A Healthy Catchment

A World for Woodlands

Supporting community to protect Banksia and Tuart Woodland Threatened Ecological Communities. This project will work with community, land managers and First Nations Australians to develop and implement actions to help meet Conservation...

Restoring Ramsar 482 Wetlands and Waterways

The project will improve the understanding, wise use and condition of >1000 ha of wetland habitat of the 26,530 ha Peel-Yalgorup 482 Ramsar site and lower reaches of the Bilya Maadjit (Murray River), Waangaamaap Bilya (Serpentine...

Case Study 49: Banksia Dieback

Dieback is a plant disease affecting hundreds of thousands of hectares of natural bushland and forest in the south-west of Western Australia. It can have devastating impacts for Banksia Woodland Threatened Ecological Community, due the...

Defending Dryandra – Feral Hotspots Project

Feral cats have played a significant role in 27 of the 47 extinctions of Australian fauna. They are recognised as a potential threat to 74 mammals including numbats and woylies both of which can be found in Dryandra Woodland National Park...

Hotham-Williams Warlang Boodja Project

Warlang Boodja means ‘Healthy Country’ in the local Noongar language. Restoration of our rivers is intricately linked to their Noongar history because the cultural significance of natural assets in the Hotham-Williams Catchment is...

Case Study 42: Worms in Windrows

Runnymede farm, situated in the Uduc region near Harvey, is owned and operated by Blythe and her partner Gregg. They have a total of 500 acres of land and currently run 400 chickens, producing pastured eggs, and 400 head of grass-fed beef....

Protecting WA Black Cockatoos

This project will support private landholders in the Peel-Harvey Catchment to manage and improve the habitat values of black cockatoo nesting and feeding sites, including the Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt and...

Greening the Farm after a Fire

Wildfires can have a devastating impact on farms, farming communities and natural resources. The Waroona-Yarloop Fire of 2016 was no exception and burnt 33,000 ha of farmlands in the Peel-Harvey Catchment, causing many landholders to...

A world for woodlands

Reducing threats to Banksia Woodland Threatened Ecological Communities through land stewardship. This 5 year project will work with community and land managers to develop guiding actions to help meet Conservation Advice objectives.

Wetlands and People

Wetlands and People, a community restoring the Ecological Character of the Peel-Yalgorup System’s wetlands, will improve over 1,000 ha of Ramsar habitat. On-ground priority actions will address key threats, and associated direct and...

Numbat Neighbourhood

Supporting people to protect the vulnerable Noombat wioo (Numbat, Myrmecobius fasciatus) in the wild. Noombat wioo (Numbat: Myrmecobius fasciatus) is a small unique marsupial found only in Australia. It is culturally significant to Noongar...

Managing bushland on school sites

Bushland on school sites can provide a special learning environment for students, and at the same time, a management challenge for school communities. In North Dandalup, 80 km from Perth, the local primary school has one such bushland...

Farmers for Fauna

Feral cats endanger at least 142 native Australian species, more than one third of our threatened mammals, reptiles, frogs and birds. Foxes have had a similarly devastating impact nationwide. In the Farmers for Fauna Project, the PHCC...

ARC Linkage Project

This project is a collaborative scientific venture involving more than twenty researchers and land managers from four universities, two State Government departments, two local governments and PHCC. It investigates the links between...

Wetland Yarns

In the Wetland Yarns Project the PHCC brings together Noongar People, scientists and artists to share their knowledge and stories about wetlands with school students. The Project was developed and trialled in 2017 by the PHCC and included...

Parkfield Lake Nutrient Management Basin

The Parkfield Lake remodeled an unsightly, degraded artificial lake that suffered from flooding and algal blooms into an attractive nutrient stripping wetland with surrounding parklands removing an estimated 75kg of phosphorus per year. ...

Restoration of WA’s mighty Murray River

Most river reaches in the Peel-Harvey Catchment are in a poor condition after more than a century of uncontrolled stock access, riverbank erosion and weed invasion. With this in mind as part of its Rivers to Ramsar Project, the PHCC...

Reinvigorating Landcare in the Hotham-Williams

In 2013 representatives of the Hotham-Williams community approached the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council seeking assistance to reinvigorate landcare in their catchment. Public investment in landcare in the catchment had been limited since...

Connecting local communities with Cockatoos

A four-year partnership project between Birdlife WA and the PHCC has increased community awareness of south-west Australia’s three iconic, endemic species of Black Cockatoo and the necessity for landscape scale restoration. Under the...

We acknowledge the Noongar people as Traditional Custodians of this land and pay our respects to all Elders past and present