Healthy Environments

Does the rat poison come out as soon as you spot a rat or mice problem at your place?

Six per cent of land within the Avon River Basin is impacted by salinity. However, restored saline riparian zones can become a valuable resource.

Water troughs on your property can be a fatal hazard to native wildlife including birds, amphibians and marsupials.

Months of monitoring malleefowl mounds in the Wheatbelt has delivered a moment of pure joy, as Wheatbelt NRM captured a chick hatching for the first time on our cameras.

Native animals of the Wheatbelt can come in all shapes and sizes and we get reports all the time asking us about things people have found around their place.

We came across a story published in The Washington Post in 2018 that celebrated the life of a small brown spider that lived its life under a jam tree in the WA Wheatbelt.

Last week our staff were at Mukinbudin District High School to work with the students as part of our Enviro Stories program.

In October 2020 we asked the question, “Does action to protect our eucalypt woodlands have any impact on the diversity of soil bacteria and mychorrizal fungi and can it be an indicator of woodland health?”.

Online publisher of research-based news, The Conversation, has recently released an article outlining 26 species of Australian butterfly that are at the greatest risk of extinction – and the Wheatbelt’s Arid Bronze Azure Butterfly is sitting at number seven.

In late June, the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment released its five-year progress report on their national Threatened Species Strategy.