State NRM Program Community Grants
Successful projects - October 2012
Rangelands region
Project title
Proponent
Funding
Control and containment of Bellyache Bush on Lake Kununurra
Ord Land and Water
$17,000
Protection and preservation of the natural assets in priority locations on the Canning Stock Route
Track Care WA Inc
$50,000
Conserving threatened wildlife at Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay
Useless Loop Community Biosphere
Project Group
$34,000
Building community involvement in protecting the internationally threatened shorebirds of Roebuck Bay
Broome Bird Observatory
$10,940
Demonstrating erosion control on susceptible soils in the East Kimberley
Ord Land and Water
$18,000
Mesquite control on Nicholson Station
Ord Land and Water
$20,000
Gascoyne Junction flood recovery
Shire of Upper Gascoyne
$45,000
Pilbara freshwater fish education project: a field guide and underwater documentary
Freshwater Fish Group & Fish
Health Unit, Murdoch University
$35,000
Gascoyne River catchment conservation, restoration and rehabilitation
Upper Gascoyne LCDC
$25,000
Control of mesquite and parkinsonia within the Carnarvon Rangelands Biosecurity Association
Carnarvon Rangelands Biosecurity
Association
$50,000
Distribution and abundance survey of Aboriginal medicine tree B acuteangula along the Fitzroy River
Jarlmadangah Burra Aboriginal
Corporation
$50,000
Northern Agricultural region
Project title
Proponent
Funding
Weed mapping along the Chapman River
Shire of Chapman Valley
$12,000
Invasive species management and restoration works on the Moresby Ranges
Shire of Chapman Valley
$50,000
Moore Catchment Council
$45,000
Shire of Chapman Valley
$50,000
Centre for Marine Science and
Technology
$16,864
Revegetation of Long Bridge Gully tributary
Chittering Valley LCDC
$20,599
Restoring the Warradarge Creek to increase landscape connectivity in the West Midlands region.
West Midlands Group
$49,830
Planting feed species for Carnaby's Black Cockatoo in the Moora and Koobabbie Important Bird Areas
Catchment management of the Chapman River and its tributaries
Developing a photo identification software for individual recognition of Australian Sea Lions through a
community based approach
Wheatbelt region
Project title
Proponent
Funding
Community action to restore biodiversity to the central wheatbelt of WA
Wadderin Group
$29,737
Jam Patch protection
Lake Grace LCDC
$40,250
Hyden Progress Association
$40,000
Shire of Quairading
$50,000
Westonia vermin control stage 2
Shire of Westonia
$13,086
Malkup Brook restoration
Shire of Toodyay
$16,582
Shire of Kulin
$23,000
Shire of Merredin
$10,000
Quellington Restoration Group
$25,000
Survey for the endangered red-tailed phascogale in the eastern wheatbelt of WA
Integrated NRM in the Quairading, Tammin and Cunderdin shires
Shire of Kulin revegetation and native bushland protection
Revegetation of the Cohn Creek section and exhausted gravel reserves in Merredin
Friends of Mortlock and Mortlock South mid-catchment restoration - Duck Pool to Quailing Gully
Wheatbelt region continued…
Project title
Friends of Mortlock and Mortlock South mid-catchment restoration - Duck Pool to Northam
Communities working together to control feral pests for environmental conservation
Proponent
Funding
Meenar Mortlock Catchment
Group
$25,000
Shire of Kellerberrin
$25,000
Perth region
Project title
Ensuring the ongoing protection of endangered and threatening species at Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary
Restoration of the ecological integrity of the Marine Park foreshore in Alfred Cove - stage 1
Extension of urban forest weed control
Rehabilitation of the upper Lesmurdie Falls
Cape Tulip control and eradication in Bush Forever site 325
Revegetation and habitat rehabilitation within Bibra Lake
Mullaloo dune rehabilitation stage 2
Lake Claremont revegetation extension
Removal/realignment of cycle trails from Reservoir protection area and access trails to disease risk area
Weed control and dieback treatment, Bungendore Park and adjacent land.
Kalamunda Phytophthora dieback interpretation and invasive species control
Proponent
Funding
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
$48,485
Swan Estuary Reserves Action
Group Inc
$21,089
Canning River Regional Park
Volunteers
$18,220
Jillara Giants
$24,275
Friends of North Ocean Reef - Iluka
Foreshore
$13,470
Cockburn Wetlands Education
Centre Inc
$24,205
Mullaloo Beach Community Group
$10,000
Friends of Lake Claremont
$50,000
Western Australian Mountain Bike
Association
$44,200
Bungendore Park Management
Committee
$18,000
Shire of Kalamunda
$14,873
Perth region continued…
Project title
Canning River foreshore restoration
Proponent
Funding
SERCUL
$50,000
Friends of John Forrest National
Park
$24,700
SERCUL
$40,300
Jane Brook Community Association
$50,000
Murdoch Environmental
Restoration Group
$48,000
Eastern Metropolitan Regional
Council
$50,000
Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group
$48,600
SERCUL
$32,900
Blackadder/Woodbridge
Catchment Group Inc
$21,500
Friends of Paganoni Swamp
$17,000
Helping the Helena - water quality monitoring of pollutants for linkages in fish and mussel decline
Eastern Metropolitan Regional
Council
$37,500
Protection of endangered species at Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary through feral animal control
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
$23,033
Detailed Phytophthora dieback assessments and bushland condition mapping in the Town of Kwinana's
natural areas
Town of Kwinana
$25,646
Weed control, habitat protection and environmental education program Mardo Reserve and road verge
around Mundaring Primary School
Mundaring Primary School
$23,750
Woodvale Waters Land Owners
Association Inc
$10,000
War on Watsonia in John Forrest National Park - protecting the declared rare flora Diplolaena andrewsii
Protecting, maintaining and restoring refuges for aquatic life within the Yule Brook waterway and Bickley
reservoir
Jane Brook foreshore reserve rehabilitation
Biodiversity management of Beeliar Regional Park
Saving a keystone species and the integrity of the ecosystem
Palomino seasonal damp zone
Restoring the Bickley Brook foreshore upstream of the Bickley Reservoir
North Swan Park species richness
Control of significant weeds on Paganoni Rd's southern road reserve ecological corridor
Yellagonga Regional Park Woodvale revegetation enhancement
South west region
Project title
Qualeup Lakes improvement
Proponent
Funding
Blackwood Basin Group
$29,700
Cape to Cape Catchments Group
$50,000
Baldivis Children’s Forest Inc
$30,690
Dumbleyung LCDC
$45,000
Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale
$49,600
West Arthur Declared Species
Group
$25,000
Landcare SJ Inc
$10,000
John Tonkin College Bushrangers
Cadet Program
$10,000
Katanning LCDC
$45,000
Ngalang Boodja Council Aboriginal
Corporation Inc
$40,500
Southern Dirt
$15,000
Revegetation of Nangip catchment to reduce threats of salinity in Nangip Reserve
Friends of Nangip Creek
$50,000
Regenerating the Wattle Creek catchment
Blackwood Basin Group
$50,000
Maximising environmental value of remnant native vegetation: a blueprint for landholders
Warren Catchments Council
$50,000
Restoration of Ferguson River vegetation in the locality of Wellington Mills
Wellington Mills Community
Association
$26,942
Gynudup Brook and Tren Creek River Action Plan review and strategic fencing
Geographe Catchment Council
$34,000
Riparian management on recovery streams in the Geographe Catchment
Geographe Catchment Council
$36,000
Development and implementation of the Calgardup Brook action plan
Revegetation of tuart woodlands, feral bee control and learning through community engagement and action.
Sustainably managing the catchments surrounding the Dumbleyung Lake
“Healthy Habitats” – a national award-winning Stewardship Program for conservation of biodiversity on
private property
Understanding population influences and continuing to control feral pigs in the Shire of West Arthur
Reducing the threats in the nationally significant Brickwood Reserve Byford
Construction and erection of bat/possum boxes to be used in the JTC LfW site
Combined communities control of creepy WONS
Conservation and restoration of flora and fauna at the Jack Mears Park spring, Collie
A Nobleman's Folly - revegetating and protecting Cockatoo Creek Catchment
South west region continued…
Project title
Control of blackberry and arum lily, and site revegetation on the Serpentine River
Proponent
Funding
Serpentine Jarrahdale LCDC
$15,400
Mottram St Reserve returning a significant stream and forest reserve towards their natural state - stage 3
Shire of Manjimup
$49,200
Preston Lake trail upgrade
Shire of Waroona
$20,000
Blackwood Basin Group
$50,000
Building community and industry capacity to achieve water quality outcomes
Geographe Catchment Council
$42,700
Busselton urban wetland restoration
Geographe Catchment Council
$29,564
Ecological restoration of Geographe streams
Geographe Catchment Council
$39,250
Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone
$10,000
Shire of West Arthur
$35,000
Managing salinity in the Dinninup catchment
SalinitySync - A sub-catchment approach to planning and implementing large scale saline land rehabilitation
Riparian protection and revegetation on Omaru and Carragaline properties in the Manywaters catchment
South coast region
Project title
Proponent
Advancing weed control and community involvement at Dunns Swamp
Ravensthorpe Agricultural Initiative
Network
$15,980
Fitzgerald Biosphere Group
$33,000
City of Albany
$26,000
Friends of Fitzgerald River National
park
$40,000
Albany Racing Club Inc
$38,250
Green Skills
$50,000
Celebrating 30 yrs of Landcare in the Fitzgerald Biosphere
Biodiversity conservation through the stabilisation of 4WD tracks within the Lowlands coastal reserve
Restoration of the Twertup Field Studies Centre, Fitzgerald River National Park
Protecting the biodiversity and integrity of the Torndirrup Nature Reserve from environmental weed threats
Sydney wattle eradication pilot on Torndirrup Peninsular
Funding
South coast region continued…
Project title
Restoration of Poison Point and access restriction
Forests to Stirling Gondwana Link - from plans to action
Protecting the integrity of the Wellstead and Pallinup biodiversity from the threat of weed invasion.
Mt Barker urban wetland restoration
Phase 2: Centennial Park wetland living stream restoration
Proponent
Funding
Shire of Denmark
$18,000
Green Skills Inc
$30,000
Wellstead Community Resource
Centre
$43,210
Shire of Plantagenet
$40,000
City of Albany
$29,000