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Salinity threatens the biodiversity of Western Australia. Many of our streams and wetlands are becoming saltier, and remnants of native vegetation are declining. Hundreds of native plants and animals living in valleys face extinction. Under the State Salinity Action Plan (now the State Salinity Strategy) the Government established a Natural Diversity Recovery Catchment Program to help recover and protect significant natural areas, particularly wetlands, from salinity. Selection of Natural Diversity Recovery Catchments is based on a number of criteria, the most important of which are the nature conservation values at risk and the likelihood of recovering and protecting areas from salinity. Local community support and technical ability to control salinity are two important measures of the potential for success. Work under the Natural Diversity Recovery Catchment Program not only protects some of Western Australia's most significant natural areas, it is also an important means for developing and testing ways of combating salinity in southern areas of our State. Examples of this include work on the feasibility f groundwater pumping and salt harvesting. Reports on the work in recovery catchments are included in the sections on each catchment. To date, six natural diversity recovery catchments have been established.
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Click here to view the Buntine-Marchagee Natural Diversity Recovery Catchment recovery plan: 2007- 2027 (
