State NRM Program Strategic Priority Projects
Successful projects – 2012
Projects extended - 2011
Successful projects – 2010
Successful projects – 2012
Fertiliser partnership agreement projects
Proponent / Project / FundingDepartment of Agriculture and Food WA / Whole farm nutrient mapping / $1 000 000
Department of Water / Implementing the Vasse-Wonnerup Water Quality Improvement Plan / $350 000
Soil amendment trials / $300 000
Swan River Trust / Swan-Canning water quality improvement / S1 500 000
Weed and pest management projects
Proponent / Project / FundingRangelands NRM / Kimberley rubber vine eradication / $1 000 000
South Coast NRM / Starling control / $320 000
South West Catchments Council / Feral pig control in south west WA / $900 000
Wheatbelt NRM / Coordinated predator control / $350 000
Land management projects
Proponent / Project / FundingNorthern Agricultural Catchments Council / Pilot to test carbon driven solutions to salinity / $330 000
Rangelands NRM / Sustainable productivity in the rangelands / $145 000
Biodiversity conservation projects
Department of Environment and Conservation / Critically endangered flora recovery / $1 610 000
Dibbler conservation / $350 000
Western ground parrot conservation / $600 000
Western swamp tortoise conservation / $500 000
Department of Fisheries / Demersal fish stock conservation on the south coast / $850 000
Freshwater fish conservation / $850 000
Northern Agricultural Catchments Council and Rangelands NRM / Biodiversity Links: mid-west and southern rangelands / $300 000
South Coast NRM / Dieback management / $3 000 000
Western Australian Local Government Association / Local government biodiversity conservation / $500 000
Other projects
Proponent / Project / FundingDepartment of Agriculture and Food WA / Aboriginal engagement in natural resource management / $500 000*
Forming Recognised Biosecurity Groups in agricultural areas / $700 000
* This project was approved along with others listed here but is not included in the media release dated 24.07.12
Projects extended - 2011
Department of Environment and Conservation / Enhance interim emergency recovery actions for 12 species of threatened flora / $70,000
Targeting major recovery actions for the critically endangered Woylie / $250,000
Threatened Fauna ARK project / $250,000
Department of Fisheries / Protecting inshore and demersal finfish / $112,500
Quantifying recreational fishing catch and effort - pilot recreational survey of shore-based fishing in the metropolitan area / $170,000
West Coast near-shore finfish status and connectivity / $250,000
Department of Water / Kimberley waterways education / $125,000
Risk assessment and decision framework for managing groundwater-dependent aquatic ecosystems with a drying climate / $10,000
Swan River Trust with Murdoch University / Eradication of the feral and invasive Pearl Cichlid in the Swan Canning Riverpark / $25,000
Western Australian Local Government Association / Extension of local community bushland protection plans for Perth / $95,000
Western Australian Planning Commission / Protection of priority natural resources in strategic regional land use plans / $250,000
Successful projects – 2010
State-wide
Proponent / Project title / FundingDepartment of Agriculture and Food / The recognised biosecurity group implementation project / $520 000
Department of Environment and Conservation / High priority recovery actions for matters of national environmental significance in Western Australia / $670 000
Department of Fisheries / West coast near-shore finfish status and connectivity* / $660 250
Department of Planning / Enviroplanning—integrating NRM into land-use planning / $490 573
Department of Water / Extension to the term of the Wheatbelt Drainage Council / $49 000
Environmental Protection Authority / Improving water quality in sensitive waterways through reduction of phosphorus inflows from rural and urban sources and providing a governance framework for drainage / $610 177
State NRM Office / NRM policy review of delivery arrangements in Western Australia 2009–13 / $100 000
Statewide coordination of Aboriginal engagement in natural resource management / $200 000
Department of Agriculture and Food / Control of priority invasive species / $390 000
Implementing water quality improvement plans (WQIPs) and fertiliser action plan / $500 000
Invasive species strategy for Western Australia—starling and camel control / $600 000
Department of Environment and Conservation / Completion of scientific research essential to safeguarding Carnaby’s cockatoos and streamlining approval processes / $440 000
Dieback eradication Fitzgerald River National Park and urgent dieback protection actions / $1 610 000
Emergency recovery actions for highest priority threatened flora* / $870 000
Key natural diversity recovery catchment salinity recovery actions / $480 000
Urgent endangered flora recovery / $424 000
Proponent / Project title / Funding
Department of Fisheries / Biosecurity diagnostic tools / $235 000
Cost-effective hatchery production of native fish for restocking / $350 000
Preserving native fish biodiversity / $500 000
Department of Planning / Local community bushland protection plans for Perth* / $400 000
Protection of priority natural resources in strategic regional land-use plans* / $750 000
Department of Water / Development of WQIPs for Blackwood, Scott, Leschenault and Hill estuaries / $500 000
Implementation of riparian restoration erosion control and nutrient management in priority waterways* / $1 940 000
Implementation of WQIPs to improve riparian condition and water quality in hotspots of the south-west / $300 000
Implementing drainage governance and best management approaches to waterways and wetlands in the wheatbelt / $500 000
Strategic tree planting and fencing along creeks and rivers / $517 000
Northern agricultural region
Proponent / Project title / FundingDepartment of Fisheries / Indicative development plan for the Houtman Abrolhos Islands / $490 000
Perth region
Department of Fisheries / Protecting inshore and demersal finfish* / $225 000
Quantifying recreational fishing catch and effort* / $300 000
Swan River Trust / Cichlids investigation / $50 000
Implementing WQIPs—Swan–Canning River System / $3 190 000
Rangelands region
Proponent / Project title / FundingDepartment of Water / Kimberley Waterways Recovery and Education—Indigenous* / $255 513
Department of Fisheries / Port biosecurity / $135 000
Department of Environment and Conservation / Threatened fauna Shark Bay Arc Projects—saving WA’s threatened fauna* / $1 270 000
South west region
Proponent / Project title / FundingDepartment of Environment and Conservation / Emergency conservation action for the woylie* / $500 000
Department of Water / Implementing WQIPs, Peel–Harvey / $1 000 000
Implementing WQIPs, Vasse, Wonnerup, Geographe Bay / $1 253 000
Wheatbelt region
Proponent / Project title / FundingDepartment of Water / Avon waterways restoration / $46 000