Welcome to the Fitzgerald Biosphere Group Web Site
Left to right: Satellite Trials Tour 2006; local growers acquiring expert knowledge regarding revegetation techniques;
Fitzgerald River foreshore vegetation.
IN FOCUS
The FBG is a community driven organisation focussing on local issues with a ‘ground-up'
approach.
- RESEARCH - Continually working to identify local production and natural resource management issues and then researching, demonstrating and assisting in the implementation of broad scale innovative and sustainable management practices to address these.
- MARKETING - Continually working to attract project partners and sponsors to the Fitzgerald Biosphere Group.
- EDUCATION - Working at all levels within the community to increase the awareness and level of understanding of production and natural resource management issues and management options through a range of media.
- ENVIRONMENT - With a strong Landcare ethic, the group and wider community continues to work towards conserving biodiversity (both at the paddock and landscape scale) recognising the uniqueness of the area and the need for an integrated approach to address production and environmental issues.
Clockwise from right: Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve area and zones; Entrance signs to the region;
Quaalup Bells; local Honey Possum; Leafy Sea Dragon.
Partner Projects
Here are some of the other projects in which the FBG plays a significant role.
FBG is working with a number of other local, national and international groups on this exciting and innovative project. The Gondwana Link vision is simple: to reconnect bushland across 1000 km of south western Australia from the tall, wet, forest in the far south-western corner to the semi-arid woodlands on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain (the Fitzgerald Biosphere sits in the centre of Gondwana Link). Several of the groups involved are focussing their efforts on reconnecting the bushland between the Fitzgerald River and Stirling Range National Parks. Reconnecting the remaining bushland and restoring the underpinning ecological processes will result in a more resilient ecosystem capable of responding to pressures including climate change.
The Gondwana Link groups are:
Bush Heritage Australia
Fitzgerald Biosphere Group
Friends of the Fitzgerald River National Park
Greening Australia
The Nature Conservancy
The Wilderness Society
Green Skills
Reconnections - Communities, Conservation and Carbon
Shell Development sponsored Greening Australia WA project for biodiversity and commercial revegetation in the Jerramungup area. The FBG is assisting in identifying growers and local promotion and awareness raising.
 Swathing - A Harvest Management Tool for WA
A CBH project sub-contracted to the FBG to develop a small and easy to read booklet for that is able to be used by growers to develop better swathing techniques to avoid sand contamination. Copies of this publication are now available from the FBG Office or contact CBH.
FBG Sponsors
The FBG thanks its sponsors for their support:
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