Threatened Species Protection Initiative- Community Volunteer Action Grants 2015 Project ID 2015CVA00001 Project Title Organisation Grant East Gippsland Rainforest Conservation Management Network Parklands Albury Wodonga ltd Friends of Campbells Creek Landcare Group (sponsored) $19,000 2015CVA00010 2015CVA00011 Perri-urban littoral rainforest stand improvement and community education program West Wodonga Nest-box Corridors Resurrection of Dianella amoena along Campbells Creek 2015CVA00014 2015CVA00017 Ribbons of Remnant Roadsides Caring for Bannockburn Bush Upper Goulburn Landcare Network (sponsored) Friends of the Bannockburn Bush Reserve (sponsored) $20,000 $19,310 2015CVA00018 Citizens Science threatened species training, monitoring & habitat restoration program Mid-Loddon Sub-Catchment Management Group (sponsored) $14,406 2015CVA00020 2015CVA00021 Mt. Worth Strzelecki Gum Biolink Community Based Monitoring of Threatened Species Habitat in the Otway Ranges Mt.Worth and District Landcare Group Inc Southern Otway Landcare Network $6,220 $19,660 2015CVA00023 2015CVA00025 Rabbit eradication for the protection of threatened species Gliders in the Goldfields - Providing habitat and raising awareness for the endangered Squirrel Glider Millewa-Carwarp Landcare Group Whroo Goldfields Conservation Management Network (sponsored) $16,500 $16,000 2015CVA00029 2015CVA00030 Australian Anchor Plant- protection; propagation; revegetation Future-proofing threatened species and their habitat within the Middle Yarra River catchment Campaspe River and Land Management group Middle Yarra Landcare Network (sponsored) $15,779 $19,968 2015CVA00031 2015CVA00032 Nest boxes for Brush-tailed Phascogale habitat and monitoring Endangered Reptiles Habitat Restoration and Improvement Friends of Brisbane Ranges Inc (sponsored) Cairnlea Conservation Reserves Committee of Management $9,300 $18,150 2015CVA00037 Friends of Sassafras Creek battle weed infestations to save seven threatened species in Sassafras Creek. Friends of Sassafras Creek Inc $19,900 2015CVA00040 Restoring the Woodland Habitat of the Leafy Greenhood on Cape Otway Southern Otway Landcare Network $17,204 2015CVA00042 Understanding Hopbush dieback and potential implications for Mildura Ogyris in north west Victoria Kulkyne Way Landcare Group 2015CVA00043 Boolarra South Landcare Threatened Species Training Workshops, and Onground Works Program Boolarra South Landcare (sponsored) $20,000 $5,562 $4,320 $17,800 2015CVA00046 2015CVA00048 2015CVA00049 Pinkerton Link Project Kids creating habitat for Cockies Delivering Habitat for Phascogales on Post Office Hill Pinkerton Landcare & Environment Group Inc Kowree Farm Tree Group (sponsored) Post Office Hill Action Hill Group (POHAG) (sponsored) $12,220 $17,900 $4,460 2015CVA00051 Northern Plains Grasslands Threatened Flora & Fauna Project Northern Plains Conservation Management Network $19,991 2015CVA00052 Community surveying and weed removal in Nyah-Vinifera Park. Friends of Nyah-Vinifera Forest - through Friends of the Earth Melbourne $12,100 2015CVA00053 2015CVA00058 Hooded Plover Nesting Sites Protection at Betka Beach Restoration of the Native Grasslands Areas within part of the Ararat Cemetery Creek Bio-Link. Friends of Mallacoota (sponsored) Ararat Reginal Bio-Links Network Inc. $2,000 $4,428 2015CVA00059 Protection and Recruitment of the depleted iconic Grey Grasstree(Xanthorrhoea glauca ssp. angustifolia) St Arnaud Field Naturalist Club Inc. $8,500 2015CVA00060 Expanding Orchid Conservation on Private Land in the Dunmoochin Landcare Region Dunmoochin Landcare Group $8,642 2015CVA00063 2015CVA00065 Mt Barker Temperate Woodland Bird Restoration Brush-tailed Phascogale Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation Hughes Creek Catchment Collaborative (sponsored) $19,900 $7,850 2015CVA00066 2015CVA00068 Nulliwal Threatened Species Revegetation Goschen Bushland Reserve - Community action to protect threatened flora and fauna Nullawil Landcare Group Lalbert Landcare Group (sponsored) $2,640 $18,000 2015CVA00069 2015CVA00070 2015CVA00071 Protecting Paddock Trees for Threatened Species Saving the Growling Grass frog from Chytrid Fungus Nesting boxes for hollow dependant threatened species in a fragmented landscape. Greta Valley Landcare Group Inc. Leigh Catchment Group Milawa Markwood Oxley Landcare Group $20,000 $10,640 $13,500 2015CVA00074 Striped Legless Lizard Surveys - Cluster 8, North East Vic. Strathbogie Ranges Conservation Management Network $17,000 2015CVA00075 Creating Homes and Habitat for Yackandandah Ck Threatened Species: - A community-led initiative Yackandandah Landcare Group (sponsored) $14,050 2015CVA00077 Turtons Creek survey for South Gippsland Spiny Crayfish and habitat rehabilitation Friends of Turtons Creek (sponsored) $20,000 2015CVA00078 2015CVA00082 2015CVA00083 Conservation of malleefowl in the Wychitella NCR Birchip Buloke Woodlands Protection Lathams Snipe Project Wedderburn Conservation Management Network Birchip Landcare Group (sponsored) South Beach Wetlands and Landcare Group $16,665 $17,600 $14,440 2015CVA00085 2015CVA00087 Artificial Hollows for the Endangered Masked Owl Raising Awareness of Threatened Grasslands and Their Species in the Moorabool Region Gippsland Plains Conservation Management Network Moorabool Catchment Landcare Group $18,000 $20,000 2015CVA00088 Develop surveys, training and data collection systems to improve the conservation status of Clasping Hypocreoposis Fungimap Inc $20,000 2015CVA00089 Protecting habitat values and mitigating threats to the Summer Leek Orchid in Pheasant Creek Reserve Koetong Landcare Group $16,740 2015CVA00090 Tall Astelia Recovery Project, Kurth Kiln Regional Park:- Phase 1 - Plant Propagation Friends of Kurth Kiln, Tall Astelia Recovery Group, Kurth Kiln Regional Park 2015CVA00092 2015CVA00093 2015CVA00097 2015CVA00098 Cardinia Creek Threatened Species Protection Program REWILDING KORONG RIDGE - SHORT STORY NURSERY Christmas Hills Community - Protecting our Threatened Species. Creating Growling Grass Frog and Orange-bellied Parrot habitat in 3 Creeks Cardinia Catchment Landcare Inc. Mt Korong Eco Watch (sponsored) Christmas Hills Landcare Group (sponsored) 3 Creeks Landcare Group $19,500 $8,800 $19,915 $20,000 2015CVA00099 Gippsland Red Gum Woodland Species Win Hearts through Community Engagement Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network $20,000 2015CVA00101 2015CVA00102 Protecting Our Fauna Through Empowering People Railway Reserve Links Wooragee Landcare Group (sponsored) Warrenbayne Boho Land Protection Group Inc. (sponsored) $12,700 $5,366 2015CVA00103 Matted and Tangled; Fine scale threat reduction for urban Matted Flax-lily populations Friends of Merri Creek (FoMC) $19,890 2015CVA00104 Holden the Ground - predator proofing and fox control at Holden Proving Ground Bass Valley Landcare Group $20,000 2015CVA00105 "Friends, Frogs and Fishes": practical community actions to help monitor and restore a wetland system Friends of Winton Wetlands (sponsored) $11,200 2015CVA00106 Bringing The Community Together To Tackle Threatened Species Conservation Jack and Albert River Restoration Committee (JARR) (sponsored) $20,000 2015CVA00107 2015CVA00109 Protecting and enhancing Warm Temperate Rainforest Mapping, Monitoring, Protecting and Enhancing Phillip Island Coastal Moonah Woodlands Binginwarri Landcare Group (sponsored) Phillip Island Landcare Group Inc (sponsored) $20,000 $20,000 2015CVA00110 2015CVA00112 Protecting Dwarf Galaxias in Watson Creek Catchment Protect and Connect - Restoring bushland on properties adjoining Peninsula Gardens Bushland Reserve Watson Creek Catchment Landcare Group (sponsored) Southwest Mornington Peninsula Landcare (sponsored) $19,800 $20,000 $3,850 2015CVA00114 Protecting the Powlett improving Australian Grayling and Orange Bellied Parrot habitat Powlett Project Landcare Group (sponsored) $20,000 2015CVA00115 "That's one giant leap!": increasing the availability of habitat for threatened Friends of Winton Wetlands (sponsored) arboreal mammals 2015CVA00118 Fabian's Threatened Flora and Fauna Species Survey Friends of Terrick Terrick National Park Inc. (sponsored) 2015CVA00122 2015CVA00123 2015CVA00125 Survey for the Cryptic Sun Moth Synemon theresa Port Campbell BioLinks – Threatened Species Protection Protecting Remnants, Enhancing Biodiversity and Linking Corridors Project Entomological Society of Victoria (sponsored) Port Campbell Public Purposes Reserve (sponsored) Upper Maribyrnong Catchment Group (sponsored) $7,150 $10,490 $20,000 2015CVA00127 2015CVA00129 Protecting Bibron's Habitat in Happy Valley Castlemaine, Stage 1 Baits, boxes and biodiversity corridors for Bush-stone Curlews and Squirrel Gliders in Longwood Plains Castlemaine Landcare Group (sponsored) Longwood Plains Conservation Management Network $4,120 $19,725 2015CVA00130 Rewilding Korong Ridge – Short-storey planting, retelling a threatened understorey. Mt Korong Eco-Watch (sponsored) $16,550 2015CVA00131 2015CVA00134 Honeysuckle Creek, Violet Town: A Hot-spot for Threatened Fauna Preservation, Protection and Restoration of Rainbow's Buloke Populations Violet Town Action Group Rainbow & District Landcare Group Inc. $19,156 $13,980 2015CVA00135 2015CVA00137 Copper Fields: Sustaining Change for the Eltham Copper Butterfly Kinglake Landcare Threatened species monitoring, survey, and revegetation Friends of the Eltham Copper Butterfly (sponsored) Kinglake Landcare Group (sponsored) $19,832 $19,000 2015CVA00141 2015CVA00143 2015CVA00145 Project Hindmarsh 2016 Muddy Creek Headwaters Biodiversity Protection Program Kilmore Monument Hill Reserve Threatened Species Conservation & Community Education Project. Hindmarsh Landcare Network Southern Ranges Environment Alliance Kilmore Mechanics Institute & Free Lending Library Inc. $20,000 $20,000 $11,660 2015CVA00146 2015CVA00147 What's in our patch - Silver Tea-tree Protecting and enhancing Giant Gippsland Earthworm and Strzelecki Gum Habitat in the upper Powlett catchment Ovens Landcare Network (sponsored) Korumburra Landcare Group (sponsored) $6,300 $20,000 2015CVA00148 2015CVA00150 Meredith Police Paddocks Threatened Species Project Improving the habitat for Southern Brown Bandicoot at Five Mile Reserve Meredith Police Paddocks Support Group (sponsored) Cardinia Environment Coalition Inc. $8,980 $13,860 2015CVA00151 Let the threatened natives thrive: let’s be rabbit free. Mt Rothwell Landcare Volunteers Inc. $20,000 $10,600 $9,480 2015CVA00153 Ullina and Talbot remnant Pimelea spinescens and VVP Grassland Awareness raising and on-ground Conservation Upper Loddon & Avoca Landcare Network 2015CVA00154 Ballarat Environment Network Threatened Species Project Ballarat Environment Network $9,220 $11,660