{"id":22,"date":"2016-12-01T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T09:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/block-blog.localhost\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-07-25T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:54:16","slug":"banksia-woodlands-declared-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/banksia-woodlands-declared-endangered\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksia woodlands declared endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain have recently been declared an endangered ecological community<\/strong> by the federal government.<\/p>\n bushblock is located within?the Swan?Coastal Plain and has a fenced Banksia woodland which provides a?protected habitat for a number of threatened species including Southern Brown Bandicoots?and Glossy-leaved Hammer Orchid<\/a> (Drakaea elastica<\/em>). There is a combination of Candlestick Banksia<\/a> (Banksia attenuata<\/em>) and Holy-leaved Banksia<\/a> (Banksia ilicifolia<\/em>) growing within this area.<\/p>\n Near?60 per cent of Western Australia’s Banksia woodlands have already been lost and the threats to remaining patches persists.?Land clearing, diseases (e.g.?Phytophthora<\/a><\/em>), invasive weeds and feral animals, changes to fire regimes, hydrological degradation, climate change, all continue to?whittle away this unique ecosystem. The formal recognition<\/a> of the value of this ecosystem and will encourage programs to further protect these Woodlands into the future.<\/p>\n The?areas of Banksia woodlands?used to be well connected but are now highly fragmented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n Primary threats to bushblock’s banksia woodland are grazing pressures (kangaroo & rabbit), rainfall and groundwater decline, and disease (Phytophthora dieback).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n The Banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain have recently been declared an endangered ecological community by the federal government. bushblock is located within?the Swan?Coastal Plain and has a fenced Banksia woodland which provides a?protected habitat for a number of threatened species including Southern Brown Bandicoots?and Glossy-leaved Hammer Orchid (Drakaea elastica). There is a combination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bushblock.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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How will this declaration affect bushblock?<\/h5>\n
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Further Reading<\/h6>\n
\nBanksia Woodlands Nomination as a Threatened Ecological Community<\/a>
\nEcoCheck: Perth?s Banksia woodlands are in the path of the sprawling city<\/a>
\nBANKSIA WOODLANDS: A restoration guide for the Swan Coastal Plain<\/a>
\nHousing to swallow yet another of Perth’s threatened banksia woodlands<\/a>
\nScientists fear Kings Park’s banksia woodlands could become ‘museum piece’
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