Residents on larger properties within the City of Armadale have the opportunity to help improve biodiversity and the health of the City’s treasured natural environment by joining the Habitat Links program.
Landowners whose properties are zoned as Special Residential, Rural Living or General Rural (under the City of Armadale’s Town Planning Scheme No. 4) and contain or are adjacent to bushland, wetlands and watercourses, may be eligible to receive:
- Native seedlings to plant on their property
- Ongoing support of a dedicated Habitat Links Officer
- A site visit and advice on implementation of native revegetation and habitat creation projects.
Participants of the program will also receive technical advice to help with:
- Native plant species identification
- Plant selection for revegetation projects suitable for soil type
- Planting techniques to give seedlings a greater chance of survival
- Weed identification and management
- Feral animal management
- Planting native plants to attract birds and insects
- Creating wildlife habitat
- Erosion management
- Environmental monitoring
Habitat Links Program
If you believe you are eligible and would like to do your bit for the environment, register your expression of interest online.
For more information, contact habitatlinks@armadale.wa.gov.au or phone 9394 5000.
Monitor Lizard or Gould's Goanna (Kaada)
Carnaby's Black Cockatoo (Ngoolyak) - time for a drink
Echidna (Nyingarn)
New Holland Honeyeaters (Bandiny)
Southwestern Brown Bandicoot (Quenda) grazing at night - motion sensor camera photo
Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Karak)- chewing on a marri nut
Yellow Cottonheads - Conostylis
Orange-flowered Eremaea (Eremaea pauciflora)
Native Fuchsia (Grevillea wilsonii)
Swan River Pink Myrtle (Hypocalymma robustum)
Blue Leschenaultia (Lechenaultia biloba)
