• NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT VISION FOR THE NORTHERN AGRICULTURAL REGION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Community Capacity – Goals

Vision: “The local community has the knowledge, ability and willingness to contribute effectively to natural resource management”

Goal 1: 200 community events delivered to build natural resource management knowledge, ability and willingness in the local community by 2030.
  • Conduct a learning exchange visit, training event, farm walk, workshop or conference
  • Host a beach or river clean-up day
  • Engage with schools and tertiary education institutions on natural resource management
  • Engage with Traditional Custodians and their representative organisations on natural resource management
  • Develop and implement education resources
  • Develop and implement a communication and engagement strategy
  • Implement a scholarship program
Goal 2: 10 citizen science project partnerships contribute monitoring data to recognised local, state or federal datasets at least once per year by 2030.
  • Develop citizen science partnerships
  • Develop volunteer-based monitoring programs
  • Encourage landowners to collect and report data from their properties
  • Provide training for citizen scientists
  • Support the activities of citizen scientists, including in the region’s Aboriginal community
  • Promote opportunities for community-based monitoring and science projects in schools and tertiary education institutions
Goal 3: Environmental education projects engage school children and the public in at least 30 towns across the region by 2030.
  • Visit schools to present information on local biodiversity
  • Visit schools to present information on sustainability in the region
  • Deliver events that focus on raising awareness of threats to biodiversity
  • Deliver events that focus on raising awareness of threats to sustainability in the region
  • Create environmental education materials for use by schools and community groups
  • Ensure that Traditional Ecological Knowledge is well represented in environmental education materials
  • Support Return to Country events led by the region’s Aboriginal community
Goal 4: At least 20 community-based natural resource management groups remain viable through ongoing recruitment of volunteers or members by 2030.
  • Support volunteer recruitment activities
  • Support regional volunteer forums or networking events
  • Support community environmental groups to access funds for their activities
  • Deliver events where community environmental groups interact with school children or students
  • Deliver expos or events celebrating the work that volunteers do in the region
  • Create media releases or social media posts celebrating the work of volunteer groups
  • Maintain an NRM contacts database for the NAR
Goal 5: 25 projects implemented to incorporate ecologically sustainable development into built environments around the region by 2030.
  • Use best-practice water management techniques that increase water use efficiency
  • Promote the use of renewable energy technologies
  • Promote native gardens
  • Work with Aboriginal artists and designers to celebrate local cultural heritage in the built environment
  • Achieve a 75% municipal waste recovery rate (waste to landfill)
  • Encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport
  • Develop partnerships focused on sustainable urban design
  • Include signage to communicate local stories of Country, culture and community
  • Incorporate spaces that celebrate the region’s Aboriginal culture and heritage
  • Conduct education and training activities or events about sustainable behaviour changes

Acknowledgment of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the Yamaji and Noongar people who are the Traditional Owners and original natural resource managers of the Northern Agricultural Region and pay our respect to all of the Aboriginal Elders and leaders in the region, past, present and emerging

“Bandang jinangij ngala nyoongar boodja danjoo.” All people looking after Country together (Noongar).

“Barndi nhurra nganjungu barnagi yanayinha.” It is good that you come to our Country (Yamaji Wajarri).

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