Wandi, Western Australia
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Wandi is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
, located within the Town of Kwinana. The suburb was approved on 14 March 1978.
The suburb is zoned Special Rural, which prevents the loss of trees from clearing. The land of Wandi is bushland, and some of it is part of the Jandakot Regional Park.
Wandi was named after a highly regarded Aboriginal stockman, who drove sheep into Cockburn Sound for anchorage butchers in the 1920s.
Wandi is also known for the amount of diverse alpacas that live there; many of which often escape. These alpacas are usually joked about among the locals as being "rogue alpacas".
A Chuditch or Western Quoll
(Dasyurus geoffroii ), an endangered carnivorous marsupial not seen in the Perth area for nearly twenty years, was located in Wandi in March 2009.
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, located within the Town of Kwinana. The suburb was approved on 14 March 1978.
The suburb is zoned Special Rural, which prevents the loss of trees from clearing. The land of Wandi is bushland, and some of it is part of the Jandakot Regional Park.
Wandi was named after a highly regarded Aboriginal stockman, who drove sheep into Cockburn Sound for anchorage butchers in the 1920s.
A Chuditch or Western Quoll
Western Quoll
The western quoll , also known as the chuditch or western native cat, is a medium sized predator and like its eastern and northern relatives, has a white-spotted brown coat and a long tail. It is most closely related to the eastern quoll from which it differs in possessing a first toe on the...
(Dasyurus geoffroii ), an endangered carnivorous marsupial not seen in the Perth area for nearly twenty years, was located in Wandi in March 2009.