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  • Healthy Environments

    Wheatbelt NRM is progressing our new biodiversity conservation project as part of the National Landcare Program.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    Some farmers are seeing opportunities where previously there were only problems as they adapt to salinity constraints on their farm.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    The Farm Hub website was recently launched by the National Farmers’ Federation. It is an initiative resulting from the National Drought Summit held in October 2018 that brings together all sources of farmer support services in one, easy to navigate, website.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    We are seeking the assistance of an experienced professional to provide technical assistance and advice on the project.

  • Community Engagement

    Wheatbelt NRM project signs are still appearing all over this vast region that we call home.

  • Healthy Environments

    Back in 2011 as part of the Wheatbelt NRM Community Small grants the York District High School helped to revegetate an area of Mt Brown in the York townsite.

  • Aboriginal NRM

    The Wheatbelt NRM Noongar Budjar Rangers have partnered with a leading carbon entity to assist with the revegetation of areas of unproductive farming land in the Wheatbelt.

  • Healthy Environments

    In south west WA black cockatoos are an integral part of the landscape, harbingers of rain, tripping on half chewed nuts and drowning out occasional conversations with their raucous banter. But due to habitat loss, the Carnaby, Baudin and forest Red-tails are now endangered and need our help if future generations are to enjoy them too.

  • Community Engagement

    The Sheep and Goat Industry Funding Scheme (IFS) Management Committee is inviting groups and organisations to apply for grants to develop and/or deliver on-ground wild dog control measures.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    While Australia was built on the sheep’s back in recent times Wheatbelt farmers have increasingly moved out of stock into crop-only systems.

  • Sustainable Agriculture

    WA has been celebrating Wheatbelt’s record harvest in a year where many farmers in the eastern states have been battling the most severe droughts in recorded memory.

  • Healthy Environments

    With fewer than 2,500 mature plants in the wild, the remaining Matchstick Banksia populations are severely fragmented and continuing to decline in size. the EPBC Act, but what exactly does that mean?