations and then together deciding the best method to control the weed locally and regionally.

A new round of the Avon Regional Salinity Tender opened this week, providing farmers and landholders with the opportunity to tender for funds to implement management practices to address dryland salinity. A total of $350,000 is to be distributed.

The Avon Catchment Council and Avon Natural Diversity Alliance combined forces to create an interactive and informative display at Dowerin Field Days, providing information and entertainment to all who entered.

The Top 10 environmental pests in the Avon region, including Cape Tulip, Feral Cats, and European Rabbits, have been determined, as a result of nominations from the Avon community.

The Avon Catchment Council’s Priority Environmental Pests project has just released a Pest Nomination Form enabling community members, landholders and those living in the community to nominate the plant and animal pests that are impacting on priority environmental assets.

NRM officers involved in rivercare across the State recently had the opportunity to hear the latest research from Land and Water Australia’s National Riparian Lands Program. The two-day workshop, held in the Avon Catchment, was funded through Land and Water Australia, Department of Environment, Avon Catchment Council and Natural Heritage Trust.

Two WA malleefowl applications have been funded under the round 8 TSN Community Grants Program! Congratulations to the North Central Malleefowl Preservation Group for ' Signage and Baiting in the Shire of Dalwallinu for Malleefowl Conservation' and Yongergnow In. for 'Conserving Malleefowl on Habitat Remnants in WA.'

We are all familiar with the natural beauty of the Salmon gum and York gum woodlands and Heathland with their wildflower display in spring.