This ‘3 Year Plan’ presents strategic direction to ensure Wheatbelt NRM effectively responds to national, state and regional NRM needs. This will be achieved by engaging our community to actively support and progress our strategic objectives. This ‘3 Year Plan’ is supported each year by an Operations Plan that sets out how resources will be allocated and utilised in progressing the strategic objectives in this document.
The Wheatbelt Regional NRM Strategy guides NRM investment priorities within the region. The regional community provided important guidance to the development of the strategy, which reflects their values and understanding of the environment they live in and know.
Australia has an incredible diversity of bird species, with 898 recorded, including vagrants or accidental visitors and introduced species. Of this total, Western Australia has 550 species, 17 of which are found only in Western Australia. The Avon River Basin has a remarkable 224 recorded species - over 25 percent of the national total.
The Regional NRM Strategy for the Avon River Basin sets a threshold of 30% vegetation cover as the point below which the environment is fundamentally altered. Some areas of the Wheatbelt sit at just 6% remaining native vegetation.
Soil acidity, low organic carbon and dryland salinity were just a few of the soil issues facing Bruce Storer on his Cunderdin property when he embarked on his latest project with us.
Our Malleefowl monitoring cameras don’t stop. Earlier this year, our cameras caught the rare sight of a Malleefowl chick’s first steps (have a look here if you haven’t seen it already).
A biodiversity hotspot, a numbat with superpowers and a mission to protect the Wheatbelt’s unique plants and animals. These are the ingredients that make up Wheatbelt NRM’s newest community initiative, Hotspot Heroes.