Publication Date

7-2022

Publisher

State of Western Australia (Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development)

City

Perth

Abstract

The Goomig Project (Weaber Plains Development Project) is an irrigated agricultural development located approximately 30 km north of Kununurra, which involves clearing of approximately 9,260 ha of vegetation for agriculture. Approximately 11,470 ha of native vegetation surrounding, or remaining between, the cleared areas is designated as a buffer area (the study area) to be managed to protect surrounding conservation reserves and watercourses (Strategen 2014). Monitoring of Gouldian Finch wet season foraging activity and phenology and productivity of grasses important for foraging in the buffer area during ongoing operation are required as conditions of the approval for the project, and is outlined in the Gouldian Finch Conservation Plan (GFCP; Strategen 2014).

Item 8 of the monitoring regime requires “annual wet-season monitoring of foraging activity in critical wet-season feeding areas in close proximity to breeding areas, to be undertaken between November and April each year”, and Item 9 requires “mapping and annual monitoring of the phenology and productivity of wet season feeding habitat, and assessment of their use by Gouldian Finches, to be undertaken between November and April each year”.

Number of Pages

111

Keywords

Ord River, ORIA, irrigated agriculture, environmental compliance reporting, Western Australia, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Gouldian finch

Disciplines

Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment | Environmental Monitoring

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