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The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) will be inviting Expressions of Interest for their NEW $15M Carbon Farming & Land Restoration Program soon. The Program aims to unlock the potential of carbon farming in the South West agricultural zone and enable rural businesses to establish carbon farming projects that deliver priority environmental, community and economic...
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South West Catchments Council is collaborating with the Undalup Association to deliver a series of workshops teaching traditional methods of fire management that reduce fire risk to local wildlife and enhance native bushland. Wadandi/Pibulman Custodian Iszaac (Waalitj) Webb will explain how the traditional owners of the South West region...
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A new project aiming to employ and train local people to gather native seeds for vital habitat restoration has been successfully rolled out in the South West of WA. South West Catchments Council, in collaboration with Leschenault Catchment Council, has employed and trained 10 eager seed-collectors through the State...
The Australian Government’s much-anticipated Carbon + Biodiversity Pilot launched on 12 April, allowing farmers in South West WA to be paid for planting biodiverse native trees on their land for the first time. The $23.5 million Pilot, developed by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and the...
A recently completed wildlife monitoring snapshot has identified Wellington National Park as important habitat for several threatened mammal species. Results suggest native species populations are stable and widely distributed across the park, whereas introduced predator populations are in low densities and limited in range. These positive results emphasise the...
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Have you seen this fluffy shrub in your area? If so, you may have a cotton bush infestation and we’d love to know about it! Cotton bush is a highly invasive weed which poses a threat to food systems, the natural environment and health. South West Catchments Council, along...
Professor Graeme Samuel’s independent review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999 was publicly released in January 2021 to strong support from the natural resource management sector. The review presents compelling evidence that the Act, in its current form, is ineffective at enabling protection of Australia’s...
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on February 2nd, as this date marks the anniversary of the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar, Iran in 1971 – 50 years ago today. The Convention aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands and conserve those that...
South West Catchments Council participated in the annual Dolphin Festival family event on Saturday 17th October 2020, holding a stall to promote western ringtail possum conservation and related projects in the Greater Bunbury Region. This year stall visitors could enter a draw to win a ‘possum salad bar plant’...
By Stephen Newbey. SWCC and Birdlife Australia recently ran two ran two cockatoo training workshops, one in conjunction with Katanning Landcare, and the other with Blackwood Basin Group. The training included: How to identify potential cockatoo nesting sites; Survey methods of nesting sites; How to use ‘Cocky Cam’ to...
Matching stocking rate to carrying capacity 4 August, 2021
Optimising your stocking rate is closely linked to...
Reducing pesticide susceptibility with IPM 4 August, 2021
Pesticides are the backbone of crop protection sys...
Carbon Farming Methods Have Real Benefits 30 July, 2021
By Peter Clifton, Regional Agriculture Landcare Fa...
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