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  • Community Engagement
    Industry-funded grants for wild dog control are now open

    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
    Mustering momentum in the Wheatbelt: Livestock is back on the agenda

    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
    Help is at hand for farmers in need

    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
    Why is the Matchstick Banksia so important?

    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?

  • Climate
    State of the Climate 2018 – BOM and CSIRO

    State of the Climate 2018 is the latest biennial snapshot of climate change in Australia. +

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    1000 people wave the Red Card

    Wheatbelt NRM’s overarching strategy is to support the community to get active in improving the environment of the Wheatbelt, but few of our activities attract the participants and get results like Red Card.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Salinity – New Directions

    A report (link) this year from the Auditor General’s Office has put salinity back on the agenda for WA.

  • Healthy Environments
    Matchstick Banksia – protecting the final 500

    As part of the National Landcare Program Wheatbelt NRM has been set the task of urgently acting to protect the threatened species - Matchstick Banksia, Banksia cuneata, also known as the Quairading Banksia.

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    Mutton no longer dressed as lamb

    Mixed farmers in the Wheatbelt Region are set to benefit from recent changes proposed to the Australian definition of lamb by the Sheepmeat Council of Australia.

  • Community Engagement
    What a year we’ve had ....

    2018 has been a tumultuous year for Wheatbelt NRM.

  • Water
    Marketing and Tourism consultant needed for the Living Lakes project

    Wheatbelt NRM is seeking submissions from suitably qualified consultants to deliver Destination Marketing Plans for Lakes Yealering and Ewlyamartup as part of Stage 3 of the Living Lakes project.

  • Healthy Environments
    Wheatbelt icons a focus for door knocking

    The iconic Carnaby’s cockatoo, Red-tailed phascogale, Numbat and Chuditch are all threatened species that call the critically endangered Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt (a Threatened Ecological Community) home.