Publication Date

7-2025

Publisher

State of Western Australia (DPIRD)

City

Perth

Abstract

The Goomig Project is an irrigated agricultural development located approximately 30 km north of Kununurra, which involved clearing of approximately 9,260 ha of vegetation for agriculture. Approximately 11,470 ha of native vegetation surrounding, or remaining between, the cleared areas has been designated as a buPer area (hereafter the buPer area) to be managed to protect surrounding conservation reserves and watercourses (Strategen 2014).

Monitoring of Gouldian Finch wet season foraging activity and the phenology and productivity of important Gouldian Finch foraging grasses in the buPer area are required as conditions of the approval for the project, as 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

69

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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