Community Environment Grants
2013-2014 Successful projects
ACT
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
ACT / Norfolk Island Flora & Fauna Society Inc. / Norfolk Island Invasive Species Month at / $50,105.00
ACT / CONSERVATION COUNCIL ACT REGION INCORPORATED / Reducing impacts of domestic animals on ecological values at the urban edge / $46,000.00
Total / $96,105.00
NSW
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
NSW / Dairy Youth Australia Incorporated / Cross Community Partnerships to maintain and enhance ecosystem services / $55,000.00
NSW / Office Of Environment And Heritage (National Parks & Wildlife Service) (Local Government Entity) / Biodiversity education in three Shoalhaven priority target areas / $40,000.00
NSW / Brunswick Valley Landcare Incorporated / Increasing community capacity to manage ecologically sensitive landcare sites. / $38,665.00
NSW / Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group Inc. / Engaging landholders and community in restoring endangered rainforest / $34,617.00
NSW / Tuckombil Landcare Incorporated / Tuckombil Landcare Teven Memorial Reserve Bush Regeneration Connectivity Project / $22,280.00
NSW / Richmond Landcare Incorporated / Artificial hollows and habitat enhancement for Gliders_ Frogs & Koalas / $17,215.00
NSW / Weddin Landcare Steering Committee Incorporated / Bogolong Creek Rehabilitation Phase 1: wetlands & lowlands / $22,000.00
NSW / Yarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation / Manam-gurrilma - Be Strong / $54,351.00
NSW / Trees In Newcastle / Connecting coastal vegetation & volunteers from Leggy Point to Burwood Beach / $55,000.00
NSW / Kiama Municipal Council / Restoring and protecting riparian connectivity along Jerrara Creek / $48,000.00
NSW / Friends Of The Koala / Repair and connect primary koala habitat Hillcrest Reserve Zone 2 / $19,420.00
NSW / Roslyn Landcare Group Inc / Re-Establishing and Linking Local Native Wildlife Corridors across S. Tablelands / $47,938.00
NSW / Hovells Creek Landcare Group Incorporated / Biodiversity Protection and Habitat Rehabilitation on Lachlan Valley Farmland / $53,680.00
NSW / Upper Gwydir Landcare Association Incorporated / Sharing Learnings and Linking Gwydir Land Managers_ Bingara NSW / $53,570.00
NSW / Wolli Creek Preservation Society Nsw Incorporated / Canopy Rescue and Habitat Connectivity in the Western Wolli Valley - Cooks River / $49,540.00
NSW / Bellinger Landcare Inc / Awareness and up-skilling in biodiversity management for ecosystem services / $19,525.00
NSW / Mogo Local Aboriginal Land Council / Building the capacity to "care for country" through the Mogo Land and Sea Plan / $46,805.00
NSW TOTAL / $677,606.00
NT
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
NT / Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation / Reduce impact of marine debris on the coastal environment of the Dhimurru IPA. / $54,450.00
NT / Batchelor Institute Of Indigenous Tertiary Education / Kungarakan & Warai Landcare Project Planning / $50,380.00
NT Total / $104,830
QLD
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
QLD / Capricorn Coast Landcare Group Incorporated / Empowering the Capricorn Coast community to protect & enhance the environment. / $10,340.00
QLD / Australian Tropical Research Foundation / Restoring, protecting and increasing biodiversity in Daintree lowlands. / $48,675.00
QLD / Coolum District Coast Care Group Inc / Coolum Region Dune and Coastal Remediation and Revegetation / $50,270.00
QLD / Friends Of The Escarpment Parks Toowoomba Inc / Redwood Park Rainforest Fauna and Flora Rescue / $50,000.00
QLD / Alngith Corporation Limited / Developing the Alngith Caring for Country Plan / $55,000.00
QLD / Kuranda Envirocare Inc / Frog Friendly face for our local Jum Rum creek / $8,745.00
QLD / Gulf Horizons Foundation Ltd / Gulf Kids Environment Day 2013 / $20,130.00
QLD / Reef Check Foundation Limited / Sharing the Reef Check Story: 10 years of data and what's to come / $55,000.00
QLD / Fauna & Flora International Australia / Grey Nurse Shark Watch - monitoring an Australian Critically Endangered species / $44,561.00
QLD / Desert Channels Queensland Incorporated / Protecting culturally and environmentally significant sandhills of the Outback. / $27,830.00
QLD / Pittsworth District Landcare Association Incorporated / Building Pittsworth Landcare capacity to involve our community in conservation / $55,000.00
QLD / Condamine Headwaters Landcare Group Inc / Corridor Critters - see it, touch it, understand it / $27,786.00
QLD TOTAL / $453,337.00
SA
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
SA / Conservation Council Of South Australia Incorporated / Feral or In Peril / $54,472.00
SA / Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board / Diving deeper – expanding community stewardship of Kangaroo Island's rocky reefs / $32,820.00
SA / Murray Mallee Local Action Planning Association Inc / Regenerative native grassland agriculture on large scale low rainfall farms / $54,890.00
SA / Birdlife Australia Ltd. / Novel threat management for Malleefowl and ground-dwelling fauna / $15,356.00
SA / Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board / Kangaroo Island Community Shorebirds Project / $23,640.00
SA / Riverland West Local Action Planning Association Inc / Building community capacity to connect with and sustainably manage wetlands / $17,402.00
SA / Mantung Maggea Land Management Group Inc / Monitoring effects of fox control on Malleefowl in the Mantung Maggea area. / $3,150.00
SA TOTAL / $201,730.00
TAS
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
TAS / Wildcare Incorporated / Ongoing habitat restoration and monitoring on Maatsuyker Island WHA / $47,680.00
TAS / Tasmanian Land Conservancy Inc. / Ongoing restoration of important natural values in Tasmania's Central Highlands / $36,432.00
TAS / King Island Natural Resource Management Group Inc. / Protecting 'Coastal Complex on King Island' and 'Boggy Creek Geoheritage Site' 2 / $14,839.00
TAS / Tamar Region Natural Resource Management Strategy Reference Group Inc / Understanding Coastal Environs Amidst Change: to generate community action / $51,700.00
TAS TOTAL / $150,651.00
VIC
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
VIC / Regent Honeyeater Project Inc / Biodiversity rescue - protecting restoring connecting threatened species habitat / $33,000.00
VIC / Brisbane Ranges Landcare Group / Brisbane Ranges - Port Phillip Bay Biolink (Stage 2) Revised / $49,200.00
VIC / Pentland Hills Landcare Group Inc / Stony Hut Creek Biolink - Stage 2: Linking the forests / $55,000.00
VIC / Northern Plains Conservation Management Network Inc. / Plains Wanderer survey on the Natural Grasslands of the Murray Valley Plains / $13,200.00
VIC / Mudgegonga & District Landcare Group / Mudgegonga Building Resilience / $36,245.00
VIC / Upper Barwon Landcare Network / Protecting and enhancing environmental values in the Upper Barwon catchment / $54,560.00
VIC / Friends Of Eastern Otways (Great Otway National Park) Inc / Heathy Woodland restoration adjacent to Anglesea River / $8,500.00
VIC / Vff Farm Tree And Landcare Association Incorporated / A Strategy for Reducing Herbicide Pollution in Australia / $46,500.00
VIC / Project Platypus Association Inc / Upper Wimmera Sallow Wattle control / $42,350.00
VIC / Friends Of Iramoo Inc / The Grasslands of Iramoo – Biodiversity and Connectivity in an Urban Environment / $48,250.00
VIC / Broken Catchment Landcare Network Inc / Gecko on Google / $5,500.00
VIC / Wedderburn Conservation Management Network / Habitat restoration within a decommissioned eucalyptus oil harvesting site / $49,830.00
VIC / Ballarat Environment Network Inc. / Enhancing Community Biodiversity Awareness through the BEN Biodiversity Reserves / $55,000.00
VIC / Upper Goulburn Landcare Network / Lorax Project 2014 / $47,300.00
VIC / The Trustee For Framlingham Aboriginal Trust / Mammal Surveying_ Revegetation & Capacity Building in Framlingham Forest / $54,714.00
VIC / Merton Landcare Inc / Protecting paddock trees on farms / $50,000.00
VIC / Mallee Landcare Group Inc / Mallee landcare Cactus control program / $49,940.00
TOTAL / $699,089.00
WA
State / Recipient / Project Title / Funding(GST Incl)
WA / South East Regional Centre For Urban Landcare Inc / Extension of biodiversity along the Canning River floodplains & wetlands. / $39,523.00
WA / Cape To Cape Catchments Group / Tackling emerging WONS in the Cape to Cape Catchments / $20,000.00
WA / Yarra Yarra Catchment Management Group Incorporated / Options for improving biodiversity in the paddock in the Yarra Yarra catchment / $34,045.00
WA / West Midlands Group Incorporated / Extending Wildlife Habitat by Rehabilitating Priority Coastal and Inland Areas / $27,852.00
WA / Environs Kimberley Inc / SKIPA: Monsoon Vine Thickets of the Dampier Peninsula / $55,000.00
WA / Friends Of Lake Claremont Limited / Extension of the Wetland Buffer of the South Eastern Shore of Lake Claremont. / $55,000.00
WA / Peel-Harvey Catchment Council Inc / Strategic weed control & revegetation in the Harvey River Basin / $54,670.00
WA / Nyamba Buru Yawuru Ltd / Enhancing the capacity of Yawuru Rangers to protect and manage Roebuck Bay / $49,995.00
WA TOTAL / $336,085.00
NATIONAL TOTAL / $2,719,433