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Approved 20 Million Trees Grants Round Three Projects to begin in the 2017/2018 financial year

App ID Project Title Project Description Applicant Name Grants Total (GST Incl.)

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20MTR3-16 Biodiversity Urban Corridors Project

Albany Biodiversity Urban Corridor Project is a key objective of the City of Albany's Urban Tree Strategy, which aims to identify, re-create, conserve and enhance urban and peri urban environments for greater flora and fauna connectivity. Western Ringtail Possums require dense jarrah, marri, Sheoak, and peppermint tree corridors, which allow them to travel between pockets of urban remnant vegetation. Lake Seppings is a key corridor that supports possums to travel between Mt Clarence and Emu Point habitats. With the support of South Coast NRM and local Albany Bushcare groups, this project will assist in revegetation works as well as supporting extensive community consultation to ensure the successful implementation and long term viability. This will achieve sustainable revegetation and complement ongoing conservation efforts for Lake Seppings.

City of Albany $96,500 50,000 WA

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20MTR3-38Community conservation at Wirrina

Conservation Volunteers Australia and the District Council of Yankalilla will create critical food and nesting stepping stone habitat at Wirrina on the Fleurieu Peninsula (FP) for the endangered Black Glossy Cockatoo (BGC). Due to clearing of Woodland in the 1900’s on the FP habitat was lost to the BGC. As a result the birds are restricted to Kangaroo Island (KI). This community focussed project will enhance fragmented remnant Drooping Sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata) Low Woodland and associated canopy and understory species such as S.A. Blue Gum (E. leucoxylon) and Pink Gum (E. fasciculosa) via tubestock planting. The habitat enhanced by this project will provide foraging and nesting sites 17km north from currently established vegetation well within forging range at the point of FP.

Conservation Volunteers Australia

$110,000 25,000 SA

20MTR3-43 Belvidere Revegetation Project

This Project will create, improve, and protect current areas of significant Heritage listed vegetation and other regional Conservation Parks and Reserves, through the revegetation of EPBC listed Peppermint Box Grassy Woodland. It will support habitat of three nationally threatened flora species and over seven state rated bird species through activities including direct seeding, tubestock planting, and pest and weed control.

Trees for Life Inc. $68,002 26,000 SA

20MTR3-58Steinfield Mallee Woodland Restoration

This Project will revegetate 40 hectares of Mallee Woodland habitat that supports the nationally threatened Regent Parrot, Red-Lored Whistler and Mallee Fowl. The project will create an important stepping stone habitat, facilitating movement and survival needs and creating a refuge for these threatened species and other regional fauna and flora species. This habitat will be restored using direct seeding methods.

Trees for Life Inc. $56,254 19,000 SA

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State

20MTR3-60 Coondoo Connections

The project will create and enhance habitat for Koala, Mary River Cod and Giant Barred Frog. It will strengthen buffers for adjacent subtropical lowland rainforest along Coondoo Creek, which is part of the Tinana Creek Riparian Corridor High Conservation Value Forest managed by HQPlantations. The site contains remnant lowland rainforest and flood plains, interspersed with permanent and ephemeral billabongs. Revegetation will occur on 17.7 ha along the south side of Coondoo Creek, which was previously invaded by a dense stand of pine wildlings, and a further 12.09 ha along a smaller tributary nearby. Revegetation will primarily be achieved by planting seedlings raised from local seed sources. This will be supplemented by actively encouraging any natural regrowth arising following the harvest of the pine wildlings.

HQPlantations Pty Ltd $107,580 26,425 QLD

20MTR3-65RtBC Habitat Enhancement - Salvana

Conservation Volunteer Australia’s (CVA) and Greening Australia (GA) are partnering to help revegetate cleared sections of CVA’s Salvana Conservation Reserve. This will improve the links between the West and Central blocks of the Little Desert National Park, creating a 132,000 ha biodiversity corridor and improving the conservation value of the region. Biodiversity and climate change resilience will be provided for threatened species like the South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (RTBC) (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne) and the Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata). The project will help protect and enhance critical feeding and habitat resources for the threatened RTBC, including linking fragmented patches of remnant vegetation benefiting local biodiversity and threatened species alike. The project will be carried out by CVA, GA, volunteers and the local community.

Ben Holmes $109,604 24,000 VIC

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-69Wilmot Biodiversity Regeneration Program

This Project will seek to greatly enhance a largely bare and barren portion of degraded farmland through the reintroduction of an array of native species of shrubs and trees, most notably the Eucalyptus nova anglica; a threatened species in this region. Wilmot has been practicing regenerative agriculture for the last five years and has made extraordinary improvements in land condition, waterways, ecology, and soil carbon. The next phase of this regeneration is to plant back a significant amount of native trees to make some big gains in biodiversity and carbon cycling. Trees will be planted along existing fence lines connecting native bushland areas on and around the property. This will create wildlife corridors for native birds and animals, improve biodiversity, slow wind across the landscape, and create far better nutrient cycling through the ecosystem.

Wilmot Cattle Company Pty Ltd $82,313 20,224 NSW

20MTR3-70Carnaby's habitat in the Moore catchment

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) are endemic to WA but are rapidly in decline with total population estimates of less than 60,000. Past and continuing clearing of breeding and forage habitat is threatening future survival. The project aims to increase Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo numbers through increasing and connecting priority breeding and forage Swan Banksia woodland and Wheatbelt Eucalypt woodland habitat. Planting will take place at 7 sites on 5 farms, and include engaging a local Working on Country Yued planting team.

Moore Catchment Council (MCC) $110,000 35,000 WA

20MTR3-96 Mount Urah Koala Habitat Restoration

The project will restore 27.18 hectares of koala habitat at Mount Urah through revegetation activities. Project activities will include fencing the site to exclude grazing activity, assisted seed and lignotuber regeneration, and the planting of 18,000 trees in areas where regeneration is unlikely. Restoration work on this site will buffer and link the surrounding forest, improving overall habitat values for the koala and providing additional feed trees.

Private Forestry Service Queensland

$110,000 20,000 QLD

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20MTR3-106 Narmbool migration corridors

Narmbool has an isolated population of Litoria Raniformus living in and around some waterbodies. This project will connect habitat refuge around two dams with water bodies by creating a tree corridor. This will support further indigenous plantings and will increase habitat post 2015 bushfire.


$110,000 20,000 VIC

20MTR3-107Joining the dots for Box Gum Woodlands

This project is focused on restoration of White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland across public and private landholdings in the southern tablelands of NSW. Revegetation will be carried out by planting tubestock and direct seeding to directly restore the threatened woodland community and benefit a range of associated threatened fauna such as the Regent honeyeater and Superb Parrot. The community will be involved through seed collection, plant propagation and tree planting activities, with a high level of ownership of each project to ensure its longevity.

Greening Australia Capital Region $70,785 15,000 NSW

20MTR3-110Figtree Bend Rainforest Restoration

This project will be undertaken in partnership with a local landholder and community volunteers to restore 4 ha of degraded pasture back to nationally threatened Lowland Rainforest Endangered Ecological Community through revegetation with 10,000 native locally endemic tubestock. The project will also enhance the riparian corridor of the Wilson's River and improve habitat for locally significant populations of the nationally threatened Koala.


$102,982 10,000 NSW

20MTR3-114 Bringing Back Woongarra Scrub

This project will re-establish 5 hectares of microphyll to notophyll vine forest known as Woongarra Scrub on land which is part of Baldwin Swamp Environmental Park. Hardy, pioneer species will be planted to form the basis of the new forest to enhance a 3.5km green corridor which runs through Bundaberg. Activities include seed collection, propagation, and planting, and will involve local Landcare nurseries, volunteers, and indigenous people.

Bundaberg Regional Council $21,200 6,000 QLD

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20MTR3-116 Planting for Yarra Pygmy Perch

This project will enhance biodiversity values and assist in the protection of threatened species including the Yarra Pygmy Perch, Australia Grayling and Swamp Greenhood at an integrated catchment scale through habitat protection and augmentation of 8.94 ha of Herb-rich Foothill Forest, Estuarine Wetland and Swamp Scrub habitat. The capacity of individuals and organisations to understand and manage vegetation for multiple benefits will increase through participation in re-vegetation activities by project site holders and students. This project will also reduce the impact of invasive plant and animal species through re-vegetation and control works. This will be achieved by enhancing and linking existing vegetation patches to create vegetation corridors in the project areas, improving water quality in the process.

Heytesbury District Landcare Network $73,238 18,000 VIC

20MTR3-120 Tallebudgera Koala Habitat Restoration

The project aims to increase, restore and connect koala habitat at Schuster Park, Tallebudgera. This will be undertaken through the planting of 20,000 koala food and habitat trees, and community engagement and assisted restoration to control threats from invasive weeds.

City of Gold Coast $86,000 20,000 QLD

20MTR3-122 The Restoration of the Waterview Site

Albury City’s wastewater treatment plant is located within close proximity to the Murray River and the surrounding Albury Ranges area which contains Box Gum Grassy Woodland. The treatment site area covers approximately 550 hectares including a waste water treatment plant, remnant and riparian vegetation, creek lines, and open paddocks. This project will focus on revegetating approximately 48 hectares and restoring it to its natural state of Box Gum Grassy Woodland. These plantings will improve the biodiversity value of the site, provide connectivity to the Albury Ranges, and improve the riparian habitat along the creek lines which provide important linkages to the Murray River and Wonga Wetlands.

Albury City Council $99,350 16,800 NSW

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-127 Restoration of Banksia Woodland

This project will restore 1 hectare of Banksia Woodland in Queens Park Regional Open Space. The restoration will buffer an existing Threatened Ecological Community (Banksia Woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain) and link it to other areas of fragmented native vegetation. The City of Canning will direct seed a completely degraded area (0.8ha) and infill a degraded area (0.2ha) with tubestock. Seed and plants used will be endemic to the area. The restoration will protect the existing Banksia Woodland and extend the area of habitat for wildlife including the Threatened Carnabys Black Cockatoo and the Forest Red Tail Black Cockatoo. The City will implement this project in partnership with local environmental group Friends of Queens Park Bushland.

City of Canning $34,160 8,250 WA

20MTR3-143 Improving the East Moorabool river

This project builds on the revegetation work by the previous 20 Million Tree project: Wombat Forest to Brisbane Ranges - A Linked Moorabool landscape. Some of the planned revegetation areas are already fenced and ready for ground preparations prior to tree planting. The East Moorabool river is one of the most degraded rivers in the catchment and this project will dramatically enhance existing native vegetation and existing vegetation linkages.

Moorabool Catchment Landcare Group Inc

$110,000 27,200 VIC

20MTR3-146 Moree Water Park Nature Refuge

The Moree Water Ski Club ( MWSC) has partnered with the Moree Plains Shire Council ( MPSC) , Job link Plus and the Work for the Dole program to create a Nature Reserve within the Moree Water Park by planting thousands of native trees and shrubs in the coming years. The project has already planted 1500 natives most under drip irrigation. This project’s goals are to focus on tree and native shrub species that will further support native birds and reptiles particularly those attracted by the adjoining man-made lakes.

Moree water Ski Club Incorporated $29,500 7,000 NSW

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-148 Swift Parrot: Winter Wanderers.

This project will revegetate 52.38 ha of suitable habitat for the threatened migratory Swift Parrot by reinstating natural food sources and planting key winter-flowering species. It will improve the extent, condition and connectivity of the EPBC Threatened Ecological Communities: Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodland and Box Gum Grassy Woodland. The project will strategically revegetate with 25800 plants (16800 >2m) to increase the extent of food tree habitat and structural diversity in fertile areas on private land. Winter food trees are distributed patchily across the landscape and therefore more areas need to be planted to increase food tree availability, particularly in relatively fertile areas that provide more reliable resources, which have been disproportionately cleared.

Goulburn Broken CMA $100,000 16,800 VIC

20MTR3-155Restoring threatened EP Blue Gum, Lipson

This project will be undertaken on the Warratta Vale property near Lipson. It will enhance a section of Salt Creek with 6,500 trees and 5000 understory plants established via direct seeding, providing species richness and recreating EP Blue Gums woodland. The planting will also conserve the remaining EP Blue Gums and remnant vegetation in this section of Salt Creek by increasing the biodiversity and enabling long-term health and viability of the creek lines native vegetation.

Eastern Lower EP Landcare Management Com

$22,550 6,500 SA

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(above 2m mature)

State

20MTR3-165Restoring VVP Woodlands to Northern CLL

Less than 0.01% of Pre European Victorian Volcanic Plains (VVP) vegetation remains, with remnant areas threatened by fragmentation and clearing. This project will revegetate 31.9 hectares of cleared agricultural land across the northern Corangamite Lakes Landcare (CLL) area with EPBC listed endangered VVP Grassy Eucalyptus Woodlands to increase spatial extent of the EVC and habitat area. Plantings will establish contiguous and stepping stone corridors to improve connectivity between VVP woodlands lying at the northern end of the CLL area, (near Skipton and Enfield State Forest) and Pomborneit and Jancourt Conservation Reserves at the southern end. Participating landholders will make significant co-contributions to grant funds.

Landcare Victoria Inc $105,710 29,070 VIC

20MTR3-177 Moresby Range Restoration

This project will revegetate 40ha of Moresby Conservation Park to restore the Priority Ecological Community which provides habitat for threatened species including Carnaby's cockatoo, Moresby Range drummondita, box mallee, Hoffman's spider orchid, and bracted grevillea.

The area is frequented by Carnaby's cockatoo and revegetation will include species which will increase feeding habitat for this threatened fauna species. It will also increase and improve habitat and provide connectivity between populations of Hoffman's spider orchid and Moresby Range drummondita, and increase the population size and habitat for box mallee and bracted grevillea.

Parks and Wildlife Service $96,880 34,092 WA

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-184 Restoration of a Tasmanian Devil den

The project involves restoring approximately 30 hectares of native forest on an ex-pine plantation site. It will protect a maternal Tasmanian Devil den, karst landforms including extensive caves and sinkholes, and improve native forest connectivity. Reforestation will use a combination of direct seeding and planting, and follow up weeding and fire management will occur. The project will be supported by the Forest Practices Authority (FPA) who will monitor the maternal devil den site as part of their effectiveness monitoring.

Norske Skog Boyer $33,000 31,000 TAS

20MTR3-188GIPA Rainforest Regeneration Project

Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area (GIPA) is owned & managed by Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated (NWGCAA). Recent surveys of GIPA have field validated a large portion of Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia as well as documented several EPBC listed threatened species.

This project will protect, enhance and contribute to knowledge about this important ecological community and the plants that grow within. Revegetation activities along critical buffer areas will provide Indigenous training and employment opportunities, whilst alleviating threats of degradation and fire.

Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Associ

$100,727 20,000 QLD

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-197Central Wheatbelt EPBC habitat security

The southwest of Western Australia is Australia’s only recognised biodiversity hotspot. The Avon river basin is home to the EPBC listed Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt threatened ecological community (TEC). With over 100 species listed as threatened under the EPBC Act, the biodiversity assets of this region are both highly fragmented and in decline. This is further compounded by the threats posed by non-natives.

This project will take place within the TEC and will assist in securing habitat for a number of species including the Numbat, Western quoll (Chuditch), Woylie, and Malleefowl, as well as other EPBC listed species. Project in-kind activities, including sophisticated threat mitigation and stock exclusion, will secure habitat from vertebrate pests to improve functionality.

Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management Inc

$110,000 40,000 WA

20MTR3-223Building Future Superb Parrot Habitat

This project aims to build strategic habitat for the threatened Superb Parrot along the Broken Creek corridor, providing connectivity and increased extent of core habitat while reducing edge effects. The 52 hectare site will be revegetated with indigenous species, through direct seeding and tubestock planting of shrubs and trees. Seed production will be considered to provide a genetically robust seed source for future revegetation projects.

Goulburn Broken CMA $100,000 16,000 VIC

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-227 Revegetation in the Coorong & Tatiara

In partnership with Coorong and Tatiara District Councils the Coorong Tatiara Local Action Plan (CTLAP), this project will restore critical habitat within the Coorong and Tatiara Districts of South Australia. It will restore 117 ha of habitat within the RAMSAR listed wetlands, enabling 61,180 plants to be planted across a number of private properties. It will also restore 34 ha of Grey Box Grassy Woodland by planting trees and associated understorey. This will enhance existing vegetation and connect integral remnant vegetation through creating corridors which will in turn provide areas of refugia for local native wildlife, in particular threatened species such as the Orange-Bellied Parrot, the Southern Bell frog, Malleefowl, and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo.

Coorong District Council $100,000 55,720 SA

20MTR3-234Eaglehawk Waterhole revegetation

Eaglehawk Waterhole is a 684 ha former farm which includes 510 ha of previously grazed and partly cleared woodland habitat. It is a key feeding and roosting site for the nationally endangered SE Red-tailed Black-cockatoo (RTBC).

This project expands on previous plantings by infill planting and direct seeding to restore woodland habitat structure and diversity within a further 270 ha degraded portion of the property. It will emphasise tree species for the RTBC (Brown Stringybark and Buloke) and associated threatened or rare understorey plants.

The plants will be grown in the Nature Glenelg Trust operated community nursery in Mount Gambier. Seeds will be collected from the property with the support of community volunteers.

The Trustee for Nature Glenelg Trust

$110,000 23,000 SA

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(above 2m mature)

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20MTR3-242Upper Blackwood Woodland Fauna Habitat

This project will provide 68.8 hectares of native vegetation cover to increase the extent of the nationally listed ‘Eucalyptus Woodlands of the WA wheatbelt (Critically Endangered) and will provide new habitat nodes for the nationally listed Red-tailed Phascogale (Vulnerable). The Red-tailed Phascogale once extended across semiarid and arid Australia but is now confined entirely to a heavily cleared and fragmented portion of the southern wheatbelt of Western Australia. The species persists in <1% of its former range where up to 84% of native vegetation has been cleared for agriculture.

Shire of Kent $100,000 55,040 WA

20MTR3-246 Caring for Our Cockys

This project will transform low economic value farmland in Balingup, W.A. into high conservation value habitat for native plants and animals, including the endangered Carnaby's Cockatoo, and the vulnerable Baudin's and Forrest Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos. The area is also known to be habitat for the vulnerable Chudich, Numbat and Western Ringtail Possum. A total area of 13.11 ha will be protected by installing 422 m of fencing, converting an existing dam into a wetland, and planting 8,450 native seedlings. The creation of a wetland may also have the added benefit of encouraging waterbirds, such as the critically endangered Australasian Bittern, and the state priority listed Little Bittern and Black Bittern.

Blackwood Basin Group $34,892 9,220 WA

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20MTR3-258 Mount Burr Swamp revegetation

The project will restore 5.72 ha of wet heath (wetland fringe) and brown stringybark (E. baxteri)/manna gum (E. viminalis ssp. cygnetensis) forest through revegetation and natural regeneration. The area to be restored will enlarge an existing 600 ha area of high quality native vegetation protected within Marshes Native Forest Reserve (NFR). Marshes NFR provides verified habitat for no less than six nationally threatened fauna species, including the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Growling Grass Frog, Southern Bent-wing Bat, Australasian Bittern and South-eastern Red-tailed Black-cockatoo. The project will expand and enhance habitat for these species.

The Trustee for Nature Glenelg Trust

$110,000 43,710 SA

20MTR3-262 Yellingbo habitat restoration

This project will increase habitat availability for the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater and endangered Leadbeaters Possum. It will improve habitat condition and food availability for these EPBC-listed species across a 1.37ha site.The project will engage approximately 1000 volunteers over 3 years to deliver ecological outcomes, underpinned by explicit habitat modelling and best-practise restoration science. The project site will include a deer exclusion fence to protect the revegetation from predation.

Cecilia Imre $110,000 33,350 VIC

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20MTR3-264Mary River Trail Rainforest Restoration

This Project involves the restoration of Lowland Subtropical Rainforest along the first stage of a multi-stage, multi-year Gympie Regional Council’s ‘River to Rail Trail’ network development. The trail construction will facilitate vehicle access, which in turn provides opportunities to continue ecological restoration along the Mary River in areas previously inaccessible. The River to Rail Trail concept anticipates interpretive signage along the route, to raise awareness and educate recreational users about the natural and historical values of the area.This project aims to establish canopy and ground cover layers using species typical of the Threatened Ecological Community to out-compete aggressive invasive species, facilitate natural regeneration of the rainforest, and enhance the nature-based recreation experience of visitors and locals using the trail network.

Gympie Regional Council $100,000 20,000 QLD

20MTR3-270 Revegetating farms of the VVP

This project will restore key structural species from the Grassy Eucalypt Woodlands (EVC 55) of the Victorian Volcanic Plain across over 51ha of private pastoral land in Western Victoria. The project will result in multiple co-benefits to the agricultural and environmental sustainability of the region, including the following outcomes: - Direct seeding of 12.2 ha and tubestock planting of 47,600 indigenous species of local provenance; - Restoration of key Grassy Eucalypt Woodland structural species, particularly understory species, to restore the missing species and structural composition of the original EVC to the landscape;- Build upon previous revegetation activities to increase extent and landscape connectivity of habitat across the landscape.- Increase habitat corridor along the regionally significant Wannon River.

Dunkeld Pastoral Company $82,236 44,600 VIC

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20MTR3-276Topaz Cassowary Corridor and Enrichment

The purpose of this project is to re-establish critical native rainforest habitat through removal of invasive weeds including Weed of National Significance Lantana camara, and enrichment direct seeding and planting, on an ecologically degraded site. Planting of appropriate tree species will expand the habitat for the Endangered Southern Cassowary, a keystone species that is under threat from anthropogenic pressures. Adjacent to the Wet Tropics World Heritage listed Wooroonooran National Park this revegetation will increase the buffer zone of the WTWHA and connect forest fragments to increase the effective habitat footprint of the park. The project will entail extensive weed removal and rehabilitation in the vicinity of the Johnstone River and Russell River catchments, which are extremely important drainage basins that need to be carefully managed to ensure the health of the Great Barrier Reef.

Diane Lucas $110,000 25,000 QLD

20MTR3-281 Reinstating lost Plains Woodland

Grassy Eucalypt Woodlands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain are a critically endangered ecological community. The project seeks to reinstate lost and fragmented grassy woodland through various restoration techniques, including direct seeding and supplementary tubestock planting. This will create an important link to existing high value coastal vegetation surrounding Limeburner’s Lagoon. The grassy woodland will connect corridors and create habitat for important birdlife found at the internationally significant and Ramsar listed Limeburner’s Lagoon. Awareness of this threatened ecosystem will be created through partnerships with Conservation Volunteers Australia, Gordon Tafe and Deakin University Institute of Koorie Education.

Greening Australia (VIC) Ltd $110,000 10,000 VIC

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20MTR3-284 NTAC NRM Land Care

This project will engage trainees, landholders, community members, visitors/tourists, and other community groups and local business's to increase the area of a threatened community at the Spring Fed Head of South Cedar Creek Ravenshoe. This community project will restore the area by revegetating rainforested fragments in the landscape by and planting 25,000 native tree species to enhance connectivity between fragmented rainforest pockets on private land. This will provide a safe haven and feeding grounds for protecting the threatened southern cassowary and the Torrent Tree Frog/Waterfall Frog. The project will enhance a 55 acre remnant pocket of notophyl mabi and mesophyll forest through revegetation of riparian waterways and connect with the remnant pocket to create corridors and buffer zones.

Ngyangabarra Traditional Aboriginal Corp

$94,490 20,000 QLD

20MTR3-293Restoring VVP Woodlands to Southern CLL

Less than 0.01% of Pre European Victorian Volcanic Plains (VVP) vegetation remains, with remnant areas threatened by fragmentation and clearing. This project will revegetate 28 hectares of cleared agricultural land across the Southern Corangamite Lakes Landcare (CLL) area with EPBC listed endangered VVP Grassy Eucalyptus Woodlands to increase spatial extent and habitat area. Plantings will establish contiguous and stepping stone corridors to improve connectivity between VVP woodlands lying at the northern end of the CLL area, (near Skipton and Enfield State Forest) and Pomborneit and Jancourt Conservation Reserves at the southern end, which extend onto the Otway Ranges. Participating landholders will make significant co-contributions to grant funds.

Landcare Victoria Inc. $94,380 26,010 VIC

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20MTR3-295 Upper Barwon 20 Million Trees project

The vision of the Upper Barwon Landcare Network is to provide a ‘matrix of biodiversity’ across the landscape, providing links both within and beyond our region to increase the abundance and resilience of indigenous species. This project will improve the extent, condition and connectivity of native vegetation in the Otway Plain bioregion, with the specific aim of protecting threatened ecological communities and species. The project will involve strategic revegetation of farm land to build biodiverse linkages between previous revegetation sites, existing remnants, water ways and across catchments. The project activities include revegetation of 17 sites on private land, totalling approximately 8.7 ha, which will be protected by the erection of stock exclusion fencing. This revegetation will be carried out to the relevant Ecological Vegetation Classes, predominantly Grassy Woodland.

Upper Barwon Landcare Network $47,839 8,500 VIC

20MTR3-296 Mortlock EPBC habitat security

The southwest of Western Australia is Australia’s only recognised biodiversity hotspot. The Avon river basin is home to the EPBC listed Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt threatened ecological community (TEC). With over 100 species listed as threatened under the EPBC Act, the biodiversity assets of this region are both highly fragmented and in decline. This is further compounded by the threats posed by non-natives.

This project will take place within the TEC and will assist in securing habitat for a number of species including the Numbat, Western quoll (Chuditch), Woylie, and Malleefowl, as well as other EPBC listed species. Project in-kind activities, including sophisticated threat mitigation and stock exclusion, will secure habitat from vertebrate pests to improve functionality.

Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management In

$110,000 40,000 WA

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20MTR3-300Grassy Woodland Connectivity Enhancement

The project will enhance the extent and connectivity of Box Gum Grassy Woodland near Queanbeyan. The area is part of the White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland critically endangered ecological community.

Properties involved in the project have stable ownership and a commitment to conservation land management. Tree planting will provide regeneration of species which are not regenerating well naturally. Without active regeneration, the ecological community will degrade due to a lack of tree canopy species recruitment and eventual death of established trees. Planting and maintenance will be conducted by Conservation Volunteers Australia and the local community.

The landscape position suggests potential Aboriginal cultural sensitivity may exist and so a survey will be conducted by members of the Ngunnawal community prior to commencement.

Molonglo Catchment Group $89,584 7,800 NSW

20MTR3-303Gabbin Reserve Buffer and North Corridor

This project will build on a 10 year mission to provide a 25 kilometre vegetated habitat link for the vulnerable malleefowl, known to inhabit three neighbouring reserves (Gabbin, Narkal and Mulji reserves), in the Eastern Wheatbelt of WA. The project will develop a section of habitat corridor to the north and a vegetative buffer to the east of the Gabbin Reserve in a part of the Australian landscape that has been largely cleared of native vegetation and is at risk from climate change. Activities will include local seed collecting, a community tree-planting and education event that includes delivering Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, working with the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife to conduct a survey of the reserve, and implementing threat mitigation for the Leipoa ocellata and other threatened species.

Avongro Incorporated $57,695 42,040 WA

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20MTR3-320Strategic koala corridor revegetation

This project will connect areas of high value vegetation including Castlereagh Scribbly Gum and Agnes Banks Woodlands of the Sydney Basin Bioregion. It will restore habitat that links functional corridors for threatened species and enhance the overall environmental values in urban areas. Tree planting activities will not only offer significant environmental outcomes by re-instating preferred koala food trees, but in the longer term will also develop environmental stewardship in the region with koalas and their habitat as a flagship species.

Campbelltown City Council $82,000 22,100 NSW

20MTR3-321Stirling Banksia Woodlands Restoration

The City of Stirling aims to enhance the biodiversity of bushlands and ecological linkages for protecting and sustaining nationally and internationally significant fauna and ecological communities. Natural areas within the City represents five remnant bushland complexes which contain three State listed threatened ecological communities (TEC), one Federally listed ecological communities, and habitat for nine EPBC listed fauna species.This project will transform declining TEC bushlands into highly biodiverse areas, increasing primary food sources and strengthening our ecological linkages between major bushlands.

City of Stirling $60,000 21,000 WA

20MTR3-330 Creating Habitat for Camden White Gum

The project will undertake the staged removal of 4 ha of woody weeds along a portion of the Nepean River at the Camden Town Farm. This will allow replacement planting of 22,000 trees and shrubs to extend the Endangered Ecological Community ‘River-flat Eucalypt Forest’ and create habitat for the Nationally Threatened plant, Camden White Gum (Eucalyptus benthamii). This project will re-instate 200 Camden White Gum along the Nepean River and promote gene flow with wild stands to ensure the long-term survival of the species. The community of Camden will be involved through a Bushcare group and community planting events on World Environment Day (June), National Tree Day (July) and Threatened Species Day (September).

Camden Council $91,600 13,200 NSW

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20MTR3-335 One Tree Matters.

One Tree Matters will rehabilitate degraded, unused land to create and enhance habitat for threatened and endangered flora, fauna, and ecosystems. Invasive pest species will be removed and eradicated to create climate change resilience at the proposed sites. Using volunteer and contract labour the local community will be engaged to build forests and bolster social networks for a common goal of environmental preservation. This project will enhance water quality and nutrient run off to river systems and will involve transfer of knowledge with Traditional Owners and community leaders. Rubbish will also be removed from sites and educational awareness initiatives will occur. Direct habitat for the Southern Cassowary and Mahogany Glider will be created and river banks and riparian zones will be rehabilitated.

Brettacorp Inc. $100,000 15,000 QLD

20MTR3-338 Trees for the Valley

This project aims to add trees to the agricultural landscape between Morwell and Traralgon, to provide shade, windbreaks, and stepping-stone habitats along the route of the Traralgon to Morwell shared bicycle path. The trees added will improve waterway health and vegetation connectivity, and expand and protect the remnant bushland. With mixed plantings of canopy trees and tall shrubs, we will be providing habitat for a variety of small and large birds, insects, reptiles, the threatened Strzelecki Gum, Eucalyptus strzelekii.

Latrobe City Council $79,200 19,800 VIC

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20MTR3-341Restoring Country at Mimburi on the Mary

5 ha of critically endangered Lowland Subtropical Rainforest will be re-vegetated using 15,000 trees on riparian floodplain of the Mary River at the renowned Education Queensland owned and managed outdoor and agricultural learning property 'Mimburi". The project will enhance existing narrow riparian fringe vegetation on Blackfellow Creek, Belli Creek and the Mary River and will directly enhance habitat quality for the EPBC listed Mary River Cod, Mary River Turtle, Queensland Lungfish and Giant Barred Frog. The project will enable enhanced natural resource management learning opportunities for Noosa and District High School students.

Noosa & District Landcare Group $110,000 15,000 QLD

20MTR3-343Ropes Creek Community Restoration Site

This project extends the community, connectivity and species diversity outcomes achieved under Greening Australia’s current Cumberland Stepping Stones projects. Greening Australia staff and corporate volunteers will install a diverse mix of trees and shrubs to increase the extent, connectivity and condition of remnant Cumberland Plain Woodland at a key location in the Ropes and South Creek Corridor. This project’s planting activities will have an output of 12,900 trees above 2m, across 7ha.

Greening Australia (NSW) Ltd $63,745 12,900 NSW

20MTR3-352 Annan Creek Restoration

Annan Creek runs through the grounds of Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living. This degraded and eroded creek suffered from clearing, agricultural practices and neglect over the last 200 years. This project will begin the restoration of the creek by planting 10,500 trees and shrubs on 1.7 ha along the creek and surrounding spaces, increasing the extent and condition of Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest. The restoration will also be incorporated into the Centre's volunteer engagement programs and awareness of the importance of revegetation will be incorporated into the outdoor environmental education programs of the Centre, actively engaging the local, urban residents.

Greening Australia (NSW) Ltd $65,747 10,500 NSW

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20MTR3-363 TCCR Revegetation Project

The Thurgoona Country Club Resort grounds consists of remnant vegetation of the White Box-Yellow Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Woodland, with Woolshed Creek flowing through it. This project covers an important habitat area and corridor for a number of threatened species in the Albury area, including Squirrel Gliders, Speckede Warbler, Swift Parrot and Sloane's Froglet. The revegetation work will re-establish over 10 ha of overstorey and understorey plants within the Threatened Ecological Community, supporting threatened species and other fauna that utilise the area.

Dean Lewis $105,600 40,000 NSW

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