Protecting our Flora and Fauna

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...

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...

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