Month: March 2019

Water Hyacinth – Choking our Waterways

Mar 28, 2019 | E-News

Native to South America, floating water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a declared pest in Western Australia. It may look innocent, but it has become one of the most invasive weeds within our Peel-Harvey waterways. This species is considered to be a food source in...

Shorebird ID

Mar 28, 2019 | E-News

Every year we host the Shorebird Identification Workshop in January, this year was the 11th Workshop PHCC has run. The workshop was conducted over two days and involved a mix of classroom learning and excursions to the Peel-Yalgorup wetland system (Ramsar 482) to...

Say Goodbye to the Waders

Mar 28, 2019 | E-News

It’s that time again when the migratory shorebirds, otherwise known as waders,  begin their gruelling migratory journey north to the Arctic. The shorebirds will fly along the East-Asian Australasian Flyway to the Northern hemisphere stopping in Singapore, the...