There are six regional NRM groups in Western
Australia, working in partnership with all tiers of
government, regional organisations, industry,
landowners, researchers, environmental and community
groups.
These six community-based NRM groups are
responsible for delivering the NAP and NHT programs
throughout Western Australia. The groups have
been engaged in developing long-term regional strategies
and investment (funding) plans in consultation with
their regional stakeholders. You can visit the
web page of each of the regional groups by clicking
their names in the list below.
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Swan region
The Swan Region covers more than 770,000 hectares, including Perth’s metropolitan area, and the Swan and Canning river catchments. It extends three nautical miles offshore and includes islands such as Rottnest. It is one of 25 world biodiversity hot spots, due mainly to its high floral diversity and richness.
The Perth Region NRM is
keenly focused on encouraging corporate support for NRM.
A program involving Alcoa World Alumina Australia and
the Swan River Trust (Swan Alcoa Landcare Program) has
been established as a model for corporate
sponsorship.
Local Government also supports community groups
with on-ground projects.
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Avon region
The Avon Catchment Council covers
12,000,000 hectares of the Western Australian
Wheatbelt, including the Avon, Lockhart and Yilgarn
sub-catchments. The region is a major
contributor to agricultural production through sheep and
wheat production, and is of international biodiversity
significance containing unique native flora and
endangered fauna.
The Avon Catchment Council has formal
partnerships with Greening Australia WA and WWF.
The ACC has nine community members and six
government agency representatives including the
Departments of Agriculture & Food, Conservation and
Land Management, Education and Training, Environment,
Main Roads, and the Wheatbelt Development
Commission.
South West region
The South West Catchments Council (SWCC)
aims at identifying and co-ordinating strategic
opportunities to achieve sustainable natural resource
management in the South West Region. This region covers
a vast area of some five million hectares from the
peri-urban Shire of Serpentine, to Walpole in the south
and Dumbleyung in the east. Key issues identified by
SWCC include people and culture, water, land,
biodiversity and marine and coastal. The South
West region forms, with parts of three other regions, a
large component of one of the world’s top 25
biodiversity hotspots.
South Coast region
The South Coast Natural Resource Management Inc. works with its NRM partners in the South Coast Region. The region covers some six million hectares, taking in all the southerly flowing river catchments, some internally draining areas and three nautical miles out to sea.
The region is renowned for spectacular landscapes including tall forests, the southern coastline and offshore islands, all southern WA's mountain peaks, and many inlets, estuaries, waterways and wetlands.
It has extremely high levels of biodiversity, with more than 20 per cent of WA's floristic diversity and numerous threatened flora and fauna species. South Coast NRM co-ordinates NRM efforts with land managers, Federal and State Government agencies, Local Government, other non-government organisations, educational institutions, and representative groups including community, research and development, industry and Indigenous.
Northern Agricultural region
The Northern Agricultural Catchments
Council (NACC) is the peak NRM body in the Northern
Agricultural region. The region extends from
Gingin in the south to Kalbarri in the north, and out
into the Wheatbelt of WA. There are four sub-regions:
Greenough, Yarra Yarra, Moore and West
Midlands. The NACC works closely with:
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Farmers and local agricultural catchment
groups
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Fishing and aquaculture interests
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Indigenous bodies
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Local Government authorities
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Industry groups - including tourism
organisations, mining companies and chambers of
commerce and industry
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Community groups, including local conservation
interest groups, and
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State Government departments, commissions and
authorities.
Rangelands region
The Rangelands region covers approximately 1.85
million square kilometres, which represents 90 per cent
of Western Australia and more than 75 per cent of the
coastline, and supports a population of 133,000
people. The Rangelands region features
national parks, nature reserves, conservation parks,
marine parks and reserves and two World Heritage listed
areas. It also contains many areas of special
significance to Aboriginal communities. The
Rangelands NRM Co-ordinating Group (RCG) is
responsible for co-ordinating NRM efforts in the vast
Rangelands Region which covers 90 per cent of WA, and 75
per cent of its coastline. It includes the Kimberley,
Pilbara, Gascoyne-Murchison, and Goldfields-Nullarbor
areas. Four sub-regional committees support the
RCG. The committees, together with NRM facilitators in
each sub-region, are working with the:
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Pastoral community
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Special interest, conservation and environmental
groups
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Fishing interests
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Indigenous people and groups
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Local government authorities
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State Government agencies, commissions and
authorities, and
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Industry groups, including tourism organisations
and mining companies.
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