Healthy Environments

WA farmers have begun a massive assault on foxes, which cause an estimated $200 million nation-wide in damage each year.

Landholders and interested community members will have the chance to learn how to better look after their local creeks and waterways through a series of workshops.

Wheatbelt farmers Kath and John Cousins want to leave a legacy for their children that isn’t a landscape of salt.

When Merredin farming family Pep and Jules Alvaro were first approached to put their 53 hectare bush block under a covenant they were reluctant.

Nearly half a million more trees will be planted in the Avon River Basin thanks to an incentive program from the Avon Catchment Council.

Scientists say they’ve found new populations of threatened trapdoor spiders in the Avon River Basin. Trapdoor spiders are one of the oldest in the arachnid family but are under threat from factors including habitat loss, salinity and uncontrolled grazing.

Rare and vulnerable native plants and animals will be given a better chance of survival thanks to a new Avon Catchment Council grants program.

A wet July has helped Wheatbelt landholders plant one million trees thanks to incentive programs run by the Avon Catchment Council.

Camera traps are similar to security lights in that they are triggered by moving, warm objects.

The secret life of some of the Wheatbelt’s rarest and interesting native animals will be on display at this year’s Dowerin Field Days.