Future Yule Brook Regional Park
This strategy for the future Yule Brook Regional Park has encompassed landscape planning, mapping and advocacy for one of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world, extending through Perth’s eastern suburbs. From forests, to falls, to floodplain.
As development encroaches, a strategy for design together with conservation is vital. Over 10 kilometres, Mandoorn – Yule Brook and the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands makes up a 702-hectare corridor – an area of ongoing advocacy with The Beeliar Group for a future Yule Brook Regional Park.
This regional conservation protection is now urgent. The south west of Western Australia is one of 36 internationally-recognised biodiversity hotspots. Often expressed as an accolade, a hotspot is in fact a condemnation. The classification is given where globally significant biodiversity is in escalating conflict with human impacts. The highest concentrations of biodiversity in WA’s south west occur within four regions: the Fitzgerald Biosphere, the Stirling Ranges, Lesueur National Park and the Perth metropolitan region.
A Yule Brook Regional Park would contain around 70 percent of the floral species in each of these megadiverse regions, concentrated in less than one percent of the area. There are 857 endemic species of flora here, 58 rare and threatened flora, and 11 federally-listed threatened ecological communities.
In July 2023, The Beeliar Group of scientists and professors determined that the industrial rezoning surrounding the corridor could not go ahead without strong likelihood of extreme environmental impacts. The Beeliar Group put forward a solution that would limit the industrial area by just 27% while protecting this trove of biodiversity for future generations.
Read The Beeliar Group’s July 2023 ‘Vision for a Future Yule Brook Regional Park’
Read ‘Ancient landscapes, remnant landscapes’ at Landscape Architecture Australia
Landscape strategy
2022–2023
Collaborators
The Beeliar Group, Hans Lambers, Andrea Gaynor and Alice Ford
Landscape planning; Landscape strategy; Advocacy
