Funding totalling $2.37 million from Western  Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) program has been announced to support 73 projects in WA during 2011-12.

 

Funding will go towards 14 projects across the metropolitan area, including revegetation of sections of Lake Claremont and the Canning River foreshores; riparian restoration of priority areas of the Swan and Helena rivers; and a project which aims to halt the infestation of the aggressive freshwater fish, the Pearl Cichlid in the Swan River catchment.

 

In the northern agricultural area, 12 projects have been funded including surveying the malleefowl population in a section of the Morawa Shire and regeneration work as part of the Chapman River Wildlife corridor.

 

Rangelands projects include year-round surveys in Roebuck Bay for dolphins and their prey, fencing to protect the coastal habitat of 80 Mile Beach, and native seed collection and propagation as part of a pilot project with local Aboriginal communities.

 

Wheatbelt projects include revegetation and restoration of a section of Southern Brook and the installing of a bore near the town of Quairading to help reduce salinity.

 

Twenty community projects funded along the South Coast focus on weed control, river and wetlands rehabilitation and biodiversity.

 

Funding is committed to 16 projects in the South-West, including Arum Lily eradication in Capel Tuart forests and reducing nutrients in Geographe Bay.

 

A summary of the projects, proponent and approved funds is available at http://www.nrm.wa.gov.au