Community & Business
27 July, 2022
Boost for ‘green’ community projects
COMMUNITY groups across the region will have the opportunity to expand on their conservation projects with round six of Community Sustainability Action Grants being allocated.
COMMUNITY groups across the region will have the opportunity to expand on their conservation projects with round six of Community Sustainability Action Grants being allocated.
The grants were awarded to “passionate guardians of Queensland’s National Parks and forests”, with volunteer groups set to received $700,000 to boost their green projects.
Funding for revegetation was common amongst the recipients, with Daintree Life, Tolga Bat Rescue and Research Inc receiving $20,000 to revegetate parts of the Daintree National Park by undertaking weed control and tree planting.
To help in the recovery of Mabi Rainforests in the region, Barron River Catchment Management Association Inc received $20,000 to weed and restore 0.5 hectares of land to increase Mabo ecological habitat.
A total of $13,500 has been dedicated to help search for evidence of koalas on the Tablelands, conducted by the Tree-Kangaroo and Mammal Group Inc, as well as $22,792 to help increase habitats.
BirdLife Australia will use $10,747 to re-establishing bird monitoring within the Wooroonooran National Park by using the Birdata app to undertake data capture, storage and analysis.
A total of $18,000 will go towards quoll conservation, with the Australian Quoll Conservancy to conduct surveys over the next three years to monitor spotted-tailed quolls in the region.
Recipients of all rounds of this grant can be found on https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/sustainability-action-grants/
