Local Biodiversity Strategy: - Shire of Kalamunda

A private land conservation strategy could include, but is not limited to, the following
initiatives.
11.7.1 Extension and Review of Existing Programs
The Shire of Kalamunda currently supports a number of initiatives that support
biodiversity conservation. There are also a number of initiatives provided by the
Federal and State Governments. These are summarised in Table 17.
Table 17: Current private land conservation initiatives available to residents of the Shire of
Kalamunda
Initiatives provided by the Shire of Kalamunda
Initiative Summary Positive Outcome
Plants to The Plants to Residents program aims The program is available to
Residents
to encourage revegetation of everyone. The planting of
residential and rural properties with
locally endemic trees, shrubs and
locally endemic species will
help reduce the number of
groundcovers by giving these plants to weed species planted in
residents for free. Residents are gardens and increase
encouraged to select from species that revegetation on private
are most suited to the part of
Kalamunda that they live in, i.e. Swan
Coastal Plain, Darling Scarp or Darling
Plateau. In 2008 approximately 10,000
plants were provided to the residents
of the Shire.
property.
Eastern Hills
Catchment
Management
Project (EHCMP)
Bush Skills for the
Hills
Environmental
Educational
Initiatives
The EHCMP is a partnership project
where the Shire of Kalamunda works
together with the EMRC, the Shire of
Mundaring and the City of Swan. This
initiative aims to improve land and
water quality and maintain biodiversity
in Perth’s Eastern Hills by drawing
together a range of stakeholders to
achieve common outcomes for
protecting and managing the
environment.
Bush Skills for the Hills is a series of
free, hills-focused workshops for the
community which provide a mix of
information and hands-on experience.
Some of the Bush Skills workshops
applicable to private land conservation
include bush regeneration, weed
management, habitat creation and
creekline restoration.
The Shire supports a number of other
environmental educational initiatives
such as Fauna Awareness in
collaboration with Kanyana Wildlife
Centre and Great Gardens in
collaboration with the State
Government.
The provision of technical
advice, on property meetings
and assessments and the
provision of hard copy
information that can be
provided by trained officers.
Free training to help with the
conservation of biodiversity
values.
Improved awareness of
environmental issues including
biodiversity conservation.
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