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NESP RL Project 3.3 - Enhancing the resilience of urban rivers: informing the regional restoration of the Djarlgaroo Beeliar (Canning River, Perth)

Dates

Start Date
01-Mar-2023
End Date
31-Dec-2026

Titles

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NESP RL Project 3.3 - Enhancing the resilience of urban rivers: informing the regional restoration of the Djarlgaroo Beeliar (Canning River, Perth)
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Start Date
01-Mar-2023
End Date
31-Dec-2026
Language
English

Descriptions

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Creating resilient urban rivers that protect biodiversity requires strategic landscape-level prioritisation, targeted on-ground actions and appropriate monitoring of future outcomes. This project seeks to achieve this using the Djarlgarro Beeliar (Canning River, Western Australia) as a case study. It will build on research from the first phase of the National Environmental Science Program and work collaboratively with key stakeholders, including Whadjuk Noongar Traditional Owners, to help implement and evaluate the Australian Government’s Urban Rivers and Catchments Program.

In urban spaces, restoration efforts targeted towards freshwater systems largely rely on short-term grants that are directed toward revegetation. The local government agencies and natural resource management (NRM) and community groups that do this work are limited by jurisdictional boundaries and aren’t funded to determine which areas to prioritise for restoration at a landscape scale. These groups are also not resourced to evaluate the success or failure of previous restoration activities, limiting capacity to learn and improve. Landscape-scale knowledge combined with an assessment of previous restoration efforts is needed to know which sites should be prioritised and which actions taken to maximise return on investment. Information gathered can also be used to identify appropriate indicators to guide future monitoring.

This project will inform the implementation and evaluation of restoration work, including the $10 million committed by the Australian Government towards the ecological repair of sites along the Djarlgarro Beeliar. We’ll provide maps and decision-support tools to guide where to protect, where to restore, what best to do at each site and how to monitor to evaluate success. Our case study on the Djarlgarro Beeliar will provide outcomes useful to urban-restoration activities more broadly, including the Australian Government’s Urban Rivers and Catchments Program.

Key research areas

To address these challenges and equip restoration groups with information to protect, manage and restore urban rivers, this project is:

  • assessing current condition of the Canning​
  • identifying priority areas to protect, manage or restore​
  • evaluating past restoration actions​
  • recommending what to do at priority sites ​
  • recommending what and how to monitor.

Pathway to impact

This project will support healthier urban rivers by:

  • improving understanding of river condition, values and threats
  • identifying priority areas for protection and restoration
  • helping practitioners choose effective on-ground actions
  • providing decision-support tools and monitoring advice to guide future restoration.
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Contributors

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Organisations

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The University of Western Australia

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2023-03-01
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Morris, L., Beesley, Leah S., Stevens, Emma R., Gwinn, Daniel C., Hyde, J., Thompson, S., Gleeson, Deirdre B., & Douglas, Michael M. (2024). Active eDNA Is More Cost‐Effective Than Fyke Nets or Passive eDNA Collection When Monitoring the Invasion of an Alien Freshwater Fish. Environmental DNA, 6(5). Portico.
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Stevens, E. R., Hyde, J., Beesley, L. S., Gwinn, D. C., Thompson, S., Morris, L., Wilson, P. R., & Gleeson, D. B. (2024). Fishy Business—Assessing the Efficacy of Active and Passive eDNA to Describe the Fish Assemblage of a River in Southwestern Western Australia to Support Effective Monitoring. Environmental DNA, 6(6). Portico.
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Freestone, F. L., Canham, C. A., Setterfield, S. A., Tayer, T. C., Beesley, L. S., & Douglas, M. M. (2026). How Can We Improve If We Don’t Measure? Evaluation of Riparian Revegetation Projects Prevented by Lack of Monitoring Data. Ecological Management & Restoration, 27(1). Portico.
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University of Western Australia, beesley, leah, Morris, L., Stevens, E., Gwinn, D., Hyde, J., Thompson, S., gleeson, deirdre, & Douglas, M. (2024). Assessing the distribution of the invasive Pearl Cichlid in the Canning River, Perth, Western Australia [Dataset]. University of Western Australia.
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