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  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Soil CRC - Building Technical Capability in NRM and Grower Groups

    Announced recently by the Australian Government, the Soil CRC has been awarded funding and will deliver a project over the next two years that builds soil technical capacity and capability in grower groups, Landcare groups and NRM organisations, both within and outside of the CRC.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Farms selected to demonstrate ground cover options

    Wheatbelt NRMs Optimising fodder options in mixed farming project has identified the eight farms we will be working with over the next four years to demonstrate how ground cover options can be maximised for soil health and productivity gains.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Rangers give a helping hand to the Friends of the Dale River

    Successful in the recent Healthy Soils Healthy Rivers grants, the Friends of Dale River are planning a revegetation project adjacent to the Reserve Pool in Westdale.

  • Aboriginal NRM
    Baronga – traditional totems - a contract to look after country

    WA scientist Dr Stephen Hopper has recently suggested that one way in which we can all commit to caring for our environment is by adopting a Baronga, or Totem to the local Noongar people.

  • Community Engagement
    2019 call for PhD Scholarship

    The Call is designed to supplement the existing student places that have been made available through the first two rounds of research projects and provide the opportunity for additional projects relevant to the Programs and outputs of the Soil CRC

  • Healthy Environments
    Quairading Students are our newest Hotspot Heroes

    Recently the Healthy Environments team was in Quairading working with the year 5 class at Quairading DHS to plan for our latest Hotspot Hero book.

  • Water
    Lake Yealering works beat winter wet

    We are pleased to share that the engineering works at Lake Yealering which are part of the Royalties for Regions’ Living Lakes program have been completed.

  • Healthy Environments
    What can the Voluntary Carbon Market do for you?

    Do you have a site on your property that you want to revegetate but time/money etc keeps delaying it?

  • Healthy Environments
    Toodyay Nats lead the way for Bungalbin protection

    The 2019/20 State Budget bought some exciting news for the Toodyay Naturalist Club and many other community groups with the announcement of a budget commitment to the creation of a new National Park at the Helena Aurora Ranges (Bungalbin in the local language).

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Are you tackling Soil Health on your farm?

    Wheatbelt NRM is developing a proposal that if successful will include support for farmers who are seeking to improve the health of their soils through increasing soil carbon and biological activity.

  • Healthy Environments
    Virus spreading is a great way to tackle rabbits

    Last week the healthy Environments team released the latest strain of the Calici virus into a 430ha patch of bushland in Trayning.

  • Healthy Environments
    Nest Box success in Wongan Hills

    As part of last weeks “Where the wild things are” workshop in Wongan Hills the group visited a patch of bush where they saw how successful nest boxes can be in providing habitat for our threatened black cockatoos.