Land for Wildlife celebrates 2,000th registration

Environment Minister Donna Faragher today officially recognised Kaarakin, Perth's Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre, as the 2,000th Land for Wildlife registration.

Landholders registered with Land for Wildlife currently manage more than a million hectares of land across Western Australia, of which more than 300,000ha are designated Land for Wildlife sites - effectively private conservation lands.

"This is a very important component of the State's formal conservation reserve system," Mrs Faragher said.

The Minister said it was particularly fitting that the 2,000th registration was Kaarakin, home of the Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre, an outstanding example of what can be achieved when the community and all levels of Government work together in the interests of biodiversity conservation.

"It is also a project targeting one of WA's iconic species, the threatened Carnaby's black cockatoo," she said.

Land for Wildlife works on an entirely voluntary basis with private landholders and local government to ensure bushland management and revegetation activities add to conservation values and minimise threats to biodiversity.

Mrs Faragher said the 12-year-old program was an important biodiversity extension service that provided relevant information and practical advice to landholders with the aim of maintaining native species and communities across the landscape.

"The long-term conservation of our flora, fauna and fungi requires a landscape approach which can only be achieved through effective co-operation with all landholders," she said.

"This co-ordinated approach is only possible where all landholders see the benefits of nature conservation being integrated with other land uses - to the benefit of both."

As well as being presented with a commemorative certificate, a Land for Wildlife sign, and a property report detailing management and revegetation strategies, the Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre was presented with a cheque for $5,500 to assist with its programs.