Twitchathon WA
WA & National Twitchathon 2017
Fundraising for BirdLife Australia
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Sponsor your favourite twitchathon team to support the BirdLife WA Great Western Woodlands project.
Please include the team name you're supporting in your pledge!
The Great Western Woodlands (GWW) is a 16 million hectare swathe of woodlands, mallee and heath interspersed with salt lakes, granite outcrops and in the north-west, banded ironstone formations (BIF) ranges. The GWW represents the largest intact remaining temperate woodland in the world.
In 2011, BirdLife Australia and The Nature Conservancy formed a partnership to fund and oversee a bird research and conservation project in the GWW. Working with teams of dedicated volunteers, systematic bird surveys are conducted, discovering information about the birds in this unique region of Western Australia.
Studies so far indicate that the survival of many woodland bird species in WA depend on the existence of the relatively intact Great Western Woodlands. There is evidence that many woodland birds decline in a fragmented or cleared landscape.
It is now 2017 and we are in our sixth year of bird surveys in the Great Western Woodlands. The surveys have continued thanks to the sterling efforts and enthusiasm of GWW volunteers. Remote surveys have also been able to be conducted in the eastern half of the GWW, with the support of an ABEF grant.
Your support will enable the Great Western Woodlands project to continue to give voice to the birds of the woodlands.
For more information on how your support counts, or if you would like to take part in ongoing surveys, visit the BirdLife WA GWW Website
