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Peel-Harvey Catchment Council

Locality: Mandurah, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 6369 8800

Address: 58 Sutton Street 6210 Mandurah, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.peel-harvey.org.au/

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12.02.2022 Closing soon Applications for the inaugural Mike Schultz Memorial Biodiversity Scholarship close on 6 March 2022. For more information on this fantastic opportunity, please head to https://www.murdoch.edu.au//the-mike-schultz-memorial-biod.

30.01.2022 PHCC are looking forward to following the journey of Wing Threads Microlight Milly as she journeys around Australia to raise awareness of migratory shorebirds and the need to protect the habitat of this endangered group of birds! Our #Ramsar482 Peel-Yalgorup Wetlands are one of the many places around the world that are critical habitat for these birds. Check out Milly’s crowdfunding campaign to learn more and get involved in the adventure...

25.01.2022 PHCC recently supported the first workshop for BirdLife Western Australia's Shorebird Mentorship Program. Local expert birders will be teamed up with intermediate birder's to build the confidence and skills of volunteers for the National Shorebird Monitoring Program. PHCC will continue to support the mentor program which will run from October through to January with fortnightly surveys conducted across various sites of the Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Wetland. This project is supported by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program #Ramsar482

22.01.2022 EDIT: The Peel program is now fully booked! If you are still interested but didn't get in on time please still send me and email and I'll keep you in reserve in... case of cancellations. Hi Everyone, We're excited to announce a new shorebirds training program that we will be running this summer. This advanced training course is aimed at beginner to intermediate experience shorebirders who would like to attain the skills to conduct shorebird surveys. Classroom exercises will take place both online and at the Peel Harvey Catchment Council office while field trips will take place in various regions throughout the Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar site. There are only a limited number of spaces remaining so please register your interest quickly! NB. We will also be running similar programs based in Denmark and Geraldton, for those who are interested in these locations please also register your interest by emailing [email protected]

22.01.2022 Have you ever spotted a Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo? A much-loved Western Australian icon, these impressive birds can be rather conspicuous, sometimes congregating... into large flocks. As part of the Environment Restoration Fund, the Australian Government has announced $3 million in funding to help in the recovery of this threatened bird. The funding will be delivered by five natural resource management organisations: NACC, Peel-Harvey Catchment Council, Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management Inc, South West Catchments Council (SWCC), and South Coast Natural Resource Management Inc., in partnership and with the support of BirdLife Australia. This project will focus on finding and protecting breeding sites and restoring breeding habitat. The decline in Carnaby’s has been primarily due to the loss and fragmentation of habitat. Carnaby’s also require nesting hollows from large trees that are up to 200 years of age. The project will work with landholders to install nesting boxes in important breeding areas and help in the raising of Black Cockatoo fledglings in time for the main breeding season. To learn more visit: https://www.abc.net.au//carnabys-black-cockatoos-/12570634 National Landcare Program Have you ever spotted a Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo? A much-loved Western Australian icon, these impressive birds can be rather conspicuous, sometimes congregating into large flocks.

21.01.2022 Keeping our Board Members up to date with project activities is an important part of their regular meetings. Staff member Rick James recently presented the results of groundwater monitoring at Lake Clifton. Part of our National Landcare Program funded #WetlandsandPeople project, this work is assessing the flow of water to the lake's thrombolite community. The flow of fresh to brackish groundwater is essential for the health of the microbes that form the characteristic thrombolite domes in the lake. #Ramsar482

21.01.2022 Looking for something to do with the kids these school holidays? Then the Wetlands Weekender Movie Night is for you! Tickets are only $10 and that includes a drink, popcorn and cake! https://www.facebook.com/events/334431987923265/ Mataya The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Visit Mandurah

21.01.2022 It's that time of the year again at PHCC! Our Land Conservation and Hotham Williams teams have been busy processing all of the Community Environmental Grant (CEG) applications submitted for the 2020/21 grant round We received a whopping 50 applications from across the Catchment for consideration under our Greening Farms, Banksia Woodlands, Black Cockatoo, and Numbat Neighbourhood projects.... The Community Environment Grant (CEG) Program has been established to enable the Peel-Harvey community to undertake projects that protect and enhance natural resources including land, soils, water and biodiversity. These projects contribute to the achievement of the objectives of our NRM Strategy "Bindjareb Boodja Landscapes 2025" and our outcomes under the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program If you missed out on applying this round and want to know more for next year please get in touch via email: [email protected] Our CEG Program is made possible through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program and the Environmental Restoration Fund.

19.01.2022 Our latest upper catchment newsletter is out! Read it here...https://peel-harvey.org.au//2/08/2020_09_LC-Matters_HW.pdf

19.01.2022 Looking Forward, looking back. Throughout the year, our Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator (RALF), Paula Pownall visits farms to assist landholders in a variety of ways. Support includes project planning, mapping, and providing advice on sustainable agricultural activities into the future. If you are interested to see how we can support you in this space, please contact Paula via [email protected]... #PHCCRALF is supported through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program #Greeningfarms

18.01.2022 European rabbits are invasive, feral pests throughout much of Australia. Their impacts include: -Causing considerable damage to the natural environment and to primary production. -Competing with native wildlife for feed and shelter... -Damaging vegetation and degrading the land causing severe erosion, ringbarking trees and shrubs Once mature trees die, the species is lost as there are no younger plants to replace them. This has a flow on effect for the native birds, reptiles, invertebrates that live within. -Preventing regeneration by eating seeds and seedlings. Due to their small mouth and rodent like teeth for close grazing, they are selective feeders, searching out tiny seedlings of the most palatable species and remove them before they can grow and reproduce. Their impact often increases during drought and immediately after fire, when food is scarce and they eat whatever they can. Current techniques available for controlling rabbits can be categorised broadly as biological, chemical and mechanical. Biological control for rabbits has been particularly effective. Baiting, warren fumigation, ripping, harbourage destruction, rabbit-proof fencing, shooting and trapping are also control options and a combination of these is generally more effective. For more information on landholders responsibilities and control methods please follow the links: https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pest-mammals/european-rabbit https://www.agric.wa.gov.au//rabbit-control-urban-and-semi https://pestsmart.org.au/toolkits/european-rabbits/

18.01.2022 Last year during the Annual Clean Up the Peel month community groups worked together and collected an impressive 1.4 tonnes of litter and debris from around our catchment! Big clean-up efforts like this are vital in order to help protect our environment and local wildlife, so come along and help us clean up this upcoming March. You can get involved with an existing clean up or you can register your own event here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CleanUpthePeel2022. This will ...be used to promote your event locally via social and print media. Be sure to also register your event at https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/ soon so that your free equipment arrives in time along with ensuring you have public liability insurance. Clean up the Peel is an initiative of Mandurah Environment and Heritage Group and Friends of Rivers, Peel, with support from the PHCC through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. #Ramsar482 Clean Up Australia #CleanUpthePeel #StepUpToCleanUp Mandurah Environment and Heritage Group

18.01.2022 South West Catchments Council (SWCC) is running a Nitrogen Trial Field Walk on Thursday 3rd September. If you want to achieve the best returns from your N applications and see it demonstrated in the field, then this is for you! See flyer for more information and to register.

17.01.2022 So last week something special happened...we celebrated our gorgeous CEO, Jane O'Malley's 10th anniversary with PHCC. Jane is an inspiration to all of us. Her commitment to getting the best possible outcome from everything she does sets an example for us to follow. Jane also genuinely cares for and looks out for us. We are so lucky to have her as our CEO and hope she continues to lead the charge for at least another 10 years.

15.01.2022 Pseudogobius olorum...Sounds like a Harry Potter spell, right? It is in fact a species of fish native to south-west WA, also known as the Swan River Goby, and its magical power is the ability to move over very great distances to inhabit waterways that have increased in salinity. We are talking about a fish that is around 25mm in length travelling from its home range on the coast to inland as far as the upper reaches of the Hotham River more that 150km away! Therefore, its p...resence further and further inland is directly related to the salinisation of inland river systems. The Swan River Goby can also tolerate extreme temperatures and has a fast reproductive cycle, which aids their ability to inhabit new areas. Photo courtesy of Wetland Research & Management Newmont Australia #HothamWilliams

15.01.2022 With more rain forecast this weekend, please hold off on the fertiliser! Rain carries excess fertiliser from our lawns and gardens into stormwater drains, rivers and estuaries. Fertilisers can threaten these sensitive environments and the health of our Blue Swimmer Crabs. #HomeRiverOcean

15.01.2022 Our Wetlands Science Co-ordinator Rick James recently spent some time with DBCA and UWA staff conducting a trial groundwater survey at Lake Clifton. Using a technique known as Electrical Resistivity Tomography a 2D picture under the ground can be obtained up to a depth of 20m. As part of PHCC's National Landcare Program funded #WetlandsandPeople project the data will be used to help assess the flow of groundwater to the lake's thrombolite community. Pictured are DBCA's Gavan McGrath and Josephine Hyde setting up the equipment. #Ramsar482

15.01.2022 Great news for Numbats! We felt very honoured to have supported the annual numbat drive survey this year through our #NumbatNeighbourhood project which had amazing results with 35 numbat sightings, more than 3 x the sightings recorded last year! This is all due to the great feral animal control occurring within Dryandra Woodland by Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia along with the work our dedicated #HothamWilliams farmers and community are doing on their propertie...s to reduce threats to Numbats and other threatened species all of which #PHCC are proud to support and be involved in. National Landcare Program Newmont Australia Numbat Task Force Project Numbat https://www.facebook.com/numbatTF/posts/1800306133477799

14.01.2022 Can you spot the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo in the tree? This cocky and its friends were spotted by PHCC's Mel Durack and volunteer Victoria during a recent Community Environmental Grant site visit in Boddington. The landholders have recently fenced off all of the remnant bushland on their property and are now looking to conduct further planting with species which will be a food source to all three species of the black cockatoos. ... For more information on these amazing creatures and to listen to their calls visit http://www.birdlife.org.au//s/identify-your-black-cockatoo National Landcare Program

14.01.2022 What a way to finish off the Wetlands Weekender! Thank you to everyone who attended and assisted in making the Wonders of the Wetlands for 2020 such a great success. We really got to celebrate our Wonderful Wetlands and 30 years of being internationally recognised as Ramsar site 482! It was a hive of activity with colourful markets, great local music and food, a huge amount of kids activities, a painting competition, cultural storytelling and the Doggie’s breakfast. We had a... great time and hope that you did too. Let’s all keep working together to protect these Wonderful Wetlands! Thanks also to Flics Kitchen who supplied the raffle prize winner goes to Aine Delaunty. Special thanks to BirdLife Western Australia, Peel Bright Minds, Coastal Waste Warriors Mandurah Environment and Heritage Group and the City of Mandurah who supported this event. This project is supported by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program Mandurah Cruises Mandurah Plein Air Artists (Inc) Mandurah Dreaming Estuary Guardians Mandurah Street Hassle Events The Wetlands Centre Cockburn The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands #Ramsar482 #WMBD #WorldMigratoryBirdDay East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP)

13.01.2022 Today we celebrate National Threatened Species Day. September 7 commemorates the death of the last known Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) at Hobart Zoo in 1936. We are encouraged to reflect on this, and think about how to protect our unique Australian fauna and flora. The little guys below live locally - there are not many of them around and they are classified as threatened species. We are working very hard to raise awareness and protect them into the future thro...ugh our #NumbatNeighbourhood Project funded through the Australian Government's National Landcare Program. Photo: Young numbats by Rob McLean.

12.01.2022 Black Cockatoo nesting season is upon us! September to January is the approximate nesting window for our Black Cockatoos, although red-tails can nest outside these times. Here are some tips on what to look out for:... Early in the season pairs of birds may be seen prospecting (looking for hollows). The most common scenario is to see the male sitting on a branch near the entry of a potential hollow, looking bored, while the female inspects the hollow. She may chew around the rim and enter and leave the hollow. The male may also be seen entering the hollow while the female sits by. They nest in large, hollow bearing trees, such as Marri and Wandoo. During the early stages, while on the egg and whilst the chick is young, the female will spend the majority of her time on the nest, leaving the nest only a couple of times a day to be fed by and socialise with her male as well as drink. At these times, usually once in the morning and once in the afternoon, you will see them in pairs. If you see a pair together it may be that the male is feeding the female. The male feeds the female if she is sitting on an egg or young chick (the same way a mother feeds her chick by regurgitating food) he will always feed her out of the hollow by calling her out to feed. Later in the season, when the chick is older, the female will leave the nest more frequently to feed. If a female is seen alone, or with her male, rather than in a flock - it is likely that she is near her nesting hollow. By quietly observing you may see her enter the nesting hollow. Be sure not to disturb the birds by your presence and please be discreet. If you observe any of the above behaviours please notify our Black Cockatoo Project Officer Megan LeRoy by email: [email protected] or phone 6369 8800. Megan can come and confirm nesting and may be able to use a pole mounted camera to look in the hollow. This project is supported by the PHCC through funding from the Australian Government’s Environmental Restoration Fund. #protectwablackcockatoos #protect PHOTO: Keith Lightbody

12.01.2022 It's Saturday and it's Spring so time to fertilise our lawns, right? Wrong! Hold off on the fertiliser this weekend as there is rain forecast. We want the nutrients to stay on our lawns and not end up in our waterways and estuary. #HomeRiverOcean https://www.homeriverocean.com.au/

12.01.2022 Wetland Arts Markets The Wetlands Weekender is on again, this year is a special year as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the listing of the Peel-Yalgorup Wetlands System as a Ramsar Wetland of international importance. There will be a bunch of fun activities including wetland themed arts markets at Coodanup Foreshore Reserve on Sunday the 11th of October. We are searching for Wetland themed handmade stalls to showcase local quality arts, crafts, and produce from the Peel ...region. Date: Sunday 11th of October Time: 9.00 am 2.00 pm Location: Coodanup Foreshore Reserve, Peel Parade, Coodanup (nearest cross street Beacham St) Express your interest in attending via this link: https://forms.gle/EsWi2tQBY33K6Te59 To view the full festival program click here: http://peel-harvey.org.au/wetlands-weekender

11.01.2022 Take a look at the work DBCA's Parks and Wildlife Service are doing to restore our threatened Banksia Woodlands in this short video #banksiawoodlands. We support organisations like DBCA and private landholders to protect and restore Banksia Woodlands within our catchment as part of our National Landcare Program funded WorldofWoodlands and our #ProtectBlackCockatoos projects. Through the efforts of our land custodians, we can improve the condition of our Banksia Woodlands wh...ich are important to so many species, including our threatened Carnaby Cockatoos that rely on the woodlands as their major native food source on the Swan Coastal Plain. We currently have funding available to landholders to protect and improve patches of Banksia Woodland. So if you have a patch on your block, please get in touch with us, so we can let you know how you can help. Email us at [email protected] or look on our website for link to guidelines https://peel-harvey.org.au//community-environment-grants-/ Hurry applications close 31st August. https://www.facebook.com/watch/

11.01.2022 South African Pigface (Hottentot Fig) is a common ground-hugging plant that's blooming all around our #Ramsar482 wetlands and coastal areas at the moment. It's easy to confuse with native pigface, both have big colourful flowers and succulent leaves but there are some easy clues. South African Pigface (Carpobrotus edulis) has big yellow flowers (6-8 cm diameter) fading to pale pink, leaves slightly concave, bulging outwards; Native Pigface (Carpobrotus virescens) has small...er deep pink flowers (around 5 cm diameter), leaves slightly convex, giving the appearance of being sucked inwards. South African PIgface is weedy, taking over in some areas, and hybridising with the native species just to complicate things. South African Pigface is on our weed hit-list for our National Landcare Program funded #WetlandsandPeople project. Our contractors have already been controlling it in a few places so hopefully this will give the native species a better chance NRM Regions Australia Shire of Murray

10.01.2022 National Biosecurity Forum Running now! 9-12 November The National Biosecurity Forum is a joint event between the department and the... National Biosecurity Committee. It is an opportunity to discuss biosecurity challenges, achievements and future directions with government, industry and community representatives. This year the forum will be run online, with a plenary session held on 9 November and subsequent sessions held throughout the week. The plenary session will include the announcement of the winners of round 2 of the 2020 Australian Biosecurity Awards. Attendees can learn more about the latest in biosecurity innovations, communication and engagement initiatives, and collaborative efforts that are underway to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity system. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2020-national-biosecurity-f See more

10.01.2022 The Red Hill Walk Trail in Boddington is now open! Time to wander in our local reserves. The Red Hill Reserve Walk Trail, located 8 kms by road from Boddington on the Pinjarra-Williams Road, is now officially open! This walk trail will guide you approximately 2km through the reserve which is home too many orchids and flowering native species. You will be sure to hear or see the abundance of local birds that call this Reserve home. Red Hill Reserve is a great location with p...arkland and bush for picnics and nature time. Please remember to enjoy, take only photographs and leave only your footprints! This project has been coordinated by the Friends of the Reserves - Boddington (Inc.) and supported by the Shire of Boddington and Peel-Harvey Catchment Council through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program

09.01.2022 This super speedy brush-tailed phascogale was captured on a Boddington landholders monitoring camera. Here at PHCC we love hearing about the native species landholders are seeing on their properties. The main threat to brush-tailed phascogales are habitat clearing, fragmentation and the reduced availability of trees with hollows, as well as predation by feral cats and foxes. If you are a landholder who would like help controlling feral cats and foxes please contact Christine Townsend our #FarmersforFauna Co-ordinator on 6369 8801 or email [email protected]. The #NumbatNeighbourhood project is supported by the PHCC through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program #HothamWilliams

09.01.2022 We were very excited during our recent Black Cockatoo surveys to find three breeding pairs of endangered Carnaby Black Cockatoos! Check out the cute little chick that we managed to film hiding away at the bottom of a hollow! We estimate it to be about 2 weeks old from looking at its size, colour and feathers.... This is an awesome result. Our #BlackCockatoo project is funded through the Australian Government

09.01.2022 Our #HothamWilliams farmers have been busy planting seedlings on their properties to increase habitat for threatened species and constructing fencing to protect bushland and waterways. Wandering Farmer Kelvin Price has planted over 6,000 seedlings to increase habitat on his farm. Brendon Hardie has completed fencing along the Hotham River on his Wandering property to protect this important wildlife corridor which, through the Fourteen Mile Brook. links to Dryandra Woodland. These farmers each received a Community Environment Grant through our National Landcare Program funded #NumbatNeighbourhood project

09.01.2022 We are currently in the Noongar season of Djilba, the first spring. It is the time when flowering commences in earnest. Our new Project Support Officer Jennie Beeson recently captured these images (Hibbertia, Drosera and Hovea) in the Yalgorup National Park during monthly water quality sampling of the Yalgorup Lake System as part of our National Landcare Program funded #Ramsar482 #WetlandsandPeople project.

07.01.2022 We recently welcomed Jennie Beeson to the PHCC team. Jennie will be helping to deliver our State Natural Resource Management Program WA funded Lake McLarty #Ramsar482 project. Our Science & Waterways Program Manager Dr Steve Fisher provided Jennie with some guidance on assessing water quality from lake bed piezometers during a recent trip to the lake. #WetlandsandPeople

06.01.2022 Under Round 4 of the Smart Farms Small Grants program, the Australian Government is making grants of between $5,000 and $100,000 available to support projects t...hat help farming, forestry and fishing groups and communities increase their awareness, knowledge, skills and capacity to adopt smart and sustainable practices. Through the #SmartFarms program, the government is striving to make Australia’s agriculture, fishing, aquaculture and forestry industries more sustainable, productive and profitable, while also aiming to protect and improve the condition of our natural resourcesespecially soils and vegetation. This will not only safeguard the future of these industries but also assist in protecting Australia’s biodiversity, which will also benefit these businesses in the long run. Applications close 11:00 pm AEDT, 9 October 2020: bit.ly/3lccRxX Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

04.01.2022 Our Regional Agriculture Landcare Facilitator often gets asked about forage and fodder pasture and crop options. South West Catchments Council (SWCC) are hosting an event on Thursday 8th October at Bell Pasture Seeds, Elgin. There is a great line up of speakers including Chatfields Nursery. National Landcare Program

04.01.2022 It’s never too late to control foxes! Make the most of a free, quick and easy opportunity on Friday 20 November 1-3pm to get tips and tricks from fox control experts Andy and Linda Lockey on a property in Serpentine. This event is being run by Landcare SJ with support from the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council through funding from the Alcoa Foundation. ... Now is the perfect time for trapping because there are young foxes in the den, and you can register anytime up until the day before the event to [email protected] or 0407526 989

03.01.2022 One part of the Mayfield Drain Project for the Regional Estuaries Initiative was to divert water from drains into wetlands, keeping water in the landscape and improving water quality for the estuary. The Science and Waterways team recently completed water quality sampling to assess the success of this project. #waestuaries

02.01.2022 This beautiful old footbridge is surrounded by a lush green creeping plant covering the landscape and waterway. But.... don't let this creeper fool you! Bridal Creeper (Asparagus asparagoides) has been a weed of National significance for many years, and more recently it has taken over reserves in the Hotham Williams area. Bridal Creeper takes over by smothering Native vegetation above ground, whilst producing tubers underground restricting the root growth of other plants. If... you come across Bridal Creeper please report to Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development - DPIRD via https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pests-weeds-diseases/mypestguide, or contact our Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator: [email protected] #PHCCRALF is supported through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program. #Greeningfarms

02.01.2022 This is going to be an awesome day, invite your networks :) To Register go to aaeeconference.org.au/2020-virtual-conference-registration.

02.01.2022 We continue to support re-vegetation of previous landcare projects through our Community Environment Grants. Recently we visited a local farmer interested in continuing the great work of the previous generation, through planting mixed species and creating wildlife corridors to connect wetlands. If you would like more information on how we can support your re-vegetation project, please email : [email protected]... The Community Environment Grants are supported by PHCC through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program. #greeningfarms #PHCCRALF

01.01.2022 Our Wetlands Restoration Officer, Mike is looking for watsonia and other weeds in a long strip of reserve on the south-west foreshore of Harvey Estuary. Weed control plays an important role in the on-ground component of our National Landcare Program funded #WetlandsandPeople Project. Mike loves being at one with nature and feeling like an intrepid explorer pushing his way through dense thickets of sedges and understorey shrubs while fighting off masses of spider webs. We love your office, Mike! #Ramsar482 NRM Regions Australia

29.12.2021 How do you feel about wildlife in your backyard? Does it contribute to your wellbeing? Perth NRM and UWA Albany have begun recruitment for the ‘Turning Gardener's into Conservationists’ project. Help investigate whether wildlife and wildlife friendly gardening have biodiversity and human wellbeing benefits by taking a short survey (approximately 10 minutes). ... As part of this survey, you can choose to register your interest to take part in an exciting citizen science project investigating what wildlife is found in gardens and how they use wildlife friendly structures! To complete the survey, click here: https://uwa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9zV9qRv64evFDvg Find more info on the project here: https://www.perthnrm.com/project/gardening-for-wildlife/