NRM WA: Partnering for prosperity
For generations, an abundance of natural resources has delivered prosperity to the people of Western Australia, and Australia more broadly. Those resources extend well beyond oil, gas and minerals to our natural landscapes and their water, soil, plants and animals. Natural Resource Management (NRM) involves an integrated approach to managing these resources for the benefit of current and future generations.
Western Australia has unique flora and fauna on a scale and diversity not seen anywhere else on earth, as recognised by UNESCO. Maintaining and protecting this biodiversity is central to economic prosperity in WA.
Western Australia’s unique soils support diverse, vibrant and critically important pastoral, agricultural and farming communities that contribute directly to the economic and social fabric of the state and the nation.
For the past 25 years the regional NRM groups in WA have worked with local communities and traditional owners to identify and address environmental issues that limit the environmental, economic and social prosperity of WA within their regional boundaries. In 2009 the groups formed the collective of NRM WA to address state-level and landscape-scale issues that span across regional boundaries.
Biodiversity is a high priority, to ensure we have an environment that supports regenerative agriculture and sustainable pastoralism and farming.
NRM WA enabling prosperity for large landscape scale change
“NRM WA’s strength is in partnering to identify, prevent, and repair large scale problems in our environment and agricultural landscapes.
They create real change through large scale projects that deliver lasting outcomes.”
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