A NatureLink Perth Intern Project

The Banksia Woodland Monitoring Guide for Citizen Science is a tool developed to assess the condition of Banksia woodlands across the Greater Perth Region. We developed this guide to empower every day people to get out into their local bushland and establish the skills necessary to assess the condition of a Banksia woodland. Unlike traditional monitoring programs, this is a threat-based program where we target specific threats identified as high risk to Banksia woodlands. This monitoring can be undertaken by any person or group without assistance from a formal environmental organisation.

Download the Data Recording Sheet and get started!

From the pre-colonial landscape. Of vast undulating plains that would seasonally flood as rains filled the near-surface water table to present above ground, and set off an effect of feeding and breeding and growing and flourishing… ripe with ducks to hunt, plant fibres and animal hides to clothe,

Through to the erection of a modern metropolitan city, skirting the banks of rivers and coastline stretching its suburbs north and south.

Over the next hour, let’s walk through time and the story of Perths lost wetlands.

I’ll show you how Perth’s wetlands have changed in response to her ever-expanding population, and how our values have influenced them.

Find out who didn’t make it, and who survived, and why.

Who has found a new way to exist, and what the future holds.

In knowing and understanding what had gone before, there are clues as to how we might avoid repeating mistakes, how we might improve and protect what we have, and a way to shift our values and focus to face future challenges with foresight, respect and wisdom.

Find out all about Bobtails and how to care for them in an urban environment. We have a great fact sheet or you can get all the info in Luisa’s full report.