Conservation

With its vast tracts of banksia woodland and melaleuca damplands, Whiteman Park is a significant conservation reserve that boasts a huge number of native flora and fauna species.

Nearly half of the Park’s land is retained for the conservation of wildlife, providing a protected habitat for a wealth of plant and animal species native to the area too. Here, in the midst of suburbia, you can still see kangaroos grazing, goannas basking in the sunshine and wildflowers blooming throughout the year.

Although sections of the southern and eastern areas of the Park were cleared and used for grazing during the 1930s and 1940s, significant vegetation corridors have been retained. Management of remaining tracts of natural bushland, in conjunction with the rehabilitation of degraded areas, is enriching the existing biodiversity values of the Park.