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$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

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