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Ensuring our energy supply is affordable and reduces the impacts of climate change is important to the City and wider community.
Traditional grid-electricity and gas are becoming more expensive and continue to rely on fossil fuels (coal and natural gas), which release greenhouse gas emissions. This means finding more efficient and renewable energy sources such as solar photo voltaic (PV) is becoming increasingly important.
The City has been working hard for many years to reduce our corporate carbon emissions and increase renewable energy use, helping to ensure we are doing our part to limit the impacts of climate change.
This includes setting ambitious but achievable targets, including:
- Source 100% of total electricity demand from renewable energy by 2030
- Reduce corporate carbon emissions by 70% by 2030.
Leading by example, the City also aims to empower its community to make informed energy choices.
These restoration projects are critical to ensuring the long-term survival of our native flora and fauna and their habitat.
- Brushfield Way drain restoration project
- Bushland protection fencing
- Bushland revegetation projects
- Lake Gwelup restoration
- Coastal revegetation projects
- Watermans Bay dune restoration project
- Signage upgrade
- Paths and beach access step upgrades
- Jackadder Lake wetland margin restoration
- Basalt Silver Topaz Bushland enhancement project.
Fencing and track upgrades
To date the Natural Areas team have upgraded fencing and access tracks in 40 bushland reserves across the city including Carine Regional Open Space, Dianella Regional Open Space, Richard Guelfi Reserve, Yokine Regional Open Space, Star Swamp, Lake Gwelup, Princess Wallington Reserve, Trigg Regional Open Space and Cottonwood Crescent Reserve.
Lake Gwelup restoration
A long-term project that will see the removal of invasive weeds such as Typha, and replaced with native Baumea sedges. The project will restore wildlife habitat and improve the aesthetics of the lake.
Natural Areas undertakes flora surveys every two years to monitor the progress of at risk species such as orchids. It is estimated that orchid populations have declined by 75% across the city due to people picking them.
The City's Natural Areas team undertake annual fauna surveys to track the progress of native wildlife, especially those species that are threatened, endangered or at risk due to human impacts.
Rusty Spider Orchid
Unlike most plants, orchids do not grow back once they are picked.
The Southern Brown Bandicoot or Quenda is a marsupial in decline and listed as Threatened - Priority 5 by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
They are found in four of the City’s bushland reserves as well some coastal dunes. Quendas are easily stressed and disturbances from people or their pets can death or females ejecting infants from their pouch.
Protecting Quenda's
The City asks your assistance by staying on tracks, avoid walking through the bush, keeping dogs on leash, and not allowing domestic cats to enter bushlands, wetlands or coastal dunes.
Careniup Wetlands Reserve, within the suburb of Gwelup, consists of a number of parcels of public open space that have been ceded to the City via the Special Control Area identified in the City’s Local Planning Scheme No.3.
With the majority of adjacent land developed and most of the public open space now ceded to the City, this Management Plan has been prepared to guide the future development and management of the reserve to ensure both the community’s future recreational needs are met and the site’s environmental and landscape qualities are preserved and enhanced.
