Caring for our Country

Funded projects

Caring for our Country funding announced

Business plan 2009-10 successful projects base-level funding

The table below lists the base level funding for regional NRM organisations within each state. Each state and territory also received funding through the Business plan 2009-10 competitive process.

Base-level Caring for our Country funding for regional NRM organisations - Tasmania
Tasmania
Region / NRM organisation Project description Funding approved
from July 2009
Cradle Coast NRM

The Cradle Coast NRM proposal will:

  • Undertake extension activities to promote the adoption of sustainable farming practices;
  • Effectively target rehabilitation and protection works to improve landscape connectivity and resilience, and to protect fragile coasts;
  • Coordinate a regional response to reduce the impact of weeds of national significance on natural assets;
  • Address threats to the ecological character of the Ramsar site Lavinia State Reserve;
  • Create opportunities for community volunteers to participate in NRM including monitoring, rehabilitation, conservation, training, cultural awareness and education activities, and;
  • Engage with Aboriginal communities to incorporate into NRM projects and practices.
 $4,423,200
(over 4 years)
NRM North

The focus of this proposal is to provide support to the community, empower local NRM groups, substantially reduce threats to internationally significant wetlands, reduce threats to and enhance habitats of threatened species and ecosystems and farmers with improved skills and knowledge in NRM. This proposal builds on existing successful programs that have been developed following extensive community consultation. Specifically this proposal will:

  • Mitigate invasive species threats to sites of international significance including: Floodplain Lower Ringarooma River, Logans Lagoon, Jocks Lagoon and Little Waterhouse Lake Ramsar wetlands as identified in relevant Ecological Character Descriptions and management plans. Activities will focus on threats to the Ramsar wetlands;
  • Mitigate key threats to the threatened community Eucalyptus ovata - Callitris oblonga Forest of which only 450 hectares remain within the NRM North region;
  • Implement the Giant Freshwater Crayfish (Astocopsis gouldi) recovery plan targeting rivers where localised extinctions and large decline in numbers have occurred - Boobyalla, Pipers, Ringarooma, Little and Great Forester Rivers.
  • Increase community knowledge and skills through NRM support that will allow the community to access free information readily and also training local groups in a variety of disciplines to enhance their capacity to be involved in natural resource management;
  • Ensure NRM North provides support for community groups and individuals to undertake local projects.
 $4,756,000
(over 4 years)
NRM South NRM South will deliver targeted activities that will achieve significant weed reduction, protection of Ramsar wetlands and coastal hotspots, reduced impact of rabbits on threatened flora, increase of native habitat for threatened ecological communities, and improvement in land management practices, in the priority sub-regions: Upper-Derwent/Highland Lakes; Huon/D'Entrecasteaux; Swan Apsley/Little Swanport; Tasman Peninsula/Sorell. The investment package also focuses on community-engagement, communications, knowledge-management and capacity building. Foundational support provided to regional stakeholders by building and disseminating NRM knowledge, data and information, raising awareness and building capacity will achieve community & Aboriginal engagement targets, coastal community engagement and improving land management practices targets through a comprehensive program designed to invigorate, connect, empower and support NRM practitioners, groups and individuals. $4,423,200
(over 4 years)
Total for Tasmania $13,602,400