South West traditional fire management workshops to share safety

South West residents will have the chance to learn traditional methods of fire management that reduce risk to local wildlife and enhance native bushland, at collaborative workshops this month.

The Undalup Association and South West Catchments Council are working together to deliver the workshops, which will see Wadandi-Pibulman custodian Iszaac Webb share how the traditional owners of the land undertake fire management.

The workshops serve as an effort to protect the South West’s threatened species, including western ringtail possums, chuditch, woylies and numbats — which have made headlines recently after a prescribed burn is believed to have wiped out a small population of the endangered marsupials near Manjimup.

Knowledge of best practice techniques will be passed on to local landholders, who will have the opportunity to watch a traditional burn take place.

Walsall near Busselton and Argyle near Donnybrook will host workshops from 9am to 12pm on May 22 and May 29 respectively.

Register at swccnrm.org.au/events.