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...
Saltbush provides an economic and sustainable forage crop option for a range of soil types, environments, and animal species across the greater South West Wheatbelt. There are numerous species and varieties of Saltbush available, with a new...
The Australian Government has committed ~$3.6 million dollars to protect and enhance biodiversity in the Peel-Harvey Catchment. The ‘Rivers 2 Ramsar’ project will be delivered by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council and its partners...
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...
The Serpentine River is a catchment of diverse landuses including urban development, horticulture, grazing, poultry farms, feedlots and hobby farms. Waters from the largely unmodified forested catchment of the upper Serpentine have been and...
Through a collaborative approach to improve the health, biodiversity, ecosystem function and ecosystem services of the Serpentine River and the estuary, the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council (PHCC) will work with local community, focusing on...
To assist the PHCC with the leveraging and commitment of the financial resources that will enable the effective planning, management, delivery and administration of the Project whilst delivering specific NRM objectives.
Lake Clifton is a critical part of the Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site, being one of the few places on earth where thrombolites, or living rock-like structures, are found. The Lake’s Catchment includes parts of the Yalgorup National Park and...
This project works with farmers to protect, enhance and plant native vegetation on farms across the Peel-Harvey Region in two farming landscapes and three bioregions.
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, 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...
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...
Newmont and the PHCC have a longstanding partnership that is supporting more effective catchment management.
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...
Lake McLarty is an internationally important wetland located in south-west Australia and an integral part of the Peel‑Yalgorup wetland system, Ramsar 482. Over recent years the lake’s condition has deteriorated due to reduced rainfall,...
The Waroona NRM and Fire Recovery Support Project is a two-year initiative to assist and support those within the Shires of Waroona and Harvey impacted by the massive wildfire of 2016. The fire had a significant impact on a number of local...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
The PHCC, in partnership with the local Noongar community and Chemsafe, has established and delivered a nationally accredited training course on weed control and safe chemical handling practices. The course, including the new Herbicide...
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...
Initiated by Greening Australia WA and facilitated by PHCC’s Rivercare Program, this water quality improvement project implemented water sensitive urban design principles, to retrofit the 3 drains that received 50% of the town of...