Nature’s Beauty Revealed walk: Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick

The Armadale and Gosnells regions are blessed with numerous bush reserves, many of them cared for by local volunteers.

Walk with Greg and Bronwen Keighery, internationally renowned Perth botanists, through the Brixton Street Wetlands.

The Greater Brixton Street Wetlands, Kenwick (Bush Forever Site 387) is the most floristically diverse site on the Swan Coastal Plain and has many more species than Kings Park.  It is located on the very flat, waterlogged Pinjarra Plain at the base of the Darling Range in an area that has largely been cleared for agriculture or housing. The wetlands are less than 20 km south of the Perth CBD, in an area between Roe Highway, Albany Highway and Kenwick Road in Kenwick.

While the wetlands only cover 19 hectares, they contain many different vegetated wetlands with fringing vegetation in or near to the original condition, support an outstanding flora diversity with at least 518 native taxa and comprising a third of the taxa recorded on the Swan Coastal Plain.  This includes many plant communities that are rare or endangered and in need of species protection.

The Wetlands support over 80 special wildflowers that are either rare and endangered, or have only recently been discovered by botanists, or are uncommon on the Swan Coastal Plain. They are also habitat for the Quenda (Southern Brown Bandicoot), waterbirds and many native terrestrial and aquatic animals as well as for endangered Carnaby’s Cockatoo.

Meet at Alton Street, Kenwick.

Please wear suitable clothing and footwear and bring water.