Archived News for Green Sector Professionals - June, 2011
Funding totalling $2.37 million from Western Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) program has been announced to support 73 projects in WA during 2011-12.
Funding will go towards 14 projects across the metropolitan area, including revegetation of sections of Lake Claremont and the Canning River foreshores; riparian restoration of priority areas of the Swan and Helena rivers; and a project which aims to halt the infestation of the aggressive freshwater fish, the Pearl Cichlid in the Swan River catchment.
In the northern agricultural area, 12 projects have been funded including surveying the malleefowl population in a section of the Morawa Shire and regeneration work as part of the Chapman River Wildlife corridor.