Past Projects

The projects of the Malleefowl Preservation Group are focused on working with farmers and pastoralists to address the decline of the Malleefowl and associated habitat. The community initiated on-ground projects provide agency and similar interest organisations with a direct link to landholder conservation programs.  

WMC Arid Lands Malleefowl Research Program

Peter Clough, Manager, Corporate Affairs West, WMC Resources Ltd made this important announcement at the MPG Ten Year Celebration weekend.

"WMC Resources Ltd has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to the conservation and research of the malleefowl in Western Australia. Action Malleefowl, Mulga to Mallee, a program recently developed by the Malleefowl Preservation Group, is being sponsored by WMC Resources for the next two years. The program aims to complete the recommendations in the Arid Lands Project 2001 and identify Yeelirrie Station as the most northerly link for the Mulga to Mallee Protection Zone (corridor) link. The WMC sponsorship will also allow the MPG to increase community awareness through the introduction of the "Malleefowl Magic" education program to West Australian Primary Schools in the Goldfields region.

WMC Resources is committed to achieving compatibility between economic development and the maintenance of the environment. It therefore seeks to ensure that, throughout all phases of its activities, WMC personnel and contractors give proper consideration to the care of the flora, fauna, air, land and water, and to the community health and heritage which may be affected by these activities."

This is an extension of the significant and important two year $40,000 sponsorship that was received from WMC Resources Ltd, in March 1999, to increase Malleefowl research and community awareness in the Goldfields area of Western Australia. The project involved Dr. Joe Benshemesh, research scientist from Victoria, MPG members and WMC pastoral and environmental personnel. This project has provided an important link to the National Malleefowl Recovery Plan.