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State NRM Program community projectsSuccessful projects – March 2010

Successful projects – May 2011Successful projects - December 2011

Successful projects - October 2012Successful projects - November 2013

AbbreviationsLCDC – Land Conservation District Committee

NRM – Natural Resource Management

WoNS – Weeds of National Significance

Successful projects – March 2010Northern Agricultural regionProponent Project title Grant

Bush Heritage Australia Fire management and feral animal control on Charles Darwin Reserve $19 000

Moore Catchment Council Recovery and Protection of Moore River Catchments threatened natural assets $199 800

Shire of Chapman Valley Moresby Ranges Plan Implementation Phase 1 and engagement $145 000

Perth regionProponent Project title Grant

Australian Wildlife Conservancy Securing the future of the Karakamia Woylies $50 000

Blackadder Woodbridge Catchment Group Blackadder Subcatchment biosecurity $25 000

Chittering Valley LCDC Weed control in Lake Needonga $10 500

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council Native fish fauna monitoring of the Helena River $34 459

Friends of Bennett Brook Post fire restoration of Bennett Brook to protect water quality and the endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot.

$72 728

Rangelands regionProponent Project title Grant

Australian Wildlife Conservancy Calotropis control - Annie Creek $24 000

Parkinsonia control in the Upper Fitzroy Catchment $36 000

Weed eradication on Faure Island wildlife santuary in world heritage listed Shark Bay $19 500

Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, Murdoch University

Conserving with community the endangered freshwater sawfish in the Fitzroy River $110 000

Environs Kimberley Managing fire and biodiversity conservation in the West Kimberley $99 000

Kimberley Land Council Assessing and managing the impacts of feral pigs on high conservation value waterways in the upper Fitzroy River catchment

$36 128

North Kimberley LCDC Kimberley Grader Grass Action Plan $10 000

Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee Advancing effective management of invasive weeds in Pilbara $140 500

Tirralintji Aboriginal Community Weed control at Lake Gladstone $9 000

University of Western Australia Effects of nutrient enrichment and toxic Lyngbya blloms on benthic invertebtates and migratory shorebird communities of Roebuck Bay Ramsar site

$141 561

Yawoorroong Miriuwung Gajerrong Yirrgeb Noog Dawang Aboriginal Corporation

Miriuwung Gajerrong fire management $250 000

South coast regionProponent Project title Grant

Fitzgerald Biosphere Group Buffering priority areas by controlling the spread of dieback - Western Fitzgerald Biosphere $110 000

Green Skills Geekabee Hill ecolink remnant vegetation $17 570

Kimberley Land Council Mitigation of biosecurity threats along the north east Kimberley coast $106 000

Oyster Harbour Catchment Group Management actions to address climate change and degradation of Oyster Harbour catchment $116 000

South Coast NRM Controlling priority invasive weed species in South Coast $246 000

Environmental weed control surrounding the Porongurups $49 500

Protection and recovery of high priority biodiversity assests in South Coast $140 000

Protection by prevention -protecting priority areas from dieback; Eastern South Coast $127 218

Protection by prevention -protecting priority areas from dieback; Walpole wilderness and Mt Lindesay $104 218

South Coast Progress Association Weeding Group

Introduced wattle eradication South Coast $6 000

South west regionProponent Project title Grant

Augusta-Margaret River Tourism Association

Lake and Jewel Cave Hydrology and recovery $150 000

Cape to Cape Catchments Group Protecting and restoring ecological connectivity within the Cape to Cape catchment $45 000

Hotham Catchment Landcare Coordination of feral pig control to reduce the impacts in Peel-Harvey and Leschenault Catchments $250 000

Katanning LCDC Fighting bridal creeper in the Upper Blackwood $84 600

Leschenault Catchment Council Maintaining the WA Blackberry containment line $229 676

Peel Harvey Catchment Council Mayfield main drain sub-catchment water quality improvement plan including foundational activities $53 669

Serpentine River Group/Lowlands Conservation Association

Protecting and restoring freshwater ecosystem health in the Serpentine River, an adaptive management approach

$18 700

Shire of Capel Fox control across the Capel, Dardanup and Busselton Shires $74 996

Shire of Collie Biodiversity assessment and planning, and commencing management of Shire of Collie natural reserves $50 000

Shire of Murray Fencing, weed and access control in priority Shire of Murray Reserves $16 500

Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale Protection and enhancement of a priority 4 species and enhancement of wetlands in bush forever site 378, Serpentine

$14 000

Walpole-Nornalup National Parks Association

Protection of the Owingup Wetland System $165 000

Warren Catchment Council Control of Blackberry and Bridal Creeper in the Warren River catchment $150 000

Wheatbelt regionProponent Project title Grant

Birds Australia, WA Carnaby's Black Cockatoo Recovery $250 000

Camm River Paleo-Valley Rehabilitation Committee

Camm River Paleo-valley rehabilitation $150 000

Shire of Mt Marshall Mt Marshall Malleefowl Awareness $15 000

Shire of Narembeen Control of mammalian pest species to protect and enhance threatened Red Tailed Phascogale and allow re-establishment of other threatened fauna at Wadderin Sanctuary

$114 008

Western Australian Local Government Association

Developing strategic road reserve asset management plans to maximise biodiversity, land, water conservation outcomes by local government

$170 500

Wheatbelt NRM Establishment of Wheatbelt Regional Biosecurity Group $82 500

Red card for red fox and rabbit $110 000

Riparian improvement of priority Avon River Pools - Gwambygine $200 000

Water management planning for Avon Arc towns $71 200

Successful projects – May 2011

Northern agricultural regionProponent Project title Grant

City of Geraldton-GreenoughFowler’s fencing – linking Moresby Ranges and Chapman River $19 500

Chapman River Wildlife Corridor Regeneration stage 1 $48 700

Malleefowl Preservation Group Terra Grata malleefowl survey $10 000

Moore Catchment Council Improving habitat and connectivity in the farming landscape for birds in the Moore River catchment $32 000

Shire of Chapman ValleyMoresby Ranges Plan Implementation phase 2 and engagement $50 000

Upper Chapman River Catchment Action Plan Implementation $50 000

West Koojan Gillingarra LCDC Ensuring the long term effectiveness of saltland reclamation adjacent to the Moore River, Gillingarra $50 000

West Midlands GroupProtecting on-farm remnants $44 552

Sustaining our environment and agricultural assets through vermin control in the West Midlands $43 900


Bungendore Park Management Committee Dieback treatment and weed control Bungendore Park and adjacent land $16 500

Canning River Regional Park Volunteers Nicholson Rd billabong flood plain restoration $23 815

Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, Murdoch University

Halting the infestation of the aggressive freshwater fish, the Pearl Cichlid in the Swan River catchment $45 588

City of Belmont Garvey Park Foreshore Stabilisation Section 4 $32 786

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council Strengthening Our Streams - riparian restoration of priority areas of the Swan and Helena Rivers $47 415

Friends of Lake Claremont Revegetation of the north west section of Lake Claremont to restore indigenous woodlands $45 000

Friends of Queens Park Bushland Hand weeding and mapping environmental weeds in the Queens Park Regional Open Space Reserves $30 400

Murdoch University Invasive weed eradication within the Beeliar Regional Park - Murdoch University $10 000

Shire of Mundaring Watsonia roadside control within the Jane Brook catchment $17 000

South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare

Nicholson Rd bushland restoration and weed management (Bush Forever site 456) $43 585

Regeneration and revegetation on the Canning River foreshore $50 000

Swan Estuary Reserves Action Group The restoration of the ecological integrity of Pelican Point A Class Reserve $32 785

Town of Kwinana Revegetation and weed control on the limestone heath land of Chalk Hill, Kwinana $13 000

Wilson Wetlands Action Group Fern Rd East - revegetation stage 1 $22 655


Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation Pilbara aboriginal native seed collection and propagation $50 000

Australian Wildlife Conservancy 2011 bird survey of Faure Island wildlife sanctuary: shorebirds, pied cormorants and future translocations $25 820

Central Desert Native Title ServicesA natural and cultural heritage management strategy for Ngururrpa Country $49 740

A comprehensive assessment of the natural and cultural assets of the Carnarvon Ranges $50 000

Environs Kimberley Roebuck Bay fine scale habitat modelling to determine key habitat for marine wildlife and prey $26 950

Greening Australia (WA) Eighty Mile Beach Ramsar site fencing $50 000

Ord Land and Water Protecting environmental and agricultural assets of the East Kimberley $50 000

South coast regionProponent Project title Grant Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation Fish traps $50 000

Bushcarers Group Lake Seppings western shore rehabilitation $10 520

Esperance Regional Forum Riparian vegetation protection and livestock exclusion fencing in the Stokes Inlet and Coomalbidgup catchments $36 000

Fitzgerald Biosphere Group Increasing land management capacity and protection of rehabilitation and conservation values in the Western Fitzgerald Biosphere $50 000

Frenchman Bay Association Construction of bird hide at Lake Vancouver, Goode Beach, Vancouver Peninsula, Albany $14 000

Friends of the Porongurup Ranges Declared and environmental weed control in and around the National Heritage listed Porongurup National Park $50 000

Gillamii Centre The treatment of invasive Golden Wattle populations within the Gillamii service area. $47 700

Green Skills Senecio glastifolius eradication $50 000

King River Weed Control and River Restoration Group Meet and greet to preserve our reserves $22 500

North Stirlings Pallinup Natural Resources Greening tributaries of the Pallinup River and promoting landcare in the North Stirlings Pallinup region $48 900

Ravensthorpe Agricultural Initiative Network Improving the health, water quality and community awareness of Dunn's Swamp at Hoptoun $11 100

Shire of Denmark Biodiversity surveys Mt Hallowell Reserve and Wilson Inlet Foreshore Reserves, Denmark $19 560

Shire of Esperance Walker St Public Open Space $20 000

Torbay Catchment Group Drain restoration, revegetation and weed control along a section of Undeyup Creek $22 969

Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee Watsonia control in Narrikup $10 000

South coast region continued…Proponent Project title Grant

Dujimerrup Twonkup Aboriginal Corporation

An indigenous restoration initiative: fencing and revegetation of riparian and remnant revegetation on Dowrene Farm $27 500

Grahams Land and Sea Aboriginal Corporation Protection and enhancement of a heritage listed fragile wetland and surrounding remnant bushland $38 000

Shire of Denmark Revegetation of priority sites on the Wilson Inlet Foreshore Reserves, Denmark $8 010

Tambellup Noongar Land Aboriginal Corporation Integrated property management to contain salinity and protect riparian land (Gordon River) on Tammar Farms $45 300

Wongutha CAPS Development Trust

Protection/enhancement of remnant bushland and addressing soil erosion with windbreaks and perennial pastures Wongutha CAPS $28 000


Blackwood Basin Group Plans to action on ground funding for the Blackwood $50 000

Capel LCDCArum Lily eradication in Capel Tuart forests at Ludlow and Minninup $14,000

Fencing to enhance the survival of diverse flora of Minninup Block of the Ludlow Tuart forest $20 000

Cape to Cape Protecting high value assets in the Quininup catchment by assessing its condition and on ground actions $48 760

Coolup LCDC Fox and rabbit control in the coastal Peel-Harvey catchment $11,000

Geographe Catchment Council Keeping Geographe Bay OK – reducing nutrient from urban areas $45 500

Katanning LCDC

Continuing the fight against bridal creeper $50,000

From drain to living stream – Katanning Creek $36 050

Much to do about saving a lake – Ewlymartup $42 590

Keysbrook Environmental Group Protection of rare flora against Phytophthora attack on conservation zone in Keysbrook $14 100

Landcare SJ Invasive species control and revegetation for protection of threatened ecological communities in Brickwood Reserve, Byford $17 600

Serpentine Jarrahdale Shire

Weed control in Reserves that contain TEC and Declared Flora in Serpentine $19,000

Instigating biological control methods against mistletoe within the old Rifle Range Reserve, Byford $47,330

Healthy habitats $48 900

Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes Strategic wash down bays, equipment and procedures to minimise soil stored Cape Broom seed dispersals $12,200

Southern Aboriginal Corporation Improving fauna movement and rehabilitating saline lands on Marribank Farms to protect Blackwood River tributaries $38 000


Shire of Mt Marshall Protection and preservation of Mt Marshall Rock Reserve $8 900

Shire of Quairading Quairading Town Common Reserve water and revegetation $15 000

Shire of York Protection and conservation of the Avon River in the York Shire $5 760

Southern Brook Catchment Group Southern Brook revitalisation: protecting and enhancing key tributaries and conservation assets in the Southern Brook locality $48 983

Successful projects - December 2011Northern Agricultural region

Proponent Project title Grant

Shire of Moora Revegetation of identified key conservation sites in Moora $17 646


Australian Wildlife Conservancy Protecting threatened species on Faure Island Shark Bay $12 460

Strategic and cooperative control of weeds on Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary $30 600

Lyndon LCDC Controlling animal movements onto Lake McLeod $22 000

Fencing fragile areas surrounding the Exmouth Gulf $42 300

Ngurawaana Group Aboriginal Corp Managing biodiversity - Yindjibarndi way $22 500


Shire of Westonia Vermin and weed control $10 513


Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group Restoring Southern River, Gosnells Bush Forever site 246 $14 400

Black Cockatoo Preservation Society of Australia Incorporated

Replacing 25 acres of Northern Jarrah Forest for Black Cockatoo food source and roosting habitats $40 000

Chittering Valley LCDC Rehabilitation of Aquila and Carty Reserves $42 500

City of Armadale Post fire rehabilitation of Lloyd Hughes Park $17 500

City of Vincent Walters Brook restoration $45 000

Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group

Mapping and treatment of dieback in the Ellen Brook sub-region $39 384

Pearce Base-south - Ellen Brook revegetation stage 1 $50 000

Friends of Booragoon and Blue Gum Lakes

Biodiversity protection and enhancement of Booragoon Lake Reserve $22 500

Friends of Lake Claremont Extension of revegetation to the north west section of Lake Claremont to restore indigenous woodlands $50 000

Friends of Lightning Swamp Bushland Weed control at Lightning Swamp to prevent the vegetation buffer from becoming a weed highway $10 140

Friends of Mary Carroll Lake Revegetation of the Five Islands at Mary Carroll Lake, Bush Forever site 124 $18 100

Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School Watsonia and noxious weed eradication $14 000

Mullaloo Beach Community Group Mullaloo Dune Revegetation Project $10 000

North Swan LCDC Bullsbrook biodiversity corridor stage 5 $22 840

South East Regional Centre of Urban Landcare

Regeneration and revegetation of the Canning River Foreshore $50 000

Perth region continued…Proponent Project title Grant

Swan Estuary Reserves Action Group Restoration of the ecological integrity of Pelican Point A Class Reserve Stage 2 $15 713

Wilson Wetlands Action Group Fern Rd East revegetation stage 2 $22 700


Blackwood Basin Group Addressing salinity in the Dinninup catchment $50 000

Cape to Cape Catchment Group Protection and rehabilitation action on four high priority Leeuwin Ridge streams $50 000

Greening Australia (WA) Nell's Block community education $36 190

Harvey River Restoration Taskforce Upper and Lower Harvey River demonstration project $25 572

Shire of Bridgetown Greenbushes Wood for wildlife, conserving our bushland reserves $14 850

Shire of Busselton Phytophthora dieback assessment and management in Ambergate Reserve $15 000

Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup Watsonia control along Balingup Brook $10 000

Shire of Manjimup Mottram Street Reserve: returning a significant stream and town forest reserve towards their natural state $39 600

Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone The vital link – community corridor revegetation of the Great Southern Highway between Woodanilling and Wagin

$13 050

Warren Catchments Council Control of isolated populations of highly invasive environmental weeds in the Warren Catchments Council area

$22 000


Albany Senior High School Enhancing biodiversity and education by removing woody weeds $31 100

Denmark Weed Action Group Protection of biodiversity in public reserves in the Shire of Denmark $10 000

Flinders Park Primary School Involving schools to remove biological threats to our biodiversity while enhancing education $12 000

Friends of the Porongurup Range Declared and environmental weed control in and around the National Heritage listed Porongurup NP $50 000

Green Skills Denmark biodiversity revegetation and bush restoration eco-links $10 430

Tenterden bushland vegetation and wetland conservation - Gondwana Eco-link $29 120

Lake Muir Denbarker Community Feral Pig Eradication Group

Feral Pig Control – Lake Muir Byenup Ramsar Wetlands, Walpole Wilderness Area and adjoining private property

$25 000

Northern Mallee Declared Species Group

Wild dog management to protect the Esperance farming region $40 000

North Stirlings Pallinup Natural Resources

Linking bush reserves to enhance habitat for malleefowl and other threatened species in Monjebup catchment

$43 100

Oyster Harbour Catchment Group Controlling weedy acacia species in the Mt Barker Kendenup rail reserve $32 900

Targeting riparian habitat in the King River - stage 1 $49 640

Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee Controlling Eastern States wattle infestations in Denbarker $50 000

Dieback survey and hygiene plan implementation for the Mondurup Reserve $19 400

Invasive weed control along the Hay River $10 000

Successful projects - October 2012Northern Agricultural region


Centre for Marine Science and Technology

Developing a photo identification software for individual recognition of Australian Sea Lions through a community based approach $16 864

Chittering Valley LCDC Revegetation of Long Bridge Gully tributary $20 599

Moore Catchment Council Planting feed species for Carnaby's Black Cockatoo in the Moora and Koobabbie Important Bird Areas $45 000

Shire of Chapman Valley

Catchment management of the Chapman River and its tributaries $50 000

Invasive species management and restoration works on the Moresby Ranges $50 000

Weed mapping along the Chapman River $12 000

West Midlands Group Restoring the Warradarge Creek to increase landscape connectivity in the West Midlands region. $49 830


Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group Palomino seasonal damp zone $48 600

Australian Wildlife ConservancyEnsuring the ongoing protection of endangered and threatening species at Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary $48 485

Protection of endangered species at Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary through feral animal control $23 033

Blackadder/Woodbridge Catchment Group Inc North Swan Park species richness $21 500

Bungendore Park Management Committee

Weed control and dieback treatment, Bungendore Park and adjacent land. $18 000

Canning River Regional Park Volunteers

Extension of urban forest weed control $18 220

Cockburn Wetlands Education Centre

Revegetation and habitat rehabilitation within Bibra Lake $24 205

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council

Helping the Helena - water quality monitoring of pollutants for linkages in fish and mussel decline $37 500

Saving a keystone species and the integrity of the ecosystem $50 000

Friends of John Forrest National Park War on Watsonia in John Forrest National Park - protecting the declared rare flora Diplolaena andrewsii $24 700

Friends of Lake Claremont Lake Claremont revegetation extension $50 000

Friends of North Ocean Reef - Iluka Foreshore

Cape Tulip control and eradication in Bush Forever site 325 $13 470

Friends of Paganoni Swamp Control of significant weeds on Paganoni Rd's southern road reserve ecological corridor $17 000

Jane Brook Community Association Jane Brook foreshore reserve rehabilitation $50 000

Jillara Giants Rehabilitation of the upper Lesmurdie Falls $24 275

Perth region continued …Proponent Project title Grant

Mullaloo Beach Community Group Mullaloo dune rehabilitation stage 2 $10 000

Mundaring Primary School Weed control, habitat protection and environmental education program Mardo Reserve and road verge around Mundaring Primary School $23 750

Murdoch Environmental Restoration Group Biodiversity management of Beeliar Regional Park $48 000


Canning River foreshore restoration $50 000

Protecting, maintaining and restoring refuges for aquatic life within the Yule Brook waterway and Bickley reservoir $40 300

Restoring the Bickley Brook foreshore upstream of the Bickley Reservoir $32 900

Shire of Kalamunda Kalamunda Phytophthora dieback interpretation and invasive species control $14 873

Swan Estuary Reserves Action Group Restoration of the ecological integrity of the Marine Park foreshore in Alfred Cove - stage 1 $21 089

Town of Kwinana Detailed Phytophthora dieback assessments and bushland condition mapping in the Town of Kwinana's natural areas $25 646

Western Australian Mountain Bike Association

Removal/realignment of cycle trails from Reservoir protection area and access trails to disease risk area $44 200

Woodvale Waters Land Owners Association Yellagonga Regional Park Woodvale revegetation enhancement $10 000


Broome Bird Observatory Building community involvement in protecting the internationally threatened shorebirds of Roebuck Bay $10 940

Carnarvon Rangelands Biosecurity Association

Control of mesquite and parkinsonia within the Carnarvon Rangelands Biosecurity Association $50 000

Freshwater Fish Group & Fish Health Unit, Murdoch University

Pilbara freshwater fish education project: a field guide and underwater documentary $35 000

Jarlmadangah Burra Aboriginal Corporation

Distribution and abundance survey of Aboriginal medicine tree B acuteangula along the Fitzroy River $50 000

Ord Land and Water

Control and containment of Bellyache Bush on Lake Kununurra $17 000

Demonstrating erosion control on susceptible soils in the East Kimberley $18 000

Mesquite control on Nicholson Station $20 000

Shire of Upper Gascoyne Gascoyne Junction flood recovery $45 000

Track Care WA Inc Protection and preservation of the natural assets in priority locations on the Canning Stock Route $50 000

Upper Gascoyne LCDC Gascoyne River catchment conservation, restoration and rehabilitation $25 000

Useless Loop Community Biosphere Project Group

Conserving threatened wildlife at Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay $34 000

South coast region Proponent Project title Grant

Albany Racing Club Inc Protecting the biodiversity and integrity of the Torndirrup Nature Reserve from environmental weed threats $38 250

City of AlbanyBiodiversity conservation through the stabilisation of 4WD tracks within the Lowlands coastal reserve $26 000

Phase 2: Centennial Park wetland living stream restoration $29 000

Fitzgerald Biosphere Group Celebrating 30 yrs of Landcare in the Fitzgerald Biosphere $33 000

Friends of Fitzgerald River National park

Restoration of the Twertup Field Studies Centre, Fitzgerald River National Park $40 000

Green SkillsForests to Stirling Gondwana Link - from plans to action $30 000

Sydney wattle eradication pilot on Torndirrup Peninsular $50 000

Ravensthorpe Agricultural Initiative Network

Advancing weed control and community involvement at Dunns Swamp $15 980

Shire of Denmark Restoration of Poison Point and access restriction $18 000

Shire of Plantagenet Mt Barker urban wetland restoration $40 000

Wellstead Community Resource Centre

Protecting the integrity of the Wellstead and Pallinup biodiversity from the threat of weed invasion. $43 210


Baldivis Children’s Forest Inc Revegetation of tuart woodlands, feral bee control and learning through community engagement and action. $30 690

Blackwood Basin Group

Managing salinity in the Dinninup catchment $50 000

Qualeup Lakes improvement $29 700

Regenerating the Wattle Creek catchment $50 000

Cape to Cape Catchments Group Development and implementation of the Calgardup Brook action plan $50 000

Dumbleyung LCDC Sustainably managing the catchments surrounding the Dumbleyung Lake $45 000

Friends of Nangip Creek Revegetation of Nangip catchment to reduce threats of salinity in Nangip Reserve $50 000

Geographe Catchment Council

Building community and industry capacity to achieve water quality outcomes $42 700

Busselton urban wetland restoration $29 564

Ecological restoration of Geographe streams $39 250

Gynudup Brook and Tren Creek River Action Plan review and strategic fencing $34 000

Riparian management on recovery streams in the Geographe Catchment $36 000

John Tonkin College Bushrangers Cadet Program

Construction and erection of bat/possum boxes to be used in the JTC LfW site $10 000

Katanning LCDC Combined communities control of creepy WONS $45 000

Landcare SJ Reducing the threats in the nationally significant Brickwood Reserve Byford $10 000

Ngalang Boodja Council Aboriginal Corporation

Conservation and restoration of flora and fauna at the Jack Mears Park spring, Collie $40 500

Serpentine Jarrahdale LCDC Control of blackberry and arum lily, and site revegetation on the Serpentine River $15 400

Shire of Manjimup Mottram St Reserve returning a significant stream and forest reserve towards their natural state - stage 3 $49 200

South west region continued …Proponent Project title Grant

Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale “Healthy Habitats” – a national award-winning Stewardship Program for conservation of biodiversity on private property $49 600

Shire of Waroona Preston Lake trail upgrade $20 000

Shire of West Arthur Riparian protection and revegetation on Omaru and Carragaline properties in the Manywaters catchment $35 000

Southern Dirt A Nobleman's Folly - revegetating and protecting Cockatoo Creek Catchment $15 000

Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone SalinitySync - A sub-catchment approach to planning and implementing large scale saline land rehabilitation $10 000

Warren Catchments Council Maximising environmental value of remnant native vegetation: a blueprint for landholders $50 000

Wellington Mills Community Association

Restoration of Ferguson River vegetation in the locality of Wellington Mills $26 942

West Arthur Declared Species Group Understanding population influences and continuing to control feral pigs in the Shire of West Arthur $25 000


Hyden Progress Association Survey for the endangered red-tailed phascogale in the eastern wheatbelt of WA $40 000

Lake Grace LCDC Jam Patch protection $40 250

Meenar Mortlock Catchment Group Friends of Mortlock and Mortlock South mid-catchment restoration - Duck Pool to Northam $25 000

Quellington Restoration Group Friends of Mortlock and Mortlock South mid-catchment restoration - Duck Pool to Quailing Gully $25 000

Shire of Kellerberrin Communities working together to control feral pests for environmental conservation $25 000

Shire of Kulin Shire of Kulin revegetation and native bushland protection $23 000

Shire of Merredin Revegetation of the Cohn Creek section and exhausted gravel reserves in Merredin $10 000

Shire of Quairading Integrated NRM in the Quairading, Tammin and Cunderdin shires $50 000

Shire of Toodyay Malkup Brook restoration $16 582

Shire of Westonia Westonia vermin control stage 2 $13 086

Wadderin Group Community action to restore biodiversity to the central wheatbelt of WA $29 737

Successful projects - November 2013Northern agricultural region


City of Greater Geraldton Chapman River wildlife corridor community awareness and regeneration experience project $49 875

Moora Catchment Council

Conservation of Candy's Bush Reserve through traditional and ecological knowledge sharing $32 450

Planting feed species for the endangered Carnaby's black-cockatoo in the northern Swan Coastal Plain Important Bird Area $45 000

Reconnecting fragmented Malleefowl (Leipoa Ocellata) habitat near Maya, WA $36 325

Shire of Chapman Valley

Revegetation the Moresby Stage four $50 000

Protecting waterways and remnant vegetation in the Chapman River catchment area $50 000

Invasive species plan implementation in the western third of Chapman Valley $47 000

West Koojan - Gillingarra LCDC Saltland stabilisation using NyPa (salt loving forage grass) to control erosion and improve soil drainage $27 000

West Midlands GroupProtecting on-farm remnant vegetation to enhance wildlife habitat, in the West Midlands area- stage two $50 000

Pest control to protect our sensitive vegetation in the West Midlands $33 165


Active Greening The greening project - pilot project $20 000

Ardross Primary School Parents & Citizens Association Protecting bats in Melville through providing habitats and education $9 000

Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group Palomino seasonal damp land stage two $12 000

Bannister Creek Catchment Group Nicholson Road bushland restoration and weed management (Bushforever site 456) $25 000

Bungendore Park Management Committee Dieback treatment and weed control Bungendore Park and adjacent land $18 000

Canning River Regional Park Volunteers Urban weed control revision $13 250

City of Armadale Cilantro parkway conservation wetland $20 000

City of Belmont Improving connectivity of a regional ecological linkage, Ascot/Rivervale foreshore $13 347

City of Canning Ranford bushland environmental study and rehabilitation, Canning Vale $28 000

City of Kwinana Revegetation and erosion control in the Tuart woodland of Thomas oval bushland, Kwinana $13 367

City of South Perth Expanding the Collier Park golf course sanctuary $24 000

Dawson Park Primary School Dawson Park Primary School threatened ecological species conservation project $10 000

Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group Management of two invasive species (pigs and foxes) in the Ellen Brockman region $46 900

Friends of Bugle Tree Gully Reserve Bugle Tree Gully restoration and community engagement $12 000

Friends of Gidge Reserve Gidge Reserve (2145) and FR Berry Reserve management plans project 2013-14 $15 000

Friends of John Forrest National Park Control of geophyte, woody and herbaceous weeds in the catchment area of Priest Creek $23 150

Friends of Lake Claremont Extension of revegetation to the northern section of Lake Claremont to restore indigenous woodland $28 000

Friends of Mary Carroll Lake Revegetation of the islands at Mary Carroll Lake stage two $11 000


Friends of Piesse Brook Watsonia control at the Piesse Brook Gorge area $17 000

Friends of Pioneer Park Sawyers Road to Lion Street heritage trail project $13 200

Friends of Queens Park Bushland Environmental weed management and revegetation in Queens Park regional open space $35 000

Friends of Talbot Road Nature Reserve Friends of Talbot Road Nature Reserve weed management $11 000

Friends of Upper Lesmurdie Falls Rehabilitation of the upper Lesmurdie Falls $40 000

Friends of Wireless Hill Enhancing biodiversity in urban bushland at Wireless Hill $34 000

Glen Forrest Primary School Rehabilitation and protection of Jarrah forest at Glen Forrest Primary School $17 688

Helena College Junior School The Waabiny project $20 000

JMH Action Group To revegetate an area of unused land on Como Secondary College for biodiversity conservation purposes $30 000

Mt Henry Peninsula Conservation Group Control weeds, feral animals and dieback fungal disease for conservation of flora and fauna biodiversity $14 845

Mullaloo Beach Community Group Mullaloo dune revegetation project year three $10 000

Murdoch Environmental Restoration Group Restoration and habitat protection for endangered flora and fauna $46 000

Nature Reserves Preservation Group Crumpet Creek project, Mundy Regional Park and Rocky Pool creek line, Kalamunda National Park $10 000

North Swan LCDC Bushland protection and restoration in Bullsbrook $10 757

Nursery & Garden Industry of WA Building capacity to respond to biosecurity issues identified- Perth metro phase one $36 450



Restoring the Bickley Brook upstream of the Bickley Reservoir $17 050

Blackberry removal and the restoration of Bull Creek Reserve $36 000

Protection and enhancement of the biodiversity of Booragoon Lake Reserve $28 000

Construction of bird hide and interpretive signage for the Beckenham Open Space $16 570

Canning River foreshore restoration $50 000

Post-fire restoration in the Canning River Regional Park $50 000

Swan Estuary Reserves Action Group Conservation and restoration of remnant vegetation sites in Bush Forever Site 331 $26 600

Wilson Wetland Action Group

Fern Road East revegetation $20 000

Mills Street Stream- weed management in revegetated area $10 500

Castledare revegetation and Wilson living stream $20 000

Kent Street conservation loop $20 000

Woodvale Water Land Owners Association Yellagonga Regional Park Woodvale revegetation enhancement project (Stage two) $25 000


Carnarvon Rangelands Biosecurity Association

Control of significant outlier infestations of strategically important WoNS weeds $47 000

Carnarvon WoNS control partnership 2014 $50 000

Cactus control Marrilla (project one); cactus control Mardathuna (project two) $20 000

Central Desert Native Title Services Protecting the biodiversity values of Windich Springs and its catchment through collaborative land management on the Canning Stock Route $45 400

ECOCEAN Reviewing the impact of tourism on the whale shark population off the Ningaloo coast $30 000

Goldfields Land and Sea Council Weed management in the Great Western Woodlands $25 000

Goldfields Nullarbor Rangelands Biosecurity Association Mertondale / Menzies invasive cactus roundup $40 000

Nicholson Range Management Committee Protecting the ecologically significant Nicholson Range in the Murchison from total grazing pressure $50 000

Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee

Tackling invasive WoNS in the Ashburton catchment $50 000

Tackling weeds on the Yannarie River $48 250

Rangelands Fibre and Produce Association Control of significant outlier infestations of strategically important WONs weeds $40 000

Southern Gascoyne Group Improving condition and reducing rainfall run off from stations surrounding the Shark Bay World Heritage Area $45 500

Track Care WA Bringing life back to Katjarra $50 000

Upper Gascoyne LCDC Upper Gascoyne erosion and sediment control demonstration $37 500


Albany Community Environment Centre Yakamia Creek Community weed control and revegetation project $10 020

Banjelungup Aboriginal Corporation Biodiversity planting to protect and connect Bitter Water Creeks/wetlands in the Fitzgerald $22 000

Denmark Weed Action Group Protection of biodiversity in public reserves in the Shire of Denmark by on-ground action and community education $15 000

Flinders Park Primary School Bush tucker trail $13 900

Friends of the Porongurup Range Declared and environmental weed control in the national heritage listed Porongurup National Park $50 000

Gondwana Link Ltd Completing the circle of adaptive management across Gondwana Link $30 000

Green SkillsSenecio glastifloius eradication $38 000

Forests to Stirling Gondwana Link: from plans to action $30 000

King River Weed Control and River Restoration Group King River and Willyung Creek weed control and riparian restoration project $28 000

Moolyall Woodenup Catchment Group Protection and extension of bushland corridors in the Moolyall Woodenup Catchment $50 000

North Stirlings Pallinup Natural Resources Protecting and linking on farm corridors to existing remnant vegetation in north east Ongerup $25 000

Wellstead Community Resource Centre Strategic control and community education of Sydney golden wattle control in Wellstead $50 000

Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee

Eastern States Wattle control in Denbarker phase two $13 000

Implementing the management plan for Mondurup Reserve $12 000

Restoring the Govie Dam Reserve $13 000

Eastern States Wattle control in Redmond $18 000


Blackwood Basin Group On-ground Salinity Management Work for the Gnowangerup/Scott's Brook $25 000

Bush Heritage Australia Kojonup Reserve Biodiversity Enhancement $10 000

Capel LCDC Arum Lily eradication Capel Tuart forests at Ludlow and Mininup stage two $20 000

Darling Downs Residents Association Clean up and revegetation of Darling Downs wetlands $11 140

Dumbleyung LCDC Continuing to sustainably manage catchments surrounding Dumbleyung Lake $35 000

Freshwater Fish Group & Fish Health Unit, Murdoch Uni Conserving the unique aestivating freshwater fishes in the wetlands of the south-coast of WA $41 350

Geographe Catchment Council Reducing nutrients leaving priority urban and peri-urban areas of the Vasse-Wonnerup catchment $40 000

Western ringtail possums in our schools and community $30 000

Geographe Primary School Geographe Primary School - outdoor classroom $17 500

Jarrahdale Heritage Society Gooralong Brook restoration, Jarrahdale $15 000

Katanning LCDC

Native vegetation for the Carrolup $17 000

Attacking Badgebups salinity $33 000

Environmental care on the eastern flats $22 000

Supporting enthusiastic farmers, Katanning $5 000

Bridal creeper and WoNS wars - spreading the word $37 000

Landcare SJ Weed control for improving the health and resilience of threatened ecological communities in Serpentine Jarrahdale and north Murray $30 000

South west region continued…Proponent Project title Grant

Margaret River Off Road Cycling Association

Mountain bike facility creation to reduce impact on threatened ecological communities $40 000

Environmental assessment of trails in national park with surrounding threatened ecological communities $40 000

Ngalang Boodja Council Aboriginal Corporation Restoration of native vegetation in public areas through partnerships and plant salvage $42 100

Origins Centre Weed control, reclamation and revegetation of community native remnant bushland $9 000

Serpentine Jarrahdale LCDC Feral animal control for increasing biodiversity on agricultural land in the coastal Peel-Harvey catchment $40 000

Shire of Serpentine JarrahdaleHealthy habitats stage three $30 000

Ephemeral wetland construction in Serpentine National Park $38 000

Southern DIRTCommunity awareness and control of Bridal creeper in the Kojonup Shire $25 000

Extending on landcare activities in the Kojonup Shire $24 000

Warren Catchments Council Dung beetles address soil fertility and environmental health issues $26 482

Freshwater Fish Group; Fish Health Unit; Estuarine Research Group; Murdoch University

Movement and abundance of key fishes in the Vasse-Wonnerup estuary following a substantial fish kill $50 000

Wheatbelt region Proponent Project title Grant

Avondale Farm Project Association Avondale flora and fauna plan implementation stage two $14 000

Avongro Wheatbelt Tree Cropping Revegetating saltland with selected Casuarina obesa & nitrogen fixing Frankia: freer nutrients, more pasture $25 000

Men of the Trees Revegetation of the east Beverly region WA $30 000

Millennium Kids A classroom without walls $20 000

Shire of Koorda Feral pest eradication with use of 1080 and monitoring $24 450

Shire of Mt Marshall Using biodiversity corridors to augment and connect existing remnant vegetation in Mt Marshall $25 000

Shire of Trayning Protecting Trayning biodiversity $19 580

Shire of Westonia Sandford rocks bird-hide $29 500

Shire of York Invasive species control in Beverley, Brookton, York $11 000

Solomon Yulgan Catchment Group Solomon Yulgan catchment Landcare revegetation project 2013-14 $18 000

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