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