This Regional Land Partnership project continues our work to manage threats and restore habitat at a local scale. Through local action we aim to support regional and landscape scale benefits and improve condition, ecological resilience, connectivity and climate change adaptability for our threatened ecosystems.
Stage 2 enables Perth NRM to work with community groups to protect and improve the condition of listed Threatened Ecological Communities including ‘Banksia Woodlands’, ‘Clay Pans’, ‘Shrub lands and Woodlands of the Eastern Swan Coastal Plain (SCP Community 20c)’, ‘Corymbia calophylla – Kingia australis woodlands on heavy soils of the Swan Coastal Plain (SCP Community 3a)’, ‘Gingin Ironstone’, ‘Coastal Saltmarsh’, ‘Assemblages of plants and invertebrate animals of tumulus springs’ and ‘Shrublands and woodlands on Muchea limestone’.
If you are interested in seeing the work being achieved by the community, you can visit a variety of bushland reserves in Perth including Lake Wannamal/ Mogumber Nature Reserve, Paganoni Swamp Reserve, Forrestdale Lake Nature Reserve, Bullsbrook Nature Reserve, Greater Brixton Street Wetlands, and Ashfield Flats.
The project also runs capacity building events and community workshops to facilitate volunteerism, host site tours, and improve community awareness on project activities. As part of Stage 2, project activities delivered through direct community action include vegetation condition assessments, feral animal control, weed mapping and treatment, fencing, dieback management, seed collection, debris removal, and restoration activities.
Perth NRM will deliver the project in partnership with:
Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group
South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare
City of Swan
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
Threatened Ecological Communities: Stage One
Threatened Ecological Communities (TEC) in the Swan NRM region, Stage 1 was 12 months of intensive work to lay the foundation for our Stage 2 project. The project was focussed on better understanding and managing threats to restore habitat at a local scale and support regional and landscape scale benefits of improved condition, ecological resilience, connectivity and climate change adaptability.
The project established baseline vegetation condition, fauna presence and weed distribution data to target future work in Stage 2. We collaborated with the community to plan training and workshops to improve community awareness, understanding, and capacity for best practice in TEC management.
Perth NRM worked with community groups worked to protect and improve 1644.91 hectares of TEC. We worked to improve the condition of listed TEC’s including ‘Banksia Woodlands’, ‘Clay Pans’, ‘Shrub lands and Woodlands of the Eastern Swan Coastal Plain (SCP Community 20c)’, ‘Corymbia calophylla – Kingia australis woodlands on heavy soils of the Swan Coastal Plain (SCP Community 3a)’, ‘Gingin Ironstone’, ‘Coastal Saltmarsh’, ‘Assemblages of plants and invertebrate animals of tumulus springs’ and ‘Shrublands and woodlands on Muchea limestone’.
Together we worked across a variety of bushland reserves in Perth including Lake Wannamal/ Mogumber Nature Reserve, Paganoni Swamp Reserve, Forrestdale Lake Nature Reserve, Bullsbrook Nature Reserve and Greater Brixton Street Wetlands. From 2018-2019 the project achieved:
10 baseline data was collected to inform Stage 2.
4 community workshops focussing on the management of threatened ecological communities.
6 community engagement field days at several project sites.
4 km of access control to protect priority TEC sites.
1157 hectares of pest animal control to minimise their impact on TEC sites.
795 hectares of debris (litter) management to clean up TEC sites.
875 hectares of disease management to protect TEC sites for Phytopthora cinnamomi (dieback) infestations.
316.1 hectares of weed control to protect priority TEC sites.
106 days of seed collection in preparation for revegetation activities in Stage 2.
Perth NRM delivered the project in partnership with:
Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group
South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare
World Wide Fund for Nature
City of Swan
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
Perth NRM received support for this project through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
This project is supported by Perth NRM, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
Partners
We acknowledge and appreciate the support of all our partners, supporters, funding bodies and sponsors.
