Our approach
Select Harvests has continued to commit resources towards sustainability, ensuring our business remains a valuable partner in the communities in which we operate, and that we are contributing positively towards the environment.
Our emphasis has been on responsible and proactive water management, and the management of wildlife in our almond orchards.
Environmental commitment
In conjunction with Charles Sturt University, the Victorian, New South Wales and South Australian Governments, Select Harvests has sponsored a number of projects aimed at ensuring native wildlife is not only protected in the orchard environment, but is able to be nurtured wherever possible.
Current research projects are focusing specifically on the Regent Parrot population. One project entitled, “The role of food resources in driving habitat occupancy and movement by Regent Parrots” involves the tracking of Regent Parrots in almonds and other foraging areas, and at breeding sites to determine home ranges and movement pathways. Dietary data has been collected along with surveying and mapping of available food sources. The projects involve the hiring of people from Select Harvests and the local Sunraysia community to work with PhD students to assist in the research.