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.
| Victoria | ||
|---|---|---|
| Region / NRM organisation | Project description | Funding approved from July 2009 |
| Corangamite CMA | The investment proposal is balanced across biodiversity conservation and sustainable production, encapsulating the region's key natural assets including critical aquatic and coastal ecosystems (including Ramsar areas) and the Victorian Volcanic Plains. This proposal represents a targeted approach to landscape scale change, addressing key coastal, wetland and woodland assets, and supporting sustainable land management practices. The proposal addresses the protection of the Western District Lakes Ramsar site to enhance its value; increasing the National Reserve through the protection of the Victorian Volcanic Plan and the Warnambool Plain bioregions; and increasing sustainable farm practices by supporting farmers to improve soil management practices. | $5,530,000 (over 2 years) |
| East Gippsland CMA | This package includes two projects that focus largely on weed control to be undertaken over the next two years to protect biodiversity assets in the East Gippsland region (specifically concerning biodiversity protection in far East Gippsland, and the Eastern Highlands (Alpine National Park). These projects are:Protecting the Best (Far East Gippsland). This project will address Willow Bitou Bush and Blackberry (WoNS) management in river systems. Other WoNS weed control activities will focus on Blackberry, Bitou Bush and Willow control and follow up revegetation in the Wallageraugh River catchment, Genoa River and lower Snowy High Conservation Value Aquatic Ecosystem and Bitou bush/Boneseed coastal area; and in the Highlands Down (Eastern Highlands). This project will address priority WoNS weed control and riparian restoration in the priority Mitchell and Wonnangatta Rivers systems (HCVAE). Weed control activities will focus on Blackberry, Cape Broom, St Johns Wort, Hawthorn and Briar Rose control and Willow control. | $2,222,500 |
| Glenelg Hopkins | The Glenelg Hopkins CMA proposal focuses on the Victorian Volcanic Plains, the Glenelg Hopkins catchment's woodlands and wetlands, the Lower Glenelg HCVAE and coastal areas threatened by agricultural pressure including soil acidification, habitat loss including threatened EPBC listed species, weed invasion and rabbits. The proposal also includes the application of indigenous ecological knowledge combined with proven NRM methods. | $6,962,200 (over 4 years) |
| Goulburn Broken CMA | The package will deliver on-ground works and community engagement focused on the Box Gum Grassy Woodland and Buloke Woodlands, improving their management, expanding permanent protection of threatened ecological communities and associated threatened species, and tackling pest plant and animal control. | $2,020,000 (over 1 year) |
| Mallee CMA | The Mallee CMA proposal addresses priority assets including threatened Buloke woodlands, Ramsar wetlands and agricultural soils. The proposal balances sustainable productive farming practices and the ongoing protection and enhancement of the region's ecological assets. It will deliver significant landscape scale change through four key program areas and supported by an integrated approach to Indigenous and community engagement. Key outcomes of the proposal include a reduction in the risk and incidence of soil erosion events, the protection of priority Buloke Woodland and addressing invasive species threats impacting on areas of high environmental value such as Buloke woodlands and Ramsar-listed wetlands. These major achievements will be supported by increases to volunteer involvement in managing natural resources; improved land-management practices by organisations and individuals; and the building of stronger partnerships with Indigenous communities. | $7,892,769 (over 4 years) |
| North Central CMA | The NCCMA will deliver a number of projects that address of suit of targets in the region. The Northern Plains Conservation project will address critical threats to the native habitat. The Connecting Country project will increase the area of native habitat and vegetation that is managed to reduce critical threats to biodiversity including reducing the impact of rabbits and weeds of national significance in the priority EPBC listed White-Box Yellow-Box community. The Kooyoora Connections project will increase the area of native habitat and vegetation that is managed to reduce critical threats to biodiversity and improve condition and connectivity in landscapes with priority endangered Buloke woodlands of the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression Biroregions and the critically endangered White Box-Yellow Box Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and derived Native Grassland. The project also includes suppressing rabbit populations to protect the Malleefowl and Spiny Rice-flower (EPBC). | $1,001,866 (over 1 year) |
| North East CMA | The proposal outlines a balance across both biodiversity conservation and sustainable production Caring for our Country targets, encapsulating the region's key natural assets including threatened ecological communities and critical aquatic ecosystems. The proposal involves reducing critical threats to the Box Gum Grassy Woodland on the Murray plains, encouraging long-term practice change by landholders in managing soils and facilitating the engagement of community groups in natural resource management. | $6,196,000 (over 4 years) |
| Port Phillip Westernport CMA | This package will deliver:
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$925,000 (over 1 year) |
| West Gippsland CMA | This package includes protection of grassy woodlands on the lower Latrobe River floodplain; biodiversity protection of the Eastern Highlands by reducing populations and potential spread of high threat weeds; the protection of the Corner Inlet Ramsar site and Coastal Hotspot through improved water quality and land management practices across the catchment; and the protection of priority woodlands and in the Macalister landscape zone. | $2,935,000 (over 2 years) |
| Wimmera CMA | The Wimmera CMA proposal includes a tender approach (market based instrument) to address threatened species and threatened ecological communities within the Buloke Woodlands; protection of existing vegetation by landholders through controlling grazing, planting buffer strips and improving connectivity; rabbit control at the Ramsar listed Lake Albacutya and inclusion of indigenous engagement; and reducing the impact of weeds on parts of the Wimmera River, Lake Hindmarsh, and Lake Albacutya. | $2,304,000 (over 1 year) |
| Total for Victoria | $37,989,335 | |