
$1.185million WIRES Landcare Australia Wildlife Relief and Recovery Grants
The Landcare Australia and WIRES partnership provided grants to support landcare groups and other community-led groups with funding for an immediate response to the bushfires in 2019/2020 to support recovery and resilience building projects for wildlife habitat across Australia.
The successful recipients are listed below.
State | Group | Project Name |
ACT | Landcare ACT | Wildlife recovery in the ACT |
NSW | Angourie Community Coastcare | Angourie-Wooloweyah Environmental Restoration |
NSW | Back to Country | Numeralla wildlife refuge restoration |
NSW | Bangalow Koalas INC. | Bangalow Koalas Community Wildlife Corridor |
NSW | Border Ranges Richmond Valley Landcare Network | Supporting recovery of arboreal mammals in fire affected Rappville and surrounds |
NSW | Brunswick Valley Landcare Inc | Wildlife Safe Havens |
NSW | Condobolin & Districts Landcare Management Committee Inc | Tree and Shrub Planting |
NSW | Envite | Land for Wildlife bushfire corridor recovery |
NSW | Granite Borders Landcare Committee Incorporated | Habitat Restoration – Quoll Headquarters Conservation Area |
NSW | Gunning District Landcare | Mates of the Mundoonen: A citizen science project working to protect the wildlife that call the Mundoonen home. |
NSW | Hastings Landcare Incorporated | Post Fire Koala Habitat Recovery Program-Hastings Region |
NSW | Hunter Region Landcare Network | Wildlife Corridors on Farms |
NSW | Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance inc | Friends of Wonga Forest improving wildlife refuges in the Jaliigirr Landscape |
NSW | Landcare Illawarra | Seedbank plantings |
NSW | Lower Paterson River Landcare | Lower Paterson River Riparian Habitat Restoration Project. Stage 1. |
NSW | Macleay Landcare Network | Wildlife habitat recovery in the Macleay |
NSW | Manning Landcare Inc | Lessons from Rumba Dump – Reclaiming Habitat & Biodiversity in Killabakh, NSW. |
NSW | Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc | Shelter-belts – Environmental Connectivity |
NSW | Nangandie Pastoral Company | Greenhatch Creek – Shelter Belt Enhancement & Establishing Corridors to Remnant White Box Vegetation – Stage 1 |
NSW | Nature Conservation Council of NSW | Motherland, Mt Hyland Wildlife Recovery |
NSW | Peelwood Limerick Tuena Landcare Group | Restore dieback habitat and secure wildlife refuge points |
NSW | Rainforest 4 Foundation Ltd | Rainforest Rangers: Bushfires, Rainforests, and Recovery |
NSW | Rollands Plains Landcare | Riparian habitat protection plus shade and habitat trees on Clarefield |
NSW | Science for Wildlife | Engaging the community for targeted koala conservation after fire |
NSW | Shoalhaven Landcare Association Inc | Assisting Habitat Restoration Post-Fire across the Shoalhaven |
NSW | Tweed Landcare Inc | Terragon bushfire relief and recovery project |
NSW | Upper Mooki Landcare Inc. | Nombi Creek – Garrawilla Creek Riparian Restoration |
NSW | Upper Spring Creek Landcare Incorporated | Support and Survival – Western Sydney Dry Rainforest Habitat |
NSW | Weddin Landcare Steering Committee Incorporated | Habitat Restoration at Vaughn’s Dam Reserve |
NSW | Wollombi Valley Landcare Group Inc | Wollombi Area Post Fire Recovery Project |
QLD | Beechmont District Landcare Association | Riparian Refuge-Headwaters Back Creek (BC) Akoonah Timbarra Reserve (ATR) |
QLD | Bunya Bunya Country Aboriginal Corporation | Traditional Owners Caring for Peregian wildlife & habitat bushfires effected conservation areas (Sunshine Coast) |
QLD | Friends of Land for Wildlife Toowoomba Region Inc | High Country Hamlets – Casuarinas for Cockies |
QLD | Noosa & District Landcare Group Inc | Nest Boxes for Fire Affected Wildlife in the Noosa and Cooloola Region. |
QLD | Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre P&C | Linking Springbrook National Park and Lamington National Park |
QLD | Queensland Trust for Nature | Water and homes for wildlife: Drought proofing Koala Crossing |
QLD | The Scout Association of Australia – Queensland Branch – Albany Creek Scout Group | Habitat Heroes – Community Environmental Project |
SA | Arid Recovery | Rebuilding after drought – restoring populations of endangered arid zone species |
SA | Coomandook Agricultural Bureau | Recovering from the Carcuma & Coonaplyn Bushfires – the forgotten fires |
SA | Eco – Action Kangaroo Island | Eco Action after the Fires – Kangaroo Island Wildlife Recovery project |
SA | Friends of Black Hill & Morialta Inc | Morialta threatened species habitat protection |
SA | Friends of Charleston Conservation Park | Bring Back the Banksias! |
SA | Friends of Coorong National Park | Rehabilitation of critical Malleefowl habitat at Bunbury Conservation Park, SA. |
SA | Goolwa to Wellington Local Action Planning Association | Restoring and creating habitat in the Cudlee Creek fire zone |
SA | Kangaroo Island Conservation Landowners Association | Capacity building in nature conservation skills for Kangaroo Island landholders |
SA | Kangaroo Island Wildlife Network | Monitoring bats and pygmy-possums during bushfire recovery on Kangaroo Island |
SA | Mid Murray Landcare SA | Nectar Plants and Nest Boxes |
SA | Mid Torrens Catchment Group | Cudlee Creek Bushfire Recovery 2020 |
SA | Trees For Life Inc | Recovering the Land We Love |
SA | Upper River Torrens Landcare Group | Restoring habitat in the Adelaide Hills |
TAS | Tasmanian Land Conservancy | Building community and landscape resilience in the Central Highlands: reducing key threats post-bushfire. |
VIC | Bass Coast Landcare Network | From blaze to biodiversity – restoration of the Grantville Nature Conservation Reserve |
VIC | East Gippsland Landcare Network | Assessing landscape-scale impacts of bushfires on platypus using environmental DNA and citizen scientists. |
VIC | Far East Victoria Landcare Inc | Local Communities monitoring wildlife response to fire recovery in East Gippsland stage 1. |
VIC | Friends of the Upper Nicholson Catchment Inc (FUNCi) | Friend or feral: a FUNCi foray |
VIC | Greta Valley Landcare Group | Enhancing habitat on Fifteen Mile Creek |
VIC | Habitat Restoration Fund | Genoa Catchment Rehabilitation Project |
VIC | River-Run Tree Group Inc | Restoring, Protecting and Sustaining biodiversity and habitats at Thwarts Hill. |
VIC | Upper Loddon & Avoca Landcare Network | Providing habitat in the face of climate change. |
VIC | Upper Murray Landcare Network | Bushfire recovery of land, water and vegetation in the Upper Murray |
VIC | Victorian National Parks Association | Community monitoring wildlife recovery after bushfire in Eastern Victoria |
VIC | Yarram Yarram Landcare Network | Holey Plains State Park Bushfire Recovery: Creating New Habitat on Farmland |
WA | Friends of the Western Ground Parrot Inc | Searching for Western Ground Parrots (Kyloring)- retrieving critical data |
WA | Leschenault Catchment Council Inc | Collie River Eaton Possum Sanctuary |