Why is it critical to preserve natural coastal habitats?
Our coastal zone encompasses sand dunes, heathlands, bushland and wetlands (saline and fresh).
This vast coastal ecosystem supports a diverse range of plants, animals and birds so it’s really important to preserve these habitats.
Perth NRM works in partnership with all tiers of government, industry, academia and community groups on coastal management, monitoring and rehabilitation projects.
We provide a community leadership role in its region, to mobilise regional effort and ensure priority needs are addressed.
We connect community, environment and culture to deepen affection, encourage advocacy and build capacity for coastal conservation.
We facilitate alignment and coordination across coastal management stakeholder groups. We form strategic partnerships to maximise the value of shared knowledge, effort and investment in landscape scale coastal management.
We improve coastal resilience, protect biodiversity and support connectivity for a sustainable coastline.
How do we help?
Our work helps restore and preserve our coastline through some of these activities:
Seasonal planting days and preservation activities such as rehabilitation planting, weed removal, beach clean-ups, dune stabilisation and seed collection.
Training and on-ground activities to help increase community knowledge about how to identify coastal plants and animals, best coast care practices and improving biodiversity.
We work with volunteers, educational institutions, business and industry as well as local and state government agencies to promote awareness and enhance education about coastal preservation.
Planting for the future: engaging our youth
With an ageing demographic amongst environmental volunteers, we recognise the need for passionate young people to step up and continue the work.
Our youth projects focus on events such as Coastcare for Singles, Youth Planting Days and others to provide an opportunity for youth volunteers to contribute time and energy for improving the biodiversity values of coastal dunes.
Each event allows us to help plant of thousands of native plants such as Beach Spinifex and the Coastal Daisy Bush.
These re-vegetated dunes are more resilient to the forces of wind, waves and currents and help create additional habitat to attract native wildlife.
Our youth events are fun, energetic and productive. Local university students, youth groups and families come together rain, hail or shine to plant, share a cuppa and play a game of volleyball.
Adopt a Beach school programs
The Adopt A Beach program facilitates fun, memorable, curriculum linked learning experiences for students and their teachers. Developed and delivered by experienced environmental educators, Adopt A Beach can offer your school’s students an opportunity to value our fragile coastal and marine environments and engage in conservation.
Schools can participate in a blend of facilitated ‘in school’ experiences and ‘at beach’ excursions to local Perth Beaches.
We deliver this project, focused on partnerships and volunteering, through our regional funding under the National Landcare Programme.
An on-ground coordination and community support project, it targets aquatic and coastal systems (NLP Strategic Outcome 1) from Two Rocks to Rockingham, and supporting more than 25 community groups to maintain and restore coastal habitat in partnership with businesses and local governments.
Delivered by Perth NRM in partnership with City of Cottesloe and City of Kwinana (with support from all other coastal local governments), over 25 community groups and more than 7 businesses
Targets: 60ha of coastal environments improved/maintained/revegetated
1300 people involved in caring for their environment
If you would like to become involved in coastal restoration or find out more about volunteering please contact us for more information.
This project is supported by Perth NRM, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
