Kokerbin Nature Reserve Desktop Fauna ... - Wheatbelt NRM

Kokerbin Nature Reserve
Desktop Fauna Assessment
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Project Background
Kokerbin Nature Reserve is located approximately six kilometres north-west of
Kowlyin, 15km north-east of Yoting and 40km north-west of Bruce Rock, within the
Wheatbelt area of Western Australia. The reserve contains Kokerbin Rock (also
known as Kokerbin Hill) a large granite outcrop which covers the majority of the
reserve. Kokerbin Rock is recognised as the third largest monolith in Australia,
covering an area of 9 hectares and is 122m in height (Shire of Bruce Rock, 2009).
Kokerbin Nature Reserve is administered by the Department of Environment and
Conservation (DEC) with a picnic area administered by the Shire of Bruce Rock.
The Kokerbin Nature Reserve covers an area of approximately 64 hectares, and lies
within a region extensively cleared for agriculture. Nangeen Hill and Kwolyin Nature
Reserves occur nearby to the north and north-east.
M Griffiths and P Lewis Fauna Consultants were commissioned by the Wheatbelt
NRM Inc.to undertake a fauna assessment of the Kokerbin Nature Reserve. The
fauna assessment comprised a desktop review, site inspection, targeted fauna search
and assessment of significant fauna habitats occurring in the Kokerbin Nature
Reserve.
1.2 Fauna Assessment Objectives
The scope of service was to conduct an ecological survey to provide baseline
information and contribute to an informed ecological assessment of the Kokerbin
Nature Reserve. This report details the results of the desktop survey of the Kokerbin
Nature Reserve. It includes species recorded from the reserve and adjacent areas,
species expected to occur within the reserve and also comments on species of
conservation significance expected to occur in the reserve or immediate area.. This
report will provide background information for a more detailed fauna assessment of
the area.
The objectives of the desktop survey include to:
- Conduct a review of background information (a search of all sources for
literature, data and map-based information);
- Compile an inventory of vertebrate fauna expected to occur on the site;
- Identify significant fauna species likely to utilise habitat within the project
area;
- Document the characteristics of the fauna assemblage of the site including
significance at the international, national, state, regional and local level;
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