Bushland Corridor Created near Perth, Australia
10/5/99
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Title: Bushland Corridor Created near Perth, Australia
Source: Environment News Service
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: October 5, 1999
PERTH, Australia, October 5, 1999 (ENS) - A natural bushland area
called The Leda Nature Reserve has been created in Kwinana, south of
Perth, Australia.
Leda Nature Reserve now joins the IP14 Conservation Park creating a
wide corridor of natural bushland along side the Kwinana-Mundijong
railway and bounded by Wellard Road.
The combined areas encompass a total area of 611 hectares (1,509
acres) of relatively undisturbed bushland.
The Western Australia Department of Conservation and Land Management
(CALM) has joined forces with the Town of Kwinana and local energy
producer Edison Mission to manage and enhance the area for the local
community and visitors.
CALM Executive Director Dr. Syd Shea said the large strip of bushland
provided a natural woodland buffer to the heavy industrial land use
occurring along the Kwinana coastal strip.
"Natural vegetation acts as both an air and sound pollutant 'sponge'
providing a cleaner, greener, and healthier environment to the local
Kwinana community," he said.
Shea said management and day-to-day works within these reserves would
be undertaken by CALM. Edison Mission Energy will assist through
sponsorship of environmental protection and revegetation projects.
Shea said both Leda Nature Reserve and the IP 14 Conservation Park
contain a wide diversity of spring flowering plants and are well
worth a visit over the next few months, springtime in the Southern
Hemisphere.