Woodland Watch

Woodland Watch is a collaborative project involving WWF-Australia and the Herbarium of the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, with the assistance of funding from the Natural Heritage Trust and Alcoa World Alumina Australia. A major objective of the project was to carry out floristic surveys of selected remnant eucalypt woodlands of the Avon region — all on private farmlands. The Avon wheatbelt region is situated in the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia and is largely bound by Jarrah forest in the south west, and by the Murchison and goldfields districts of the Eremaean Botanical Province to the north east. It encompasses an area of 93,520 square kilometres, of which 93% has been cleared.

Surveying the Woodland

Over 7,000 specimens were collected in the course of these surveys and details of the species they represent are available here on a site by site basis.

Four woodland types considered by WWF-Australia to be amongst the most threatened Eucalypt woodland communities of the Avon wheatbelt region were selected for study, namely Eucalyptus loxophleba (York Gum), Eucalyptus salubris (Brown Gimlet), Eucalyptus salmonophloia (Salmon Gum), and Eucalyptus longicornis (Red Morrel) woodlands. The role of the Western Australian Herbarium was to survey, identify and voucher all plant species from some 186 selected woodland sites.

Sites

Visit the list of sites that were surveyed as part of this project. Each site links to a list of species that were discovered at that site. From there you can browse to related information on each species.

Project Reports

• Woodland Watch Project Report 2000–2001 (630 kB PDF)
• Supplemental Project Report 2002 (280 kB PDF)
• Supplemental Project Report 2003 (260 kB PDF)
• Supplemental Project Report 2004 (360 kB PDF)
• Supplemental Project Report 2005 (530 kB PDF)
• Supplemental Project Report 2006 (1.3 MB PDF)

Further contact

See also WWF-Australia’s Woodland Watch site.

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