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  • Water
    Clean Waterways Funding Keeps Educating for Our Future

    Another generation of Wheatbelt land managers stretched their legs at Boshack Outback in Bolgart this week to learn about the impacts of water quality on aquatic macroinvertebrates in the very special Wattening spring complex of wetlands.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    A Positive Step Forward in Our Reconciliation Journey

    Wheatbelt NRM is pleased to present our first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). We are committed to improving community action regarding biodiversity and sustainable agriculture in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, one of our most vulnerable drought-affected regions.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Carbon Farming opportunity: OPEN NOW! DPIRD’s Carbon for Farmers Voucher Program Round 2

    Get your application in by 29 September 2023 to secure up to $15,000 voucher funding to prepare a carbon farming project plan for your farm.

  • Healthy Environments
    Get Prepared for Fox Baiting Now

    A well-executed baiting program is the most cost-effective method of controlling fox populations to protect your valuable native fauna and livestock from predation.

  • Community Engagement
    At the forefront with industry

    Wheatbelt NRM attended a very positive and solution-focused Grower Group Alliance Bi-annual Forum for members and stakeholders.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Drought Resilience Kicks Off with Leadership Development

    Wheatbelt NRM has been selected by the Commonwealth Government as the project lead. We have commenced working with a group of community-based organisations that have each received funding to run a series of community-building activities.

  • Healthy Environments
    Wheatbelt NRM Native plant giveaway 2023

    The Wheatbelt NRM Healthy Environment team has had a great time over the past three weeks, chatting with the community and providing native plants to enrich local gardens.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Warralakin Planting for Carbon Positive

    The 185 hectare block next to the Chiddarcooping Nature Reserve in the Shire of Westonia, is owned by the not for profit conservation group Bush Block Guardians (BBG).

  • Healthy Environments
    Wheatbelt NRM August ’23 Tree Giveaway

    Wheatbelt NRM are running free tree events for community members who want to join us in improving the environment of the Wheatbelt.

  • Healthy Environments
    It’s time to welcome back the cheeky wheatbelt regulars

    Carnaby’s black-cockatoo are endangered, in part due to the extensive loss of mature eucalypts bearing suitable hollows and appropriately diverse feeding grounds.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Bushfire Recovery Enters Stage Two

    Round Two offers grants of up to $15,000 to replant, infill plant and/or fence remnant vegetation that is too badly damaged from fire to re-generate without support.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Community gets behind farmland restoration

    After applying for the Wheatbelt NRM Growing Ground Cover Small Grant last year, Nicole and Nathan Coleman, with neighbour and co-grant recipient Anita Davey, recently each had 500 seedlings arriving.