2012-13 business plan successful projects.
Business plan projects funded through the
open call process.
NATIONAL
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
BIRDLIFE AUSTRALIA
LTD.
This project uses beach-nesting birds
(e.g. Hooded Plovers and Fairy Terns)
as flagships for engaging coastal
communities in onground works,
raising awareness of beaches as
habitat, and monitoring the health of
bird populations. Social research will
assist with exploring feasible ways of
balancing recreation with
conservation needs, focusing on
critical aquatic ecosystems.
This project will use flagship bird
species to engage communities in
managing native habitat to reduce
critical threats to nationally
threatened woodland birds and
ecological communities in southeastern Australia. The project will
utilise systematic prioritisation tools
and identify restoration sites to
increase landscape scale
connectivity, strengthening the
opportunity for these species to
adapt to a changing climate.
This project will improve
management practices of land
under-grazing by identifying
biocontrol agent distribution gaps by
surveying sites. It will fill gaps and
enhance the integration of biological
control with other weed
management, improving knowledge
Coastal
communities
protecting beach
nesting birds: a
flagship for coasts
OC13-00390
BIRDLIFE AUSTRALIA
LTD.
Woodland Birds
for Biodiversity
OC13-00430
DEPARTMENT OF
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Promoting
sustainable farm
practices with
weed bio-control
agentsOC13-00145
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
$346,720
$547,800
$198,000
of farmers and other land managers
of the use and benefits of these
agents.
DIRECTOR OF
NATIONAL PARKS
Producing
essential seed for
the restoration of
threatened
grassland
communities
OC13-00678
MALLEE SUSTAINABLE
FARMING INC
Communicating
Sustainable Farm
Practices to Young
Mallee Farmers
OC13-00385
NATURE
CONSERVATION
COUNCIL OF NSW
Restoring habitat
for national
threatened species
in the Border
ranges region
OC13-00254
OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
Helping
communities
reduce the impact
of weeds:
Asparagus Best
Practice
ManualOC13-
This project will produce large
volumes of seed to help restore two
ecologically and financially
unsustainable natural temperate
grassland sites in the Canberra
region. Seed production areas will be
established at the Australian
National Botanic Gardens and
Greening Australia, and monitored
by the CSIRO who will provide
genetic testing to maximise seed
quality for self-sustaining and
evolutionarily adaptive grasslands.
This project will explore
communication methods to achieve
greater adoption of sustainable
farming practices that reduce wind
erosion and improve soil carbon
levels in the dry-land agricultural
Mallee region. The project will
increase the knowledge and skills of
at least 80 farmers and improve
management practices on 165,500
ha of agricultural land.
This project will implement targeted
fire management strategies within
the Border Ranges to restore critical
habitat for the nationally
endangered Eastern Bristlebird,
Hastings River Mouse and state
listed Eastern Chestnut Mouse. An
alliance of regional agencies and
community representatives will use
fire and weed management to
improve habitat quality and food
resourcing for these species.
$363,000
This project will develop an
Asparagus weeds best practice
manual that consolidates control and
management information, including
distribution, biology and ecology.
The project will engage extensively
with community groups and land
$60,280
$238,876
$125,125
SOUTH EAST NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
00261
managers to collect knowledge and
experience and ensure the relevance
of the freely-available manual.
Strategic
biodiversity
corridor
enhancement
This project will protect important
corridors of threatened vegetation in
the Upper South East of South
Australia and the western Wimmera
in Victoria. The project includes
actions to reduce total grazing
pressure, protect remnant corridors
of Buloke Woodlands, Grey Box
Grassy Woodlands and Phebalium
Lowanense, and manage rabbit
populations.
OC13-00273
$165,000
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
ADMINISTRATION OF
NORFOLK ISLAND
Argentine Ants pose a serious threat
to Norfolk Island's biodiversity, and
despite the success of baiting and
surveying programs, remnant
colonies exist. This project will
continue to treat and survey
infestations in order to maintain the
eradication effort.
Pest eradication
on Norfolk Island
OC13-00425
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
$91,300
NEW SOUTH WALES
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
BARKINDJI MARAURA
ELDERS ENVIRONMENT
TEAM LIMITED
Tradition meets
Science Appropriate
Management of
Country
OC13-00416
BLUE MOUNTAINS
CITY COUNCIL
Cabomba weed
control in
Glenbrook Lagoon
(Phase 1), NSW
OC13-00206
BORDER RIVERSGWYDIR CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Harrisia Cactus
Impact Reduction
in Threatened
Ecological
Communities in
NSW
OC13-00522
BORDER RIVERSGWYDIR CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Rebuilding the
West: Flood
Recovery & Future
Readiness for
Climate
VariabilityOC1300671
Ten Aboriginal trainees in
environmental management will
carry out ecological assessments and
onground works at floodplain and
wetland sites in the Fletchers Lake
Reserve. A management plan that
integrates Traditional Ecological
Knowledge will be developed to
restore and enhance biodiversity.
Trainees will learn data management
and analysis techniques and assist in
writing a report to guide ongoing
works.
The high priority outlier Cabomba
infestation at Glenbrook Lagoon in
the Blue Mountains, poses a major
risk of spreading further into the
nearby Hawkesbury-Nepean River,
Blue Mountains World Heritage
National Park and the Sydney
drinking water catchment. This
project will involve a site based
approach integrating best practice
methods, with results used to inform
future management at this site and
other Cabomba sites nationally.
$319,000
This project will work with land
managers in the North West of the
Border Rivers Gwydir catchment, to
implement onground works that
protect and enhance threatened
ecological communities of Weeping
Myall Open Woodland, Brigalow,
Semi-Evergreen Vine Thicket and the
critically endangered community of
Natural Grasslands on Basalt and
Fine Textured Alluvial soils. The
project continues an existing project
that is reducing the impacts of
invasive weed species Harrisia
cactus.
This project will assist flood-affected
landholders in the north west of the
Border Rivers and Gwydir
subcatchments by stabilising and
revegetating riparian areas and
reducing future soil loss. The project
will allow landholders to better
prepare for and respond to climate
change and natural disasters.
$132,000
$308,000
$261,800
CENTRAL WEST
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Building Resilience
through improved
Farming Systems
OC13-00596
DAIRY YOUTH
AUSTRALIA
INCORPORATED
Young Eco
Champions sharing the farm
scale conservation
partnerships story
OC13-00410
FAR NORTH COAST
COUNTY COUNCIL
Protecting NS
Wetlands within
the Lower
Richmond
Catchment from
Hymenachne
OC13-00036
GREAT LAKES COUNCIL
Bulahdelah plain
wetland
conservation
project
OC13-00662
GWYMAC
INCORPORATED
Linking Ecological
Communities at
Inverell,
NSWOC13-00148
This project builds upon a successful
farming systems project
implemented by the Central West
Catchment Management Authority.
By exposing landholders to expert
speakers and innovative land
management approaches, farming
systems will be redesigned to
address triple bottom line outcomes
and allow landholders to gain a
greater understanding of natural
resource management issues.
This project will deliver landscape
scale conservation activities in the
Southern Rivers region through a
mentoring partnership between
Young Eco Champions and farmers.
The project will increase the
participation of young people in
managing natural resources, develop
leadership and communication skills
and work with farmers to deliver
onground landscape conservation
outcomes.
This project will progress efforts to
eradicate infestations of
Hymenachne within the priority High
Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystem
in the Richmond catchment. It will
prevent the risk of Hymenachne
spread into nationally significant
wetland areas and endangered
ecological communities in the lower
catchment.
Government and non-government
agencies have recently acquired key
floodplain wetlands on the Myall
River, which provide significant
biodiversity and environmental
value, including the protection of the
Ramsar site from pollutant inflows.
This project will undertake onground
works on this property with the long
term goal of including the land in the
National Reserve System.
This project will establish seven
hectares of additional native
vegetation in the Inverell region of
northern NSW. It will engage
landholders on private land to
increase the connectivity of remnant
$157,520
$152,350
$86,900
$132,275
$60,245
vegetation, enhance the biodiversity
and resilience of grazing properties
in the region, and increase
community capacity in landscape
scale conservation.
HAWKESBURY-NEPEAN
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Integrated
management to
restore ground
cover on degraded
soils.
OC13-00274
HUNTER COUNCILS
INCORPORATED
onground work to
protect the
ecological value of
Littoral Rainforest
OC13-00336
HUNTER-CENTRAL
RIVERS CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Enhancing soil
health &
improving
productivity on
broadacre steep
grazing lands
OC13-00399
HUNTER-CENTRAL
RIVERS CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Hunter-Central
Rivers CMA
Marine Debris
ProjectOC1300220
This project will explore methods for
restoring groundcover on fragile and
degraded soils in grazing landscapes,
applying compost, fencing, grazing
management and establishing
perennial plants to maximize
groundcover. The project will focus
on improving landholder capacity to
monitor soil biology and
groundcover, helping to maintain
long-term soil health.
The project will assist in protecting
the ecological value and character of
Littoral Rainforest in nine coastal
reserves by targeting Bitou Bush and
other noxious weeds. The project
will reduce impacts to biodiversity,
engage the community and
landholders through capacitybuilding activities, and increase
awareness through social media
applications.
This project will deliver soil health
outcomes through innovative water
harvesting, solar electric fencing
technology, pasture monitoring,
stock exclusion, feed budgeting and
new grazing management practices.
This will enable project partners to
manage groundcover, change
pasture composition to resilient
perennials, maximise rainfall
infiltration, revegetate eroded
gullies, minimise soil erosion and
evapotranspiration, enhance soil
nutrient cycling, increase soil carbon
levels, control emerging weeds and
establish wildlife corridors.
This project will focus on engaging
coastal communities in the removal
of harmful marine debris from a
range of environments. Community
organisations will work in
partnership with State and Local
Government to undertake cleanups
$242,000
$195,987
$306,900
$323,400
and monitor marine debris;
developing new partnerships that
promote behaviour change.
LACHLAN CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Changing soil
carbon and soil
health with time
and good farming
OC13-00291
LACHLAN CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Paddock Trees - a
patchy past with a
connected future
OC13-00191
LOWER MURRAYDARLING CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Improving soil
health and
reducing wind
erosion using
stubble
management
OC13-00516
This project will conduct a soil
carbon and health study of an
innovative farming system trial in the
Central NSW dry cropping zone,
which occurred between 1998 to
2011. The project will quantify
natural resource issues such as
structure decline, surface sealing,
soil water storage, erosion risk and
declining soil organic matter,
providing data for both researchers
and the farming community to
evaluate the long term impacts of
farming systems in this region.
The loss of paddock trees in the
Lachlan catchment is a factor in the
degradation of native vegetation
corridors. This project aims to
implement biodiverse plantings of
mixed native species, add value to
paddock trees re-connecting native
ecosystems, and facilitate
community education and resilience
in the landscape to safeguard against
climate change.
This project will develop and
promote a Stubble Assessment
Guide for low rainfall cropping areas
in the Mallee tri-state area of NSW,
Victoria and South Australia. It will
enable land managers to accurately
assess stubble ground cover and the
probability and severity of wind
erosion occurring given a range of
management actions.
$372,900
$284,350
$269,500
MURRAY CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Increase
Indigenous
participation in
NRM for the
proposed Werai
IPA.OC13-00543
MURRAY CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Threatened
Aquatic Species
Recovery in the
Upper Murray
OC13-00525
MURRUMBIDGEE
LANDCARE
ASSOCIATION INC
Water for wildlife
in the Riverina
rangelands
OC13-00377
NAMOI CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Threatened
Species protection
in the Namoi
Catchment
OC13-00432
This project will support traditional
owners, the Indigenous community,
and NSW and Australian
Governments to declare Werai
Forest an Indigenous Protected Area.
The project will further develop
Indigenous capacity to undertake
natural resource management in the
Werai Ramsar area, support the use
of traditional ecological knowledge,
develop capacity to manage the
forest, foster partnerships with
stakeholders, develop onground
programs such as cross tenure fox
control, and build community
support for Indigenous Protected
Areas.
Droughts, flooding, Carp invasion
and Willow infestation have caused
major declines in populations of
Southern Pygmy Perch and
Booroolong Frogs in the Upper
Murray Catchment and across NSW.
This project will enhance recovery of
the populations in Coppabella Creek
by addressing critical threats to
remnant populations and restoring
key habitat areas.
Concerns have been raised regarding
changes to the infrastructure
delivering water to the NSW Riverina
bioregion and the impact of fauna
currently accessing open channels
and tanks. This project will utilise
information from surveys and
biodiversity assessments to develop
a guide and workshops for land
managers, providing alternative
access to water for fauna such as
wetlands and ponds.
This project will address threatening
processes to the threatened and
vulnerable Booroolong and Davies
Tree Frogs through a works and
management contract with land
managers. Onground works will be
accompanied by monitoring,
ecological surveys, and an awareness
and education campaign, to build
understanding and interest in frogs
and riverine restoration in the wider
$165,000
$189,332
$100,540
$120,450
community.
OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
Enhancement of
feral horse
removal in
northern Guy
Fawkes River
National
ParkOC13-00300
OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
Enhancement of
the Boyd River
Recovery Project WoNS control
OC13-00534
OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
Reduce the impact
of feral pigs, deer
and weeds on the
GBMWHA
OC13-00226
OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
Reduce Weed
Threats to the
Myall Lakes
Ramsar Site, NSW
OC13-00321
This project will trap and remove the
feral horse populations in the Boyd
River, Kittys Creek and Combalo
Horse Management Zones. The
project will engage the local
Aboriginal community to work on
their traditional land, and provide
training in horse working skills.
This project aims to control
infestations of Lantana and
Blackberry within the Guy Fawkes
River National Park, reducing the
spread of weeds into previously
treated areas. The program will be
implemented by the Muurrbay
Bundani Aboriginal Corporation,
providing employment for Aboriginal
people on their traditional lands.
This project will augment existing
strategic programs to reduce the
impact of feral pigs, deer and Weeds
of National Significance to the
Greater Blue Mountains World
Heritage Area. This will include
improving onground management
practices, increasing community
participation in volunteer programs,
and expanding Aboriginal comanagement.
The project will reduce threats to the
ecological character of the Myall
Lakes Ramsar Site by targeting bitou
bush. The NSW Parks and Wildlife
Service will work with the Great
Lakes Aboriginal Partners Group to
develop the skills of Indigenous
people to undertake weed
management.
$286,000
$66,000
$131,010
$126,500
OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
Water level
monitoring in
Thirlmere Lakes
OC13-00297
SHOALHAVEN
LANDCARE
ASSOCIATION INC
Biodiversity
Enhancement at
Tapitallee
througth WONS
and Pest
ControlOC1300495
SNOWY RIVER
LANDCARE
INCORPORATED
Containing the
Invasion - stopping
Snowy River
Serrated Tussock
getting away
OC13-00521
SOUTH EAST
LANDCARE
INCORPORATED
Tending to the
Grass Roots Phase
2 - from healthy
roots come green
shoots.
OC13-00308
SOUTHERN RIVERS
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Threatened
Species habitat
protection in Port
Kembla
OC13-00557
This project involves the installation
of equipment to survey water levels
of the Thirlmere Lakes. This is the
second stage of a long-term project
to monitor ground and surface water
fluctuations to establish links
between ground water movements
and water levels in the lakes.
This project will develop a strategy
with eight Landcare and community
organisations to manage a 1200 ha
buffer zone between the bushland of
Illaroo, Budgong and Morton
National Parks and urban areas in
North Nowra and Cambewarra. The
project will target 700 ha of core and
outlier Lantana, support natural
regeneration, replanting, feral
animal control, fauna monitoring and
community education.
Core infestations of Serrated Tussock
threaten to invade the natural
temperate grasslands that dominate
the area covered by Snowy River
Landcare group in Dalgety. This
project will contain both core
infestations and outlier populations
of the Weed of National Significance.
This project will support Landcare
Associations in the Southern Rivers
by engaging local landholders in
small scale conservation and
sustainable farming activities, and
celebrating achievements through
Landcare Champions events held in
each district.
This project will reduce critical
threats to the Green and Golden Bell
Frog by increasing and enhancing
native habitat at Port Kembla. The
project builds upon an ongoing
program and will partner with
industry, community, local Aboriginal
groups and local and state
Government to address priority
actions from recovery and
management plans.
$33,000
$56,142
$128,220
$195,250
$108,821
SOUTHERN RIVERS
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Integrating urban
and rural riparian
NRM on the Bega /
Brogo floodplain
OC13-00615
SYDNEY
METROPOLITAN
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Towra Point and
Buffer area
Restoration Stage
2OC13-00608
TUMUT SHIRE
COUNCIL
Chilean Needle
Grass Control and
Eradication Project
in Tumut Shire FOLLOW ON
OC13-00393
UNIVERSITY OF
BALLARAT
Enhancement of
habitat for
endangered
species of Scotia
mallee
OC13-00294
This project will build resilient
landscape scale ecological
communities in the Bega and Brogo
River systems by enhancing native
vegetation and connectivity on dairy
farms.
A targeted incentive and extension
program will be developed to
demonstrate how a ground-up
approach to landscape planning can
yield landscape scale outcomes.
This project will protect threatened
and endangered species and
migratory birds of the Towra Point
Ramsar Wetland, via the control of
vertebrate pests and Weeds of
National Significance. Works will
build connectivity and resilience by
enhancing the native vegetation and
fauna habitat for identified corridors
and addressing threats to Wetland
ecology by involving Aboriginal
landholders and coastal community
groups.
Chilean Needle Grass represents a
significant threat to endangered
native habitat and productivity in the
agricultural sectors of the Shire. This
project builds on an existing project
where control works have already
reduced Needlegrass by more than
50 per cent in two years, resulting in
the recovery and regeneration of an
estimated 250 ha of previously
infested land.
The contiguous properties of Nanya
Station, Scotia Sanctuary and Tarawi
Nature Reserve, covering 130,000
ha, have the capacity to make a
major contribution to the
conservation of a wide range of
significant, threatened and
protected flora and fauna. This
project will enhance native habitat
and connectivity through predator
control, weed removal, vegetation
restoration, ground tank closure, and
planting and direct seeding of
degraded areas.
$257,400
$134,200
$82,500
$83,600
WARRINGAH COUNCIL
The Long Reef
Headland Bitou
Bush Control
Program
OC13-00026
WESTERN CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Capturing & using
Traditional
Ecological
Knowledge for
improving
groundcover
OC13-00376
WESTERN CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Infrastructure for
Rangeland
Innovation
OC13-00526
WESTERN LANDCARE
NSW INCORPORATED
Talking
Agricultural
Sustainability in
the NSW
Rangelands
OC13-00659
Bitou Bush invasion has been a
major threat to biodiversity on Long
Reef Headland since its introduction
in the 1950s. This project will assist
in the strategic and coordinated
management of Bitou Bush
throughout the headland by
implementing a variety of weed
management actions.
This project will use the Western
Catchment Management Authority's
Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge
System to engage with land
owners/managers and community
groups to promote traditional
natural resource management
practices. The project will collect and
practice Traditional Ecological
Knowledge methods that improve
groundcover, native perennial
pasture and plant species diversity.
This project will underpin the
Western Catchment Management
Authority Innovators Program in
supporting key land managers in
building producer networks. The
project will convert knowledge and
skills into capacity through the
implementation of infrastructure
and onground works.
The project involves making
documentaries of sustainable
agricultural improvements by
Landcarers in Western NSW. The
films will be part of a tool kit of
technical information linked to
websites and social media, and will
be used to engage producers
working in remote regional
communities.
$46,200
$110,550
$495,000
$104,000
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
MILINGIMBI &
OUTSTATIONS
PROGRESS RESOURCE
ASSN INC
NORTHERN TERRITORY
OF AUSTRALIA
VICTORIA RIVER
DISTRICT
CONSERVATION
ASSOCIATION INC
Crocodile Islands
Community
coastal cleanups
and marine debris
education
The Crocodile Islands are a site of
national significance for vulnerable
turtle species. This project will
address the threat of marine debris
to vertebrate marine life by
coordinating regular communityOC13-00511
based coastal clean-ups on the
populated Milingimbi and
Murrungga Islands, providing data
on ghost nets, and providing
community education on the
impacts of marine debris to support
behaviour change.
Protecting grazing The high priority weed, Bellyache
and biodiversity in bush poses a significant threat to the
the Daly River
Daly River System. This project will
system from
establish catchment scale
bellyache bush
management actions to protect
riparian biodiversity (including
OC13-00147
threatened species) and pastoral
ventures (Indigenous and nonIndigenous) including the
development of buffers,
containment lines and land manager
capacity.
Controlling VRD's
This project will control vertebrate
vertebrate pests to pests in the Victoria River District
improve
(VRD) NT Western sector by
biodiversity in the conducting aerial culling on five
NT and WA
stations. The project will enhance
the likelihood of comprehensively
OC13-00619
controlling vertebrate pests
throughout the VRD and the North
East of WA by reducing the risk of
reinfestation, while reducing soil
erosion, sedimentation of rivers and
the spread of weeds.
$78,100
$88,000
$187,000
QUEENSLAND
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
AUSTRALIAN TRUST
FOR CONSERVATION
VOLUNTEERS
Supporting
community groups
and volunteers to
improve health of
Moreton Bay
OC13-00628
CONDAMINE
CATCHMENT NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION
LIMITED
Sourcing the
crowd for WONS
weed
identification and
control
OC13-00403
DEPARTMENT OF
EMPLOYMENT
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AND
INNOVATION
Sharing best
practice for
handling SOCI
captured in
commercial fishing
gear
OC13-00360
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
HERITAGE
PROTECTION
Executive Officer
for the AFMS
Riversleigh World
Heritage Area
OC13-00164
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
AFMS Riversleigh
Fossil Database,
recording site
values of the
WHAOC13-00558
This project will reduce point source
pollution, sediment and nutrients
entering waterways that are major
contributors to the poor health of
Moreton Bay. The project will
significantly increase onground
works at ten critical sites and the
number of volunteers engaged.
This project will develop an easy-touse application utilising the built-in
functionality of mobile phones (e.g.
GPS, camera) to monitor and control
Chilean Needlegrass and
Parthenium. The mobile application
will be trialled by community groups
involved in the Condamine Alliance's
Weed Attack program.
This project will inform and
encourage fishers to adopt best
practice handling methods and
better reporting of interactions with
Species of Conservation Interest.
Educational materials will be
developed and distributed, focusing
on methods for releasing animals to
increase their chances of survival
and reduce the risk of injury to
fishers.
This project will engage an Executive
Officer to provide secretariat,
administrative and other functions to
support an interpretation project
and two advisory committees for the
Riversleigh Fossil Mammal site. The
Executive Officer will engage with
community and scientific/technical
experts to assist with the
management and communication of
World Heritage values.
The Riversleigh Fossil Mammal Site
contains a significant number of
fossil deposits and a long research
history dating back to the early
1960s. This project will map new
sites, record fossils found within the
World Heritage Area, and integrate
the data into the existing fossil
database.
$135,300
$205,700
$154,000
$104,720
$33,000
ECO BARGE SEAS INC.
FITZROY BASIN
ASSOCIATION INC
FITZROY BASIN
ASSOCIATION INC
HEALTHY WATERWAYS
LTD
PORMPURAAW
ABORIGINAL SHIRE
COUNCIL
Reducing the
incidence and
threat of marine
debris in the
Whitsunday
region, QLD
The Whitsunday region is an iconic
tourist destination under threat from
marine debris. This project will
remove existing debris, promote
thoughtful waste disposal, and
engage the community to become
proactive in reducing the threat to
OC13-00503
marine life and the aquatic
environment.
Building resilient
The project will educate participants
landscapes in the
on landscape hydrology and
Fitzroy Basin
management practices that improve
through
soil condition in the Fitzroy Basin.
sustainable grazing Outcomes of this project will include
an increase in soil infiltration of
OC13-00494
water, reducing the velocity of
runoff, reducing soil erosion and
sediments and nutrients entering
waterways, and increasing the flow
of the Fitzroy River and associated
waterways over a greater period of
time.
Landscape scale
This project will address
conservation
fundamental threats facing the
across the fitzroy
unique bum breathing turtle
basin for EPBC
(Rheodytes leukops) in the Fitzroy
listed R.leukops
Basin. Activities will include
conducting nest protection activities
OC13-00588
with volunteers, removing weeds
and cattle from nesting banks, and
gathering baseline data across the
basin.
Moreton Bay Litter This project will expand the current
Clean Up Program Healthy Waterways Clean Up
Program to include Moreton Bay and
OC13-00483
surrounding islands. The program
has a well established methodology
for data collection on litter type and
amount, and will be coupled with a
dedicated education campaign.
Ngamp inth
This project will deliver increased
Wantharr
Indigenous participation in natural
Yumpnham - This
resource management in the
is What We Are
Pormpuraaw Aboriginal lands and
Going To Do at
seas on behalf of the land's
PormpuraawOC13- Traditional Owners trustees. The
00641
project will engage the local
community, apply Traditional
Ecological Knowledge and science,
and eradicate weeds and pest
animals to protect and enhance
$270,280
$88,000
$213,787
$240,852
$286,000
native and aquatic habitats.
PRO-VISION OF REEF
INC
Mitigating
Ecological Risk in
the Queensland
Aquarium Supply
Fisheries
OC13-00178
QUEENSLAND
DAIRYFARMERS'
ORGANISATION
LIMITED
Piloting innovative
soil and nutrient
management
systems with QLD
dairy farmers
OC13-00463
SEQ CATCHMENTS
LIMITED
Connecting
Lowland
Rainforest CEEC in
Upper Stanley &
Mooloolah River
Catchments
OC13-00269
SEQ CATCHMENTS
LIMITED
Moreton Bay
Seagrass Recovery
ProgramOC1300266
This project will mitigate ecological
risk in Queensland's aquarium supply
fisheries and enhance coral reef
resilience to climate change. The
project will define industry standards
from information gathered from
ecological risk assessments, and a
collection of species identified as
performing critical functions from a
Climate Change Vulnerability
Assessment.
This project will improve soil health,
reduce soil loss and soil acidification
by accelerating the uptake of the
Australian dairy industry soil and
nutrient management guidelines.
Farmers will learn how to implement
a whole-farm management system
based on an intricate understanding
of the soil and nutrient resources at
a paddock scale.
This project will restore and
reconnect 20 ha of critically
endangered lowland subtropical
rainforest in the Upper Stanley and
Malloolah catchments. Through
revegetation, weed control and stock
management along waterways and
adjoining lands, local farmers and
landholders will improve the
conditions and extent of habitat for
eight nationally threatened species.
The Moreton Bay Seagrass Recovery
Program will restore 154 ha of
seagrass within the Moreton Bay
Ramsar listed coastal hotspot, which
has been degraded by vessel
moorings. Moorings will be replaced
by environmentally friendly designs
that prevent sediment dispersal and
seagrass destruction.
$75,000
$105,600
$284,253
$517,000
SEQ CATCHMENTS
LIMITED
Restoring
Gondwana
Habitats in Upper
Duck & Kerry
Creeks
OC13-00202
SOUTH WEST NRM LTD
Aquatic Health of
the Paroo River &
Bulloo Lakes
HCVAE
OC13-00563
SOUTH WEST NRM LTD
Biodiversity on
Bulloo Lakes
OC13-00640
SOUTH WEST NRM LTD
Post Flood
Recovery of South
West Qld's critical
aquatic habitats.
OC13-00685
SOUTH WEST NRM LTD
Pest eradication in
the ParooOC1300539
This project will assist grazing
landholders in the Upper Duck and
Kerry Creeks to increase conectivity
with buffer threats to the Gondwana
World Heritage Area, extend habitats
for threatened species, restore
riparian zones and improve native
vegetation, soil condition and water
quality. The project will reduce
habitat loss, remove lantana and
address inappropriate fire and
grazing regimes across 500 ha.
This project aims to reduce Carp
biomass in key waterholes of the
Paroo Catchment using onground
surveys and scientific protocols for
best management actions to
evaluate the diversity and
composition of the aquatic
ecosystem. The project will validate
where Carp, Tilapia and other
aquatic pests are present, while
surveying for presence of Cane
Toads within the catchments.
$227,193
This project will implement a
coordinated control program for
feral pigs and cats in the Bulloo Lakes
High Ecological Value Aquatic
Ecosystem. The program will consist
of strategic aerial shooting and
baiting to conserve ecological values
of the sites.
This project will proactively manage
the heightened threat to High
Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems
and Ramsar areas caused by the
recent devastating floods in South
West QLD. Utilising aerial and
ground baiting of 1080 and aerial
shooting of feral pests, the project
will ensure an acceptable level of
threat abatement to many
threatened and endangered species.
This project will protect the critical
environment of the Paroo River High
Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems
and Ramsar areas by eradicating and
controlling feral vertebrates. The
project works alongside multiple
industry/research partners and land
$158,400
$171,600
$198,000
$137,500
managers to create a holistic suite of
activities across the Paroo River.
SUNSHINE COAST
REGIONAL COUNCIL
Coastal Connect Sunshine Coast
Engagement &
Critical Aquatic
Habitat Project
OC13-00141
UPPER THOMSON
CATCHMENT
LANDCARE GROUP INC
Reducing the
impact of WoNs
species in the
Upper Thompson
catchment
OC13-00660
WET TROPICS
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Pest control on the
edge of the Wet
Tropics World
Heritage Area
OC13-00541
This project will impact the dunal
and aquatic habitats which are home
to endangered species including
turtles, frogs and migratory
shorebirds, improving the quality of
water, and protecting the Moreton
Bay and adjoining Great Sandy
Straight. The project will utilise
abilities and networks of 400
volunteers from 22 local
conservation groups to undertake
onground works.
Pastoralists in the Upper Thompson
catchment will work together to
reduce the impact of Parkinsonia,
Rubbervine and Prickly Acacia on the
local environment, lessening the risk
of infestation spread downstream
due to floodwaters. The project will
include training workshops,
awareness raising and best practice
treatment to tackle core infestations.
Cyclone Yasi triggered concern about
the increased risk of Tramp Ants in
the Wet Tropics World Heritage
Area. This project will protect World
Heritage values including iconic
species such as the Southern
Cassowary, by increasing surveillance
and early detection of Electric and
Yellow Crazy Ants.
$464,023
$222,750
$294,800
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
ADELAIDE & MT LOFTY
RANGES NRM BOARD
Eradicating newly
discovered
outbreaks of
Western Cape
Bridal Creeper
OC13-00527
ADELAIDE & MT LOFTY
RANGES NRM BOARD
Current impacts
and threat
abatement of
marine debris
within Gulf St.
Vincent
OC13-00496
AGRICULTURE
KANGAROO ISLAND
INCORPORATED
Reducing soil
acidity in irrigated
horticulture on
Kangaroo Island
OC13-00106
ALINYTJARA
WILURARA NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Innovative
management of
invasive species in
the Maralinga
Tjarutja Lands, SA
OC13-00096
Western Cape Bridal Creeper is a
more robust form of Bridal Creeper
that is unaffected by existing
biological control agents, posing a
significant threat to the region. This
project, based on a successful
eradication program, will eradicate
new infestations of the weed,
identified through ongoing
surveillance work.
This project will develop and engage
community volunteer networks and
coastal groups in managing marine
debris within the Gulf St. Vincent.
The project will analyse real-time
trends in debris abundance,
accumulation and sources, to enable
targeted outreach, awareness and
mitigation strategies.
This project will work with
landholders in the potato industry on
Kangaroo Island to mitigate soil
acidity through education,
awareness and adoption of improved
land management practices.
Activities will include the
establishment of a demonstration
site to reduce soil acidity through
specific fertiliser and irrigation
scheduling, linkages with other
industry groups to disperse project
findings, development of decision
support tools, and field days and
workshops.
The Alinytjara Wilurara Natural
Resource Management Board will
partner with Indigenous landowners
to assist in the management of
invasive species across the remote
Maralinga Tjarutja Lands. By using
animal track data and an invasive
species management tool, the
project will manage cats and foxes
around threatened species sites.
$55,000
$120,659
$76,995
$153,111
ALINYTJARA
WILURARA NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Landcare in the
APY Pastoral Area
OC13-00067
ALINYTJARA
WILURARA NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Yalata Community
and Volunteers
Caring for the
Unique Far West
Coast of SA
OC13-00172
AUSTRALIAN TRUST
FOR CONSERVATION
VOLUNTEERS
Increasing Long
Term Engagement
of SA Rural Coastal
Community
Environment
Groups
OC13-00633
CENTRAL LOCAL
GOVERNMENT REGION
OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
INC
Councils and
Community Caring
for the Coast,
South Australia
OC13-00023
This project will support Aboriginal
Graziers in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara
Yankunytjatjara Lands to develop a
sustainable grazing industry in
balance with cultural and natural
land use. The project will develop
the capacity of Traditional Owners to
undertake soil conservation, use GPS
mapping and imagery, increase
ground cover, minimise erosion,
relocate water points, and undertake
weed, pest and fire management.
The Far West coast of South
Australia is a high value corridor
incorporating social, cultural and
wilderness values, serving as a site
for calving Southern Right Whales
and other threatened species
including Australian Sea Lions and
White-Bellied Sea Eagles. This
project will engage the coastal
Aboriginal community and
volunteers in: monitoring the
Southern Right Whales, shorebirds
and coastal threats; surveying
Mulloway stocks; educating the
public; and removing marine debris.
This project will provide materials
and funds for onground works and
actions in the Kangaroo Island, Eyre
Peninsula and Northern Yorke
regions. Six workshops will be
conducted to increase knowledge
and networking opportunities,
allowing coastal groups to build on
existing strategies for increasing
volunteer participation with their
onground conservation works.
This project will involve a range of
community engagement and
education activities, including coastal
rehabilitation, conservation and
protection works in the Gulf St
Vincent and eastern Spencer Gulf
region. The project involves seven
coastal councils and around 40
community groups who will work
with around 1200 members of the
community to deliver onground
activities.
$242,000
$55,000
$521,015
$434,500
COORONG DISTRICT
COUNCIL
Enhancing priority
remnant native
vegetation in the
Upper South
EastOC13-00050
DEPARTMENT FOR
ENVIRONMENT AND
NATURAL RESOURCES
onground Work to
Improve Ecological
Character of the
Riverland Ramsar
Site, SA
OC13-00163
DEPARTMENT OF
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
AND REGIONS
Increasing farmer
knowledge of soils
in SA
OC13-00175
ECOLOGICAL
HORIZONS PTY LTD
Threat abatement
for nationally
threatened
Middleback mallee
species
OC13-00339
This project will increase native
habitat and reduce the impact of
vertebrate pests and Weeds of
National Significance on endangered
species within the Coorong and
Tatiara Districts of South Australia.
This will be achieved through fencing
to protect listed communities and
endangered species, controlling
weeds, foxes and rabbits, providing
technical support for onground
works, and enhancing partnerships
between stakeholders.
This project will protect and restore
the values and ecology of the
Riverland Ramsar site by targeting
pest animal control, weed control
and habitat restoration. onground
works at a landscape scale will
involve government, business,
industry, Indigenous and nonIndigenous communities.
There is considerable interest from
farmers in South Australia to learn
about practices for controling soil
erosion, combating deficiencies or
toxicities, and addressing soil acidity
and salinity. This project will deliver
a series of information workshops in
each South Australian agricultural
region, using soil pits and in-paddock
testing to demonstrate the soil
characteristics.
Feral foxes, cats and goats present a
serious threat to nationally
threatened Malleefowl, Sandhill
Dunnart, Chalky Wattle and Yellow
Swainsona Pea, in the Middleback
Alliance region of Eyre Peninsula.
This project will refine optimal
techniques for controlling pests over
500,000 ha of private, public and
Natural Reserve System land,
through the use of radiotracking and
automated poisoning devices.
$195,800
$266,200
$319,550
$85,800
EYRE PENINSULA
NATURAL RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Implementing the
River Management
Plan for the Tod
Catchment OC1300114
GOOLWA TO
WELLINGTON LOCAL
ACTION PLANNING
ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED
Hartley Hotspots
Biodiversity
Project
GREENING AUSTRALIA
(SA) LTD
Habitat protection
for the Pygmy Blue
Tongue Lizard
OC13-00657
OC13-00400
GURRA DOWNS DATE
COMPANY PTY LTD
Demonstrating
date palms in
living landscapes
OC13-00133
This project will implement
recommendations outlined in the
Tod River Management Plan, to
protect and enhance 380 ha of high
conservation value native habitat in
the river catchment. The project will
remove grazing pressure, enhance
remnant vegetation, re-establish
native vegetation, and control
invasive weeds, establishing
corridors between areas of high
ecological value, and key linkages
between the headwaters and coastal
estuarine system.
This project will focus on the
protection and ongoing management
of the EPBC Act listed flora, fauna
and vegetation species found in the
Hartley area. Works will include the
removal of weeds and pest animals,
and will focus on achieving
landscape connectivity.
Pygmy Blue Tongue Lizards are
endemic to a small private
grasslands-region in the mid-north of
South Australia. This project will
work with landholders to improve
the quality and extent of habitat for
the species by providing technical
advice, developing property
management plans, and providing
incentives to undertake best-practice
management.
The project will expand a Date Palm
demonstration site in the Riverland
South Australia where information is
shared with farmers, researchers,
educators and students. This will
provide opportunity for inland
farming communities to adapt to a
new farming system, build resilience
against climate change and reduced
water availability, combat
desertification and erosion, and
increase soil health.
$290,085
$83,600
$178,200
$200,200
KANGAROO ISLAND
NATURAL RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Addressing key
threats to
environmental
values in the
Pelican Lagoon
Basin, KIOC1300620
LENSWOOD COLD
STORES CO-OPERATIVE
SOCIETY LIMITED
Sustainable
Orchard
Management
Practices in the
Adelaide Hills
Watershed
OC13-00351
LUCERNE AUSTRALIA
INCORPORATED
Communicating
which fertilisers
give greatest
benefit in
sustainable
management
OC13-00606
NORTHERN AND
YORKE NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Eradication of
Boneseed and
Gorse from the
N&Y NRM region
in SA
OC13-00490
A total of 1580 ha of native
vegetation in the Pelican Lagoon
Basin will be protected from land
degradation, introduced weeds and
vertebrate pests. The project
involves adopting improved
agricultural land management,
benchmarking the health of sea grass
and marine habitats, and engaging
the local community to develop their
skills to protect and restore
environmental assets.
This project will promote sustainable
orchard management practices
through the adoption of an online
Spatial Data Recording System,
enabling growers and the industry to
share data with supply chain
partners to improve production,
monitor the environment, and
support community and government
expectations. The system will collect
regional soil health and water data
and report on performance,
providing a benchmark for growers,
industry and landholders in the
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
natural resource management
region.
This project will enable the lucerne
seed industry to collect data to
identify which fertilisers and rates
deliver greatest yields, improve soil
health and carbon levels, and reduce
potential for soil acidity. The
information will be used to develop
industry first guidelines together
with other pasture seed
stakeholders.
This project will eradicate priority
national outlier infestations of
Boneseed and Gorse, both Weeds of
National Significance. The
infestations in the Northern and
Yorke region are outlier to core
infestations in adjacent regions and a
priority under the national
strategies.
$238,810
$470,250
$25,300
$66,000
NORTHERN AND
YORKE NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Improving
ecosystem
integrity &
resilience via
enhanced
community
participationOC1300374
NORTHERN AND
YORKE NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Vegetation
protection on the
Wakefield River
OC13-00391
PRODUCTIVE
NUTRITION PTY LTD
The South
Australian Murray
Darling Basin Soil
Reclamation
Project
OC13-00398
RIVERLAND WEST
LOCAL ACTION
PLANNING
ASSOCIATION INC
Improving the
uptake of low
disturbance
sowing techniques
in vulnerable
regions
OC13-00524
The Southern Flinders Ranges and
Southern Yorke Peninsula have been
identified as priority biodiversity
landscapes. This project will harness
existing community interest,
including the active engagement of
the Nukunu and Narungga Aboriginal
communities, to restore and
enhance over 373,740 ha of land in
these areas.
This project will protect and enhance
riparian refugia along the Wakefield
River by supporting sustainable
farming practices and landscapescale conservation of native
vegetation. Activities will include
weed control, fencing and
waterpoint relocation, revegetation,
development of management
agreements with landholders, and
engagement strategies to enhance
landholder skills and knowledge.
The loss of soil and decline in
perennial vegetation through
continuous grazing has resulted in
decreased production in the South
Australian Murray Darling Basin. This
project will demonstrate the benefits
of mechanical treatments to
establish and maintain native
vegetation, broadcast seeding of
native vegetation and grazing
saltbush to encourage sustainable
grazing practices.
This project will demonstrate the soil
conservation benefits and
operational merits of the ultra low
disturbance disc seeding system in
direct comparison to existing
conventional sowing systems. The
project will establish a trial in a
region of moderate and severe wind
erosion risk in the South Australia
Mallee, utilising new equipment to
dispel apprehensions farmers have
about adopting zero-till disc seeding.
$545,050
$154,000
$98,552
$71,661
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
Reducing the
impact of
vertebrate pests
on a 1000 ha
property at
MonartoOC1300270
RURAL DIRECTIONS
TRUST
SA Murray Darling
Basin Rangelands Responsive
Grazing
Management
Project
OC13-00315
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
ARID LANDS NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
onground control
of Athel Pine in
Lake Frome
Regional Reserve.
OC13-00455
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
MURRAY-DARLING
BASIN NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Collaborative
action to remove
Feral Pigs from the
Ramsar riverine
environment
OC13-00436
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
MURRAY-DARLING
BASIN NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Co-ordinated goat
control to protect
biodiversity in the
Billiatt WPA
complex
OC13-00434
This project will reduce the impact of
rabbits, cats and foxes on 1000 ha of
property in Monarto. The outcomes
of this work will be increased
regeneration of habitat, revegetation
and protection of EPBC Act 1999
listed plant communities and
species, and building skills and
knowledge within the local
community.
This project will connect principles of
sound grazing management with
overall resource management,
through a field day, grazing
management workshops and onproperty implementation.
Monitoring will be undertaken to
determine the change in knowledge,
attitudes, skills and aspirations of
participating businesses.
The water courses and habitats of
Lake Frome Regional Reserve in the
SA Arid Lands are threatened by
Athel Pine, a Weed of National
Significance, impacting on native
vegetation and fauna. This project
will protect the area by preventing
new incursions of Athel Pine, provide
connectivity to existing control areas
and prevent future reinfestation into
treated areas.
This project will maintain the
integrity of high biodiversity value
areas in Riverland Ramsar and
adjoining sites through the removal
of feral pigs. Collaborative works will
ensure state authorities are able to
learn and share information from
similar projects, and enable access to
expertise-sharing for the removal of
these feral predators.
This project will reduce the damage
inflicted by goats in the Billiatt
Wilderness Protection Area and
surrounding district by partnering
with local land managers, Landcare
groups, and volunteers in
participating in an integrated control
program. This will promote
regeneration of vegetation, relied
upon as a source of protection and
$186,912
$64,559
$49,500
$132,420
$84,654
food by nationally venerable species
including the Mallee Fowl.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
MURRAY-DARLING
BASIN NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT BOARD
Restoring critical
habitat of
threatened species
of the Eastern Mt.
Lofty RangesOC1300260
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
NO-TILL FARMERS
ASSOCIATION INC
Aqua-Till:
Demonstrating an
ultra-low-soildisturbance
seeding-system.
OC13-00504
SOUTHERN SHARK
INDUSTRY ALLIANCE
INC.
Code of Practice &
training for shark
longline fishermen
off southern
Australia
OC13-00552
SPENCER GULF & WEST
COAST PRAWN
FISHERMANS
ASSOCIATION INC
SA prawn fisheries
improving
environmental
practices.
OC13-00090
The project will provide the technical
advice and resources to land
managers, youth and Indigenous
Australians of the Eastern Mount
Lofty Ranges, to improve and restore
over 2000 ha of critical habitat for 12
EPBC Act 1999 listed flora and fauna
species. Habitat sites will be
improved through restoration works,
threat abatement measures and the
establishment of two 'resilience
sites' to ensure adaptability to
climate change.
This project will demonstrate a soil
condition enhancing tool which
allows for increased groundcover
retention and minimises tillage in
cropping systems. Water, liquid
fertilisers or fungicides are used to
slice through groundcover and
penetrate soils while also delivering
crop-establishment, productivity and
greenhouse gas benefits.
The Australian Fisheries
Management Authority has closed
fishing grounds off Southern
Australia to reduce Sea Lion and
Dolphin entanglement and drowning
in demersal shark gillnets. This
project will implement training
packages to assist a change to
automatic longlines and develop an
industry Code of Conduct to
minimise bycatch.
South Australian prawn fishers are
committed to improving their
management practices to maintain
their stock's sustainability and
associated ecosystem services. This
project will trial bycatch reduction
devices in the Gulf of Saint Vincent
prawn fishery to reduce the impact
on threatened, endangered and
$343,376
$37,950
$120,886
$71,500
protected species.
UPPER NORTH
FARMING SYSTEMS
Implementing best
practice
management
grazing systems
for low rainfall
zoneOC13-00091
YP ALKALINE SOILS
GROUP
INCORPORATED
Sustaining No-Till
Farming Through
Integrated Brome
Grass
Management.
OC13-00304
This project aims to increase surface
cover and perenniality on a large
scale in the cereal and livestock
zone, whilst improving pasture and
livestock productivity. The project
will focus on unarable hill country
unsuitable for cropping, and arable
land which has been cropped but has
become degraded or is no longer
viable.
Brome Grass is a weed of high
concern on the Yorke Peninsula
where the first known occurrence of
herbicide resistance has emerged.
This project will develop an
integrated approach for the long
term management of the weed,
which will assist in sustaining the
longevity of no till farming systems.
$172,997
$38,500
TASMANIA
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
CRADLE COAST
AUTHORITY
This project will work with land
managers and volunteers to pilot a
cooperative approach for managing
the grasslands of the Surrey Hills
area, which provide important
habitat for threatened species and
endangered ecological communities
(Hoary Sunray and Crowded-Leek
Orchid, and Alpine Sphagnum Bogs
and associated Fens). Fire, grazing
and weed control regimes will
maintain and improve habitat for
these threatened species.
Grassland
management in
North West
Tasmania
OC13-00009
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
$42,350
DAIRYTAS BOARD
INCORPORATED
Managing
nutrients to
improve dairy
farm sustainability
in Northern
Tasmania
OC13-00342
NORTHERN
TASMANIAN NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
ASSOCIATION INC.
Gambusia control
to reduce a key
threat to the
Tamar Estuary,
Northern
Tasmania
OC13-00442
SOUTHERN REGIONAL
NATURAL RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
ASSOCIATION
onground works
and action to
enhance ecological
values of Apsley
Marshes,
TASOC13-00213
TASMAN LANDCARE
GROUP INC
Tasman
Catchment Coastal
Community
OC13-00244
THE TRUSTEE FOR THE
ROYAL TASMANIAN
BOTANICAL GARDENS
Protection of
forest species in
Tasmania
OC13-00610
This project will promote sustainable
soil management practices on ten
Tasmanian dairy farms in the
Meander Valley and neighbouring
regions. At least 80 farmers will
improve their knowledge and skills
on techniques for improved soil
acidity and nutrient management,
pastures, laneways and feed out
areas for use in adverse weather
conditions.
This project will build on efforts to
control and eradicate the pest fish
Gambusia holbrooki which threatens
Tasmanian biodiversity. This project
will utilise volunteers and engage the
community to minimise the impact
of the pest, and prevent its
translocation beyond the Tamar
Estuary.
This project will protect and improve
the health of the Apsley River,
thereby improving the health of the
Apsley Marshes Ramsar site. Project
activities will include onground weed
control, stock access control, surveys
to fill information gaps and
development of a long term plan for
ongoing management.
This project will engage the Tasman
Catchment community through
events and workshops, providing the
opportunity to participate in coastal
activities. The activities will include
feral Pacific Oyster removal,
responsible cat ownership, weed
identification workshops, learning
about Aboriginal heritage and
assisting to mitigate coastal erosion.
This project will collect seed and
cutting material from at-risk species
in the Tasmanian Wilderness World
Heritage Area to ensure that viable,
genetically diverse collections of
each species are stored and available
for research and conservation
activities.
VICTORIA
$108,350
$66,000
$304,700
$34,018
$55,000
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
ETHNIC COUNCIL OF
SHEPPARTON &
DISTRICT INC
Shepparton East is an horticultural
area of around 8000 ha, where
approximately 200 fruit growers are
from culturally and linguistically
diverse backgrounds. Forty farmers
will be selected for workshops, field
days, soil sampling and testing for
soil nutrients, acidity and salinity to
increase their knowledge and skills.
This project will help protect the
ecological values of the Lower
Glenelg and Discovery Bay High
Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems
site by engaging stakeholders to
address key threats and implement
onground management actions
across 710 ha of public and private
land. Activities will focus on
containment and management of
weeds and pest animals, specifically
Pine Wildings, Polygala and feral
pigs.
The project will engage the
Limeburners Bay community to
rehabilitate the remnant dry
saltmarsh under threat of invasive
weeds. Volunteering and
conservation training will be
promoted through information days
at local community centres and the
Wathaurong Cooperative, and
through community and
conservation newsletters and
websites.
The project will enhance ten
kilometres of riparian vegetation
along key sections of Fiery Creek in
South West Victoria. Tubestock
planting, direct seeding, fencing to
control grazing, and weed control
will increase the quality of riparian
habitat and augment natural
regeneration.
Increasing uptake
of soil tests by
CALD orchardists
of Shepparton East
OC13-00664
GLENELG - HOPKINS
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Pest and weed
management in
the Lower Glenelg
OC13-00530
GREENING AUSTRALIA
(VIC) LTD
Limeburners Link
Community
Engagement and
Training
OC13-00519
H11 - H12
COMMUNITY ACTION
GROUP
Upper Hopkins
Riparian Habitat
Corridors
OC13-00551
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
$126,665
$190,493
$86,882
$150,700
MERRI CREEK
MANAGEMENT
COMMITTEE INC
Remnant
vegetation
restoration on
Merri CreekOC1300414
NORTH CENTRAL
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Farming for
Australian
Conditions
OC13-00196
THE LISMORE LAND
PROTECTION GROUP
Increasing
landholder
knowledge of soil
constraints to
improve
sustainability
OC13-00523
WEST GIPPSLAND
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Wetland Habitat
Restoration for the
Gippsland Lakes
OC13-00579
This project will restore native
habitat in three remnant vegetation
sites along the urban stretch of Merri
Creek, targeting weed infestations.
The project will strengthen buffers
and improve higher quality Natural
Temperate Grasslands of the
Victorian Volcanic Plain along the
habitat corridor of the creek,
involving local and Indigenous
communities.
This project will demonstrate
innovative and adoptable farming
practices whilst increasing farm
profitability, environmental
outcomes and farmer knowledge
and skills. It will support 80 farmers
and landholders covering 12,200 ha
to improve soil health and resilience,
build community confidence and
reverse the changes of negative land
use that have led to soil erosion and
an increase in weeds and pest
animals.
This project will characterise soil
types on representative farms in
order to increase the adoption of
improved soil management
techniques, improve fertiliser
management practices, reduce
nutrient loss into waterways and
increase biomass production.
Workshops will share information
and experiences between
landholders to increase their
understanding of soils.
This project will be undertaken on
wetlands of the Avon River, adjacent
to the Gippsland Lakes Ramsar site.
It will protect wetland habitat and
improve the connectivity and quality
of run off from farmland, enabling
collaborative activities to be
delivered within the wetland
environment.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
$87,938
$215,600
$48,345
$146,520
Funding recipients Project title
Project description
CENTRAL DESERT
NATIVE TITLE SERVICES
LIMITED
The project will increase Indigenous
participation in and integrate
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
into the recovery of biodiversity
values for pastoral leases near
Wiluna in the Murchison bio-region.
The project will improve biodiversity
conservation outcomes at a
landscape scale, and establish a
model for biodiversity conservation
and Indigenous partnerships.
This project will assess the status of
marine biodiversity values of the
Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area
through the development of
partnerships with key stakeholders.
Activities to inform the Marine
Monitoring Program include
assessment of reef fish, sharks, rays,
and turtles, measuring fishing effort,
and assessment of the marine park
management zones for large iconic
megafauna.
This project will establish a rotational
grazing system on Pingandy Station
in the north central Gascoyne. The
project will use an innovative
practice to modify livestock
behaviour, aimed at improving soil
health and native grasslands through
grazing management.
This project will reduce rabbit
populations and promote
regeneration and protection of
threatened flora and habitat in the
Central Wheatbelt of Western
Australia. Management actions will
include rabbit and weed control, fire
disturbance trials and translocation
of threatened flora seedlings.
Recovery of
biodiversity on
pastoral leases on
Martu land
through
partnerships.
OC13-00069
COMMONWEALTH
SCIENTIFIC AND
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
ORGANISATION
Identifying threats
to marine
biodiversity of the
Ningaloo World
Heritage Area
OC13-00330
D.J HASTIE & J.G
HASTIE
Feed supplement
controlled
rotational grazing
system for desert
rangelands, WA
OC13-00052
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
CONSERVATION
Control rabbits
and regenerate
threatened flora in
the Central
Wheatbelt of WA
OC13-00439
Maximum
funding
level
(GST
inclusive)
$313,500
$551,032
$68,200
$237,600
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
CONSERVATION
Development of
Whale Shark
Management Plan
- Ningaloo Coast
World Heritage
AreaOC13-00054
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
CONSERVATION
Fauna
reconstruction of
Dirk Hartog Island
- Shark Bay World
Heritage
OC13-00355
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
CONSERVATION
Reducing the risk
of damage by
increasing
visitation at
Purnululu WHA
OC13-00510
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
CONSERVATION
Saving EPBC listed
species by
controlling
introduced
predators
OC13-00100
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AND
CONSERVATION
Towards recovery:
Reversing the
trend of
threatened flora
habitat
senescence
OC13-00566
Aggregations of protected Whale
Sharks along the Ningaloo Coast
World Heritage Area attract
thousands of visitors each year. This
project will develop a management
plan to combat increasing pressures
on the species, and provide a
blueprint for future research and
monitoring requirements.
Dirk Hartog Island in the Shark Bay
World Heritage Area formerly
supported at least 13 species of nonvolant mammals, of which only three
remain due to feral cats, mice, goats
and pastoral use. This project will
continue an innovative eradication
program to eliminate sheep and
goats, and reintroduce ten species of
native mammals to the island.
The soils and vegetation of the
Purnululu World Heritage Area are
extremely fragile, with evidence that
vegetation loss and
compaction/erosion is being caused
by the steadily increasing number of
people visiting sites. This project will
use site-hardening of tracks and
recreation trails to reduce the risk of
erosion and loss of vegetation.
This project will continue aerial
baiting trials to reduce predation by
feral cats and foxes in key
conservation reserves on the south
coast of WA. This will reduce critical
threats to over 300,000 ha of key
habitat for EPBC listed fauna species,
including the critically endangered
Gilbert's Potoroo and the
endangered Western Ground Parrot.
This project is designed to reverse
the damaging trend of threatened
flora habitat senescence in the
Western Australia Wheatbelt.
Onground work to quantify the
senescence will be undertaken and
tools will be developed to maximise
the usefulness of the data collected.
$59,521
$296,450
$330,000
$101,200
$269,500
NORTHERN
AGRICULTURE
CATCHMENTS
COUNCIL
INCORPORATED
Implementation of
Yamatji Indigenous
Site Audit
Management
PlansOC13-00081
NORTHERN
AGRICULTURE
CATCHMENTS
COUNCIL
INCORPORATED
Increasing
adoption of
reduced cropping
traffic in the
broadacre industry
in WA.
OC13-00083
NORTHERN
AGRICULTURE
CATCHMENTS
COUNCIL
INCORPORATED
Native Habitat and
Landscape
Conservation
Phase II
OC13-00177
NORTHERN
AGRICULTURE
CATCHMENTS
COUNCIL
INCORPORATED
Ocean to Estuary
Experience:
community skills
for preserving
coastal
ecosystems
OC13-00059
This project will deliver
recommendations from Aboriginal
site management plans and engage
in the rehabilitation and protection
of coastal zones in the Northern
Agricultural region. The project will
enhance community awareness of
Indigenous Traditional Ecological
Knowledge for natural resource
management.
This project will work with industry
to increase the knowledge and skills
of 120 farmers in Controlled Traffic
Farming practices to decrease
subsoil compaction, increase soil
health and reduce the risk of erosion
in the Northern Agricultural and
South Coast regions of WA. Activities
include updating technical manuals,
workshops, field days, on-farm
demonstrations, extension materials,
and developing case studies and
promotional videos.
This project will protect and restore
high-value remnant vegetation
containing threatened flora and
fauna in the Northern Agricultural
region of South West WA. The
project offers incentives for private
land managers to protect and
enhance valuable habitat through
fencing and invasive species
management.
The Northern Agricultural Region is
experiencing increased human
pressures on coastal ecosystems,
resulting in the removal of sea wrack
from beaches for aesthetic purposes,
and the degradation of estuaries
from increased recreational use and
stormwater pollutants. This project
will build community skills,
knowledge and awareness through
workshops, to relieve pressures and
maintain the social, ecological,
economic and cultural services that
sea wrack and estuaries provide.
$166,249
$254,221
$544,500
$138,838
ORD IRRIGATION COOPERATIVE LTD
Weed control in
the Ord River
Irrigation
AreaOC13-00381
RAVENSTHORPE
AGRICULTURAL
INITIATIVE NETWORK
New technologies
to improve soil
health
OC13-00485
SOUTHERN BROOK
CATCHMENT LAND
CARE GROUP INC.
Delivering Invasive
Species
Management in
the Wheatbelt's
Two Rivers project
OC13-00382
THE AUSTRALIAN
INSTITUTE OF MARINE
SCIENCE
Engaging the
community to
understand the
World Heritage
values of Ningaloo
OC13-00383
This project will conserve and
protect the biodiversity of the Ord
River Ramsar wetland site through
the control of Weeds of National
Significance within the Ord River
Irrigation Area. The project will
control an infestation of Bellyache
Bush using a range of control
methods including physical removal,
aerial and manual spraying,
preventing further spread of the
weed.
This project will deliver coordinated
demonstration and extension
activities to landholders in the
eastern south coast of Western
Australia. It will provide information
on new technologies and practices to
improve soil health and maximise
ground cover, demonstrate the
establishment and management of
long season annual legume pastures
in a cropping rotation, and examine
the use of surfactants on non
wetting soils and the role of stubble
retention in maintaining soil health
and preventing wind erosion.
This project includes a program of
works to achieve priority biodiversity
assets, including the protection of
regionally significant waterways,
remnant vegetation, priority flora
and iconic fauna. This project will
provide the capacity to formalise the
identification and documentation of
invasive species, in addition to fasttracking high priority onground
activities.
The Ningaloo Atlas is a partnership
between government, industry, and
the community that offers a web
portal which provides a free and
open exchange of information with a
focus on impending coastal and
marine planning reviews. The online
atlas will increase the community's
understanding, and support marine
conservation and management of
the Ningaloo Coast.
$38,500
$40,150
$85,800
$142,570
WHEATBELT NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
INCORPORATED
Farming
Landscapes for the
Future - Decision
Support for
Farmers in
AgroforestryOC1300428
WHEATBELT NATURAL
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
INCORPORATED
Monitoring Soil
Science On-Farm
OC13-00397
This project will support the training
of natural resource management
officers and farmers across the Avon
River Basin in the use of the 'Farming
Landscapes for the Future Tool'. The
tool will predict the benefits and
costs of planting trees in the Avon
catchment under current and future
climate scenarios.
This project will develop soil science
monitoring techniques accessible to
farmers, and investigate the effect of
changed farming practices on soil
biology across the Avon River Basin.
The project includes producing
training materials, workshops for
farmers and natural resource
management officers, and evaluation
of Wheatbelt National Resource
Management-funded farm projects
on soil biology.
$215,600
$236,797