State NRM Program Strategic Priority Projects
Successful projects – 2012
Projects extended - 2011
Successful projects – 2010
Successful projects – 2012
Fertiliser partnership agreement projects
Proponent
Project
Funding
Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Whole farm nutrient mapping
$1 000 000
Implementing the Vasse-Wonnerup Water Quality Improvement Plan
$350 000
Soil amendment trials
$300 000
Swan-Canning water quality improvement
S1 500 000
Department of Water
Swan River Trust
Weed and pest management projects
Proponent
Project
Funding
Rangelands 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
Proponent
Project
Funding
Northern Agricultural Catchments Council
Pilot to test carbon driven solutions to salinity
$330 000
Rangelands NRM
Sustainable productivity in the rangelands
$145 000
Land management projects
Biodiversity conservation projects
Proponent
Project
Funding
Critically endangered flora recovery
$1 610 000
Dibbler conservation
$350 000
Western ground parrot conservation
$600 000
Western swamp tortoise conservation
$500 000
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
Project
Funding
Aboriginal engagement in natural resource management
$500 000*
Forming Recognised Biosecurity Groups in agricultural areas
$700 000
Department of Environment and
Conservation
Department of Fisheries
Other projects
Proponent
Department of Agriculture and Food WA
* This project was approved along with others listed here but is not included in the media release dated 24.07.12
Projects extended - 2011
Proponent
Project title
Funding
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
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
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
Department of Environment and
Conservation
Department of Fisheries
Department of Water
Successful projects – 2010
State-wide
Proponent
Project title
Funding
Department 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
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
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
Department of Agriculture and Food
Department of Environment and Conservation
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
Local community bushland protection plans for Perth*
$400 000
Protection of priority natural resources in strategic regional land-use plans*
$750 000
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 southwest
$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
Proponent
Project title
Funding
Department of Fisheries
Indicative development plan for the Houtman Abrolhos Islands
$490 000
Department of Planning
Department of Water
Northern agricultural region
Perth region
Proponent
Project title
Funding
Department of Fisheries
Protecting inshore and demersal finfish*
$225 000
Quantifying recreational fishing catch and effort*
$300 000
Cichlids investigation
$50 000
Implementing WQIPs—Swan–Canning River System
$3 190 000
Proponent
Project title
Funding
Department 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
Proponent
Project title
Funding
Department 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
Proponent
Project title
Funding
Department of Water
Avon waterways restoration
$46 000
Swan River Trust
Rangelands region
South west region
Wheatbelt region