Conservation Grants

Small Grants Program

Looking for support for your project? The Small Grants Program of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife might be able to help.

The Foundation welcomes funding proposals for nature conservation projects across Australia.

Who can apply?

Small grants of up to $5,000 are available for nature conservation projects in three categories. Not all categories may be awarded in each funding round.

2008 Grant Recipients

Category A. Private Land Conservation

• Richard and Marion Armstrong of ‘The Old Cottage’ in Floraville
  To control weeds in the rainforest after storm damage in an area inhabited by the threatened powerful owl.
  
  
• John and Jane Bragg of ‘Wattle Park’ in Invergowrie
  To remove weeds, stabilise creek banks and encourage native animals.
  
  
• Colin and Anne Browne of ‘The Backwater’ in Bermagui
  To control weeds and plant creek banks to enhance koala habitat.
  
  
• Warwick Deacock of ‘Chakola’ in the Kangaroo Valley
  To remove woody weeds using Conservation Volunteers Australia in an area inhabited by the endangered brush-tailed rock-wallaby. The work will be carried out by hand to reduce the use of herbicide and the risk of harming native species.
  
  
• Bev and John Debrincat of ‘For Rest’ in Crescent Heads
  To remove bitou bush and revegetate coastal sand dunes between Limeburners Creek Nature Reserve and Hat Head National Park. Their property is an important native habitat link for these areas.”
  
  
• Lawrence Ernst of ‘Calmhaven’ in Woodburn
  To control lantana and invasive grasses in freshwater wetland, swamp oak and swamp sclerophyll forest.
  
  
• Ralph and Barbara Harris of ‘Brushwood’ in Tumbi Umbi
  To maintain previous bush regeneration in gully rainforest and open forest.
  
  
• Richard Hastings of ‘Euvale’ in Canyonleigh
  To plant a sub-storey of Acacia decurrens in 10 hectares of regrowth eucalypts and investigate the effect of the wattles in discouraging noisy miners and attracting small birds.
  
  
• Richard Hughes of Mullumbimby
  To control lantana and vines in the rainforest and protect threatened flora and fauna species.
  
  
• Geoff and Christine Ibbett of Farmborough Heights
  To control lantana, crofton weed and cape ivy to protect native flora.
  
  
• Uralla Shire Council’s Racecourse Lagoon
  To undertake an indigenous survey and develop community education packs highlighting indigenous usage and the conservation significance of Racecourse Lagoon.
  
  
• Barrie Mac Millan of ‘Cooba’ in Gol Gol
  To revegetate with 12 kilometres of direct seeding of local native plant species.
  
  
• John and Lois Prior of ‘Cedar Ridge’ in Condong
  To remove weeds in high conservation value rainforest.
  
  
• Glen and Manola Schembri of Farmborough Heights
  To control lantana, crofton weed and cape ivy to protect native flora.
  
  
• Mary White of ‘Falls Forest Retreat’ in the Johns River
  To produce tree labels for an interpretive walking track.
  
  
• Maxine Williams of Khsharthra in Crowther
  To replace barbed wire fences, trap feral cats and plant an understorey to protect endangered squirrel gliders and superb parrots.
  
  
• Esme Wood of Galston (pictured above)
  To maintain previous bush regeneration in a remnant of turpentine-ironbark forest, which is an endangered ecological community.

The Private Land Conservation Grants are a co-funding initiative of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife, the Paddy Pallin Foundation, the Wildlife Land Trust and the Conservation Partners program of the NSW Departmern of Environment and Conservation.

Category B. Scientific Research

Lisa Kingsley, University of Queensland - survey of the endangered Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby

Category C. Community Groups

Earthcare St Kilda, Melbourne Victoria - Microchipping of Little Penguins
Penguin Foundation, Melbourne Victoria - Satellite Tracking Little Penguins
Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia ORRCA - Capacity Building
Penguin Wardens, Manly NSW - Protection of the breeding colony of Little Penguins in Manly

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