Yowrie Valley Landcare Group

This project will improve the production potential and long term sustainability of key farms within the Yowrie Valley by addressing key natural resource management issues and further educating and engaging the local community in holistic farm management and sustainable land use.

Dairy Advancement Group

This project will address concerns about the impacts of climate change on the local dairy industry and on-farm environmental management. The project will result in improved business sustainability for dairy farms in a changing environment through reviewing cost effectiveness and technical completeness of current natural resource management practices innovative practice changes.

Ricegrowers Association of Australia

This project focuses on the greenhouse pathway of the Australian rice industry's Environmental Champions Program (ECP), incorporating issues around climate change. The project aims to reduce on-farm emissions and increase efficiency through promoting practices, techniques and technologies.

Horticulture Australia Limited

This project will undertake a review of technical knowledge of the environmental impact of Australian horticulture. This will help the national horticulture industry understand priorities for action and better evaluate the potential environmental benefits to be generated by changes in on-farm management.

Queensland Fruit & Vegetable Growers

This project will implement Integrated Management Practices (IMPs) on land that is in transition from one type of industry to another to minimise the impact of water, nutrient, and pest management practices from the current crop type to the next crop.

Nursery & Garden Industry Queensland Industrial Union of Employers

This project will develop guides to key invasive plant species in three climatic zones in Queensland: the Wet Tropics, Dry Tropics and Sub-Tropical. The project will increase the skills, knowledge and engagement of communities, reducing the impact of invasive plants.

SEQ Catchments Ltd

This project will increase the uptake of sustainable farm practices though demonstrating the opportunities and benefits of integrating tree growing into existing extensive and intensive farm enterprises. The project will increase the skills of landholders in restoring productive capacity, improving water quality nutrient use efficiency, improving crop, animal and mixed production to deliver integrated production and resource management outcomes, improving soil health and minimising impacts of salinity.

Agforce Queensland Industrial Union of Employers

This project will assist primary producers in understanding their carbon footprint. The project will develop and deliver the best methods to assist broad acre grazing, cropping and horticultural producers throughout Queensland to understand what 'carbon' actually means to them at a property level. It will then assist a proportion of these producers to develop property level sustainable farm practice 'carbon' goals, priorities and actions to be implemented.

Maroochy Land Care Group Inc

This project will undertake monitored planting trials of selected stock of Pongamia pinnata on degraded ex-cane land on the Maroochy River floodplains as part of viable integrated farming systems that include innovative low cost revegetation techniques.

Agforce Queensland Industrial Union of Employers

This project will evaluate available spatial information to assist primary producers to understand what is available and how it can be used for management outcomes. The project will also develop a workshop and information pack formbroad acre grazing and cropping industry producers; assist 500 producers to identify and quantify spatial information available for their property; assist 100 producers to develop sustainable farm practice goals, priorities and actions to be achieved over the next 5 years; and evaluate how to get data and information to the largest possible number of producers throughout Queensland.

North East Downs Landcare Group Inc.

This project will introduce and promote innovative management practices to improve management of farm greenhouse gas emissions, improve nutrient use efficiency and improve soil health. Management practices will include pasture cropping, soil biological enhancement and high-pressure low-impact grazing technologies.

Macintyre Brook Irrigators Association Incorporated

This project will build the capacity of landholders and the irrigation industry in the Macintyre Brook catchment to identify, assess and manage the on-farm natural resource base to ensure the maintenance and enhancement of productive landscapes and environmental services. This project is focused on multi-scale sustainability systems (on-farm and catchment wide) using the NRM regional standards and indicators to demonstrate sustainable food, fibre and ecosystem service delivery and link into regional, state, industry and national sustainability reporting systems.

Fitzroy Basin Association Inc.

This project will assist with the ongoing delivery of grains best management practices in central Queensland and encourage the adoption of improved practices, develop a training package to assist staff in partner organisations deliver components of the program and to develop additional modules for future delivery. This project will also lay the foundation for investment in improving grains industry practices in the Great Barrier Reef catchments. This project will accelerate the uptake of sustainable farm practices through further development and delivery of the Grains BMP program and will contribute to improvement in community skills, knowledge and engagement by helping grain growers access training and skills development to assist them adopt best management practices.

Burdekin Bowen Integrated Floodplain Management Advisory Committee Inc

This project aims to improve the capacity of farmers in the Lower Burdekin and Bowen areas to identify and adopt best farm management practices to lessen the impact on the adjacent Great Barrier Reef and Ramsar wetlands in Bowling Green Bay from nutrient, sediment, and pesticide pollution. This will be achieved by improving understanding and awareness of water quality and soil health issues through on-farm monitoring.

Wild Dog Management Groups

This project will improve private landholder's knowledge and skills and the community's capacity to apply best practice to the management of wild dogs through piloting new initiatives and enhancing existing management activities. It will address the local needs and challenges of individual landholders and reflect the changing nature of their communities.

Lake Wellington Landcare Network

The project will build the capacity of the community to make more sustainable decisions into the future. The project will involve nine farms from across the Lake Wellington Landcare Network as demonstration farms. The community will be involved through participating in field days, resulting in a more skilled, knowledgeable and educated community in terms of sustainable farming options.

Agribusiness Gippsland Inc

This project will gather information on the baseline soil carbon levels under different land management types across East Gippsland. There will be 11 to 15 trial pits established and 1000 samples will be tested.

William Grant

The project will promote the use of quality compost products in viticulture, horticulture and broadacre agriculture in central Victoria to improve soil health.

Frank Gigliotti

This project aims to develop an effective, safe and humane method of rabbit fumigation utilising currently registered phosphide tablets.

Frank Gigliotti

This project will develop an innovative technology for fox control that is suitable for regional and remote Australia.

Curtin University of Technology

This project will strengthen and improve enterprise and environmental performance of Western Australia's food and fibre industries through an integrated systems-based approach between industries and regions, which encourages the broader adoption and diffusion of sustainable practices.

Wheatbelt East Regional Organisation of Councils (Weroc)

This project will engage landholders to establish tree crops and perennial pasture systems on previously salt affected, unproductive lands in the North East and Eastern Wheatbelt. This will increase the diversity of farming systems and techniques and improve sustainability.

Treenomics

The aim of this project is to provide an analytical framework for promoting stakeholder and community engagement in delivering sustainable farming and economically-efficient salinity management in the Upper Denmark River catchment.

WA Vegetable Growers Association Inc

This project will demonstrate and communicate sustainable farm practices and measure performance in terms of productivity and environmental impact. New innovations will result in a reduction in fertiliser applications, an increase in soil organic carbon and a reduced reliance on pesticides.

Northern Territory Cattleman's Association

This project will identify the major natural resource management issues and impacts that will face the pastoral lands for future generations. It will develop agreed goals and priorities in consultation with relevant stakeholders.

Northern Territory Cattleman's Association

The project aims to develop and communicate solutions to fire and feral animal management, the identification of sustainable stocking rates, re-establishment of native floodplain pasture species and the management and containment of introduced floodplain pasture species in areas under a continuing strategic mimosa management program.

Northern Territory of Australia

Through case studies of paddocks and reviews of other grazing trials on different land types and with different grazing systems, this project will provide information on grazing levels for different pastoral land types across the NT. This will allow land managers to adopt sustainable stocking rates that will maximise production and environmental outcomes.

Barkly Landcare and Conservation Association Inc

This project will investigate and develop asset management decision support tools for semi-arid pastoral production landscapes. The project will also contribute to the uptake of sustainable production practices and to the growth in capacity of Barkly pastoral land managers to deliver productive services while maintaining, protecting and enhancing high-value natural assets.

L.R Young & R.J Young

The project aims to restore the soil biology across 900 hectares of grazing land in three regions of Tasmania by developing a process and determining application rates that are optimum to achieve results.

RDS Partners Pty Ltd

This project aims to engage Tasmanian vegetable growers in the adoption of sustainable farm water planning, monitoring and management. One focus of the water management plan is to minimise the impact of irrigated crop production on the environment and the farms natural resources.

Tasmanian Land & Water Professionals Pty Ltd

This project will broadening baseline knowledge, facilitate increased awareness and skills, and implement effective planning frameworks to control serrated tussock in a strategic,cooperative and integrated manner to develop greater landscape and pasture resilience to weed invasion in a changing climate.

Natural Resource Planning Pty Ltd

The purpose of the project is to develop and demonstrate the application of landscape ecology principles to prioritising property management actions in the South East and Northern Midlands bioregions of Tasmania.

Mackillop Farm Management Group Inc

This project will increase the awareness and adoption of precision agriculture (PA) techniques in the south-east South Australia by demonstrating how PA can be best utilised to increase long-term farm sustainability. The project will demonstrate the use of spatial measurement techniques to identify variations in land capabilities and implementing changes to farm management decisions based on these results.

Queensland Dairyfarmers' Organisation Limited

This project will develop and deliver a 'Sustainable Milk Production Model' for the Northern Dairy Industry to facilitate a more sustainable, resilient and productive dairy farming industry in northern New South Wales and Queensland. The model will provide a decision support tool for dairy farmers and other industry stakeholders to analyse farm management systems and risk scenarios, allowing industry to respond to emerging environmental threats to productivity and natural resource condition.

Australian Processing Tomato Research Council Inc

This project will utilise innovative farming practices to improve processing tomato productivity and sustainability by improving nutrient use efficiency, improving soil health and assisting in reducing farm greenhouse gas emissions.

Snowy River Interstate Landcare Committee Inc.

This project protects highly productive agricultural land and valuable temperate native grasslands from the continuing and increasing threat of invasion by serrated tussock. This invasive weed is unpalatable for grazing animals and poses an ever increasing threat to agricultural landscapes, grazing properties and pastures, including native grasslands.

Winemakers' Federation of Australia Inc.

Building on the outcomes of Australian Wine Industry Stewardship (AWIS) program, this project will elevate AWIS to an independently certified environmental assurance scheme. This proposal will trial a number of rollout scenarios for the AWIS environmental assurance scheme to reflect the diversity of the Australian wine industry.

Rural Directions Trust

This project aims to identify and document practical and adoptable on-property innovations for the sheep industry to improve natural resource management and/or production outcomes in the arid zone and rangeland. The innovations will be identified through group-based on-property sessions.

Australian Pork Limited

This project will assist piggery farmers to formulate nutrient management plans and implement irrigation and run-off management systems to maximise sustainability and productivity.

Roper River Landcare Group Inc

This project will survey, monitor, evaluate and report on the present distribution of Rubber Vine and confirm the presence or absence in the Northern Territory.

Horticulture Australia Limited

The purpose of this project is to develop a sustainable practice - recognition framework for Australian horticulture. The benefits of a recognition framewok include simplification of reporting systems for horticultural producers and processors, and the promotion of sustainable management practices within Australian horticultural industries.

Kiewa Catchment Landcare Group

This project will increase landholders' knowledge and use of improved management practices to improve soil health and reduce water quality impacts from livestock, throughout the North East of Victoria and the Corowa Shire in New South Wales. The project will use dung beetles as the focus species to promote and encourage participation in integrated property management planning, livestock, chemical and pasture management training.

Meat & Livestock Australia Limited

This project aims to increase adoption rates of innovative best-practice grazing management by beef producers throughout Queensland, Northern Territory and the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. These practices will benefit up to 3 million square km of northern Australia by identifying cost-effective solutions for restoring and maintaining productive capacity, improving water quality and soil health, improving risk management and delivering economic benefits.

Grains Research and Development Corporation

This project will result in an enhanced industry reporting database which will provide future projects in broadacre industries with confidence in benchmarking, reporting practice change and program impact. The project will engage and enhance the skills and capacity of key regional project participants (including mixed farmers, farming systems practitioners and regional natural resource management groups) in program design and evaluation by jointly developing three regional project specifications based on a program logic framework.

Oceanwatch Australia Ltd

This project will engage with commercial seafood providers, managers, researchers and NRM stakeholders to reduce bycatch and encourage environmental best practice in their operations and activities.

Avongro Wheatbelt Tree Cropping Incorporated

This project will assist land managers to develop integrated, sustainable production systems that are more resilient to climate variability and change. The project will collate existing, and generate new, spatial information detailing productivity and profitability of these integrated production systems and their on and off-farm natural resource management benefits.

Lachlan Aboriginal Natural Resource Management Corporation

This project will restore the riparian habitat along the Lachlan River from Condobolin to Forbes through the removal of willows, revegetation with native species and fencing to restrict livestock access.

Lachlan Catchment Management Authority

This project will assist Rural Lands Protection Boards (RLPBs) to continue to manage Travelling Stock Reserves for biodiversity outcomes. Through a partnership between the Lachlan CMA, the Grassy Box Woodland Conservation Management Network (GBWCMN) and the RLPBs, this project will complete the identification, assessment and priortisation of Travelling Stock Reserves with conservation values in the Lachlan catchment.

Lord Howe Island Board

This project will protect the unique terrestrial ecology of Lord Howe Island through the implementation of the Weed Management Strategy, resulting in the eradication of key invasive weeds.

Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority

This collaborative program between two NSW coastal Catchment Management Authorities, the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Department of Lands, ornithological community groups, OceanWatch, oyster farmers and private landholders will consolidate existing projects and create new initiatives to protect seabirds, migratory waders and threatened breeding shorebirds and their sensitive fringe habitats.

Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority

This proposal will deliver comprehensive and scientifically rigorous information on fish movements and migrations in the Clarence and Shoalhaven River systems in coastal NSW, including the endangered Eastern Freshwater Cod and the iconic recreational sportfish Australian Bass. The project builds upon and integrates two existing multi-agency partnership projects.

Murray Catchment Management Authority

This project aims to protect and enhance the condition and connectivity of the habitat of three threatened species in the upper Murray catchment including the Booroolong frog (Litoria booroolongensis), the Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) and the Southern Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca australis).

Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority

This project aims to increase the extent, condition, connectivity and resilience of native habitat, vegetation and landscapes between the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and high quality conservation riverine areas by maintaining and improving the condition of key 'focus river reaches' as identified by the Hawkesbury Nepean River Health Strategy.

The Yanco Creek and Tributaries Advisory Council

This project aims to improve the riparian habitat of the Yanco Creek System through the continuation of an aquatic weed eradication program, fencing to restrict stock access and revegetation with locally native species.

Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority

This project will establish a list of threatened species and implementing habitat management and reduction of threatening processes for the species of highest priority; implement control programs for nominated feral animals for biodiversity outcomes; establish a list of strategic weed control sites and implement control at priority sites; and work with the local Indigenous community to develop better management of Aboriginal cultural heritage sites. The project is the first stage of a proposed ongoing program to address specific threats to identified world heritage values.

Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority

This project will achieve strategic bitou bush control at 28 NSW Bitou Bush Threat Abatement Plan priority sites across NSW. Control will be specifically targeted to protect and recover native plant species and ecological communities identified as at risk of bitou bush invasion.

World Wide Fund For Nature Australia

In partnership with the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change, this proposal will increase numbers of brush-tailed rock wallaby in colonies to improve the colonies' resilience against predation. The aim is to stabilise numbers at a level high enough to tolerate occasional predation. The project will also improve knowledge and involvement of community groups and landholders in implementing recovery actions for brush-tailed rock-wallabies through training, volunteer programs, information packages and other promotional and awareness-raising activities.

Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group Inc.

This project involves rehabilitating 80 lowland rainforest remnants and other patches of high conservation value lowland rainforest vegetation covering over 380 ha in the NSW North Coast Bioregion. This vegetation is part of two Endangered Ecological Communities (lowland rainforest and rainforest on floodplain) and includes more than 50 threatened species listed under NSW Threatened Species legislation. This cross-regional project includes sites in the Clarence, Richmond, Brunswick and Tweed catchments.

Department of Environment and Climate Change

This project will restore native vegetation and bird habitat (including Little Penguin breeding areas) and continue to eradicate Kikuyu infestations.

University of Ballarat

This project will contribute to the National Reserve System by maintaining and enhancing the biodiversity values on Nanya Station, an area of 30,000 hectares, through the management of pest plants and animals, protection of key communities and species and establishment of monitoring programs for endangered species.

Lord Howe Island Board

This project aims to eradicate invasive rats and mice on Lord Howe Island. This will be achieved by conducting research to underpin impact assessments and mitigation measures and by engaging in community consultation to generate support for the eradication.

Blue Mountains City Council

This project will manage and conserve the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps ecological community across four local government areas that contain 95 per cent of this community's extent in Australia.

Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries

VegMachine is software that provides annual estimates of ground or tree cover since the 1980s on most of northern Australia's grazing country. This project will develop and deploy teaching and software support materials for the VegMachine software. The focus of the project will be embedding satellite-based monitoring technology into natural resource management and grazing land management extension for practical application and for a better understanding of the management of extensive rangeland grazing systems.

Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation

This project will trial broad acre aerial application of herbicide to Hymenachne amplexicaulis (a weed of national significance) followed by traditional burning during the dry season, to test an integrated approach to wetland management.

Burdekin Solutions Ltd

This project will improve biodiversity across the Burdekin floodplain through the protection, improved connectivity and rehabilitation of wetland habitats. The project will also inform and train landholders, industry groups and the community in the latest knowledge about best management practice of wetlands.

SEQ Catchments Ltd

The project will protect critical aquatic habitats, enhance biodiversity values and improve connectivity of regionally significant riparian and biodiversity corridors across the headwaters of the Stanley and Pumicestone catchments in south-east Queensland. This will be achieved through an integrated partnership approach which will increase the skills, knowledge and ability of landholders to undertake strategic on-ground activities.

The University of Queensland

This project will assist the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee to assess the habitat suitability of existing Brigalow ecosystems for bird, reptile and mammal groups and to assess the expected habitat benefit of vegetation restoration projects and alternative property management plans for these fauna groups though a web-based decision support tool.

Burdekin Solutions Ltd

This project will undertake on-ground works to protect remnant vegetation and riparian areas and to connect wilderness areas, national parks and core areas of high bioidiversity.

Toowoomba Landcare Group Inc.

The project will implement best management practices for the management of remnant vegetation, on linear reserves and private property, to increase biodiversity values through the removal of weeds of national significance. This will increase connectivity throughout the landscape and improve aquatic ecosystems, through a coordinated catchment wide approach in the Condamine & SEQ Western Catchments, beginning along the Great Dividing Range.

Queensland Murray-Darling Committee Inc.

This project will provide an accurate record of five priority flora species sites in the Stanthorpe Granite Belt to guide recovery planning for these species including ecological knowledge of these species, habitat mapping and baseline data of sites and populations for monitoring. The Stanthorpe Plateau Threatened Flora Recovery Plan covers nine state and nationally listed flora species that are not significantly conserved within protected areas. Four of these species are currently being surveyed to confirm their location through another project.

Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland

This project will continue the work of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland through its community-based Quoll Seekers Network program, and will increase community awareness and engagement in quoll related activities through the implementation of Quoll Discovery Days. On-ground activities include the provision of material and technical support for how to build a quoll proof poultry pen and the implementation of the Trap that Toad program. The project will also undertake on-ground survey work to collect information on the historic and present distribution of quolls in the Mary River headwaters.

Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers

This project will maintain and enhance the biodiversity values within an iconic local environment, the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park, and its approaching catchments. Activities to be undertaken include woody weed control, wetland rehabilitation, and weed suppression.

Northern Gulf Resource Management Group Limited

This project is focused on defining future directions for the Savanna Plan (Grazing Land Management) program to further the efficiency of the program in promoting sustainable grazing practices in the savanna grazing lands and to investigate the program's potential to provide a tool for carbon sequestration on pastoral properties across northern Australia.

Condamine Catchment Natural Resource Management Corporation Limited

This project will assist in the conservation of the nationally endangered Eastern Bristlebird by identifying habitat, controlling weed, pest and fire threats, and undertaking a captive breeding re-introduction and monitoring program.

South Burnett Regional Council

This project aims to enhance, protect and restore natural resources through an Integrated Biodiversity protection program, and a Critical Aquatic Habitat protection and restoration program.

Mulong Pty.Ltd

This project will maintain regional relationships with Indigenous communities and support them to develop multi-media products, maintain and update their databases, undertake training in use of videographic equipment and field recording techniques, communicate shared knowledge, undertake research priorities and NRM actions while demonstrating and recording their traditional knowledge. The project provides training and skill sharing within and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities through practical application of knowledge.

Capricorn Pest Management Group Inc

The project will focus on the implementation of the Fitzroy Basin Weed Management Strategy by the Capricorn Pest Management Group and Central Highlands Natural Resource Management Group. It will control weeds of national significance (WoNS) in watercourses in the Capricorn and Central Highlands sub-regions of the Fitzroy Basin NRM Region.

Greening Australia (Queensland) Ltd

This project will restore the riparian zone of Cooyar Creek, resulting in increased biodiversity, an improvement in water quality and greater take-up of sustainable farm practices by landholders.

Department for Environment and Heritage

This project will conduct surveys and establish permanent monitoring for threatened flora in the remote northern ranges of South Australia in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. The project will involve significant engagement with, and employment of, Traditional Owners and Indigenous Rangers.

South Australian Arid Lands Natural Resources Management Board

This project aims to improve natural resource condition including biodiversity, aquatic habitat and sustainable pastoralism. It will do this by reducing the significant current and potential threat feral goats present to high conservation value natural ecosystems and sustainable land use in the rangelands of SA.

Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board

The project will efficiently and effectively manage and control high-risk sleeper weed species on Kangaroo Island. It will work towards the protection and management of representative communities and habitats on public and private lands, including nationally threatened species; the eradication and exclusion of pests, weeds, and pathogens; and the better integration of farm and vegetation management.

Environment Protection Authority

This project will develop the water quality improvement plan for the Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed. The community will be engaged in identifying environmental values (i.e. aquatic ecosystems, crop irrigation, cultural) and water quality objectives to protect those values. These will enable targeted codes of practice, licence discharges, development planning and management actions to be developed.

Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management Board

This project will undertake foundational activities that will support strategic, large scale, on-ground implementation of the WildEyre Conservation Action Plan.

Arid Recovery

This project will increase the extent, condition and connectivity of Arid Recovery's reserve by eliminating rabbits and cats from the Red Lake expansion area to allow threatened species to increase their range from 60 to 86 square km.

Nature Conservation Society of South Australia

This project will recover 61 threatened plant species (28 nationally listed, 33 state listed) and six threatened ecological communities in South Australia through implementation and support of urgent on-ground recovery actions.

Ecological Horizons Pty Ltd

The project will improve the habitat for threatened species and reduce the impact of threatening species such as feral goats and foxes consequently addressing several priorities outlined in the Secret Rocks Management Plan.

Angas River Catchment Group

The project will protect and maintain the biodiversity assets within the Angas River Catchment (a tributary of the Lower River Murray in SA). Project activities include collecting and propagating seeds of 20 targeted flora species and revegetating with native species to connect and enhance key riparian sites.

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Inc

This project will produce an operational plan to reduce wildfire risks and conduct fire management in key areas of biological and cultural significance. Anangu will be involved in the development of fire management activities and learn about new technologies available to help assist with fire management.

South Australian Forestry Corporation

This project will undertake strategic on-ground weed control to protect and restore regionally significant ecosystems, including nationally significant fauna and flora. Weeds to be targeted include Bridal Creeper, Blackberry and Boneseed.

South East Natural Resources Management Board

This project will improve the community's recognition and management of Boneseed and other environmental pest plant threats, formulate a regional management plan for Boneseed in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board (SAMDB NRM), remove outlier populations in the Upper South East of South Australia utilising best practice techniques and preserve biodiversity in remnant public and private vegetation blocks.

Conservation Council of South Australia Incorporated

This project will deliver priority onground works at 20 sites identified through rigorous research and planning as areas of high strategic significance for the Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus intermedius) and the Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps.

Central Local Government Region of South Australia Inc

The fifteen Councils across South Australia's Mid North, Yorke Peninsula and Flinders Ranges have joined forces with the Northern and Yorke Natural Resource Management Board to provide direct support to local communities and councils across the region, focusing on three core priorities of the Caring for our Country program (Biodiversity and natural icons, Coastal environments and critical aquatic habitats and Community skills, knowledge and engagement).

Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation

This project will improve the biodiversity of the Western Desert through a range of on-ground activities and planning that will address immediate concerns as well as commencing strategic planning and mapping that will guide longer term directions and activities.

Moore Catchment Council Inc

This project will assist farmers to minimise the impacts of salinity through the establishment of brushwood on unproductive farming land across the Northern Agricultural Region of WA.

Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee Inc.

This project will achieve total control of all known adult populations of mesquite in the Kimberley, and progress the removal of other infestations in the Pilbara and Gascoyne, focusing on outlying infestations and areas of high conservation and public value. The project will enhance previous investment in on-ground control of mesquite in the Rangelands NRM region.

Blackwood Basin Group Inc.

This project will facilitate and support Aboriginal Cultural Education in the South West and South Coast Regions of Western Australia to raise awareness in the community about Aboriginal culture and traditional land management. In addition, it will enhance cultural and environmental education in schools throughout these regions, building community capacity and knowledge.

Birds Australia Western Australia Inc.

This project will identify, protect and manage critical feeding habitat within priority areas for the endangered Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo. Priority breeding sites have been identified, and are currently undergoing nomination as Important Bird Areas. Accordingly, this project proposes to identify, protect and manage critical feeding habitat on private land surrounding these priority breeding areas.

Department of Environment and Conservation

This project will reintroduce bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) and mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus) to Lorna Glen, a 244,000 ha ex-pastoral lease in the rangelands of WA, now managed by the Department of Environment and Conservation, in partnership with the Wiluna Aboriginal community, for conservation.

Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation

This project will implement a coordinated, regional approach to fire management for biodiversity, cultural and production outcomes in East Kimberley through targeting a group of adjacent Indigenous pastoral lands in the east Kimberley, totalling an area of approximately 1.8 million hectares.

Ord Land and Water Incorporated

This project will target Weeds of National Significance in the Ord and Fitzroy catchments of the Kimberley region. Areas of ecological significance will be protected through the control of salvina, parkinsonia, and other invasive weeds. Rubber vine will also be controlled to prevent the spread to productive pastoral land. Landholders will be engaged in weed control activities through the development and implementation of weed management plans.

World Wide Fund for Nature Australia

This project fills a critical gap by developing a coordinated conservation strategy for the globally recognised Southwest Australia Ecoregion (Southwest Australia) biodiversity hotspot. The project will identify ‘areas of conservation action' - areas representing high biodiversity value to be managed and protected for conservation through acquisition, perpetual covenants, voluntary management agreements and landscape recovery programs. The project provides a spatial plan and process for prioritisation, providing a focus for coordinated investment by government and non-government funders.

Project Platypus Association Incorporated

This project will increase knowledge about perennial pastures, leading to an increase in better pasture management, by establishing split paddock evaluation sites to measure animal performance on two or three different pasture mixes. It will use existing knowledge to encourage the establishment of deep rooted perennial pastures in targeted locations within the Upper Wimmera Catchment.

East Gippsland Rainforest Conservation

This project will improve sustainable agriculture in Gippsland by addressing biodiversity decline of threatened ecosystems in Grassy Woodland and Warm Temperate Rainforest in an agricultural landscape. It will increase the number of farmers, businesses and landholders delivering environmental services through their farming and industry activities.

Grand Ridge Plantations Pty Ltd

The project will restore an important corridor of endangered Warm Temperate Rainforest and provide a contiguous biolink through the Macks Creek catchment from the coastal plain to the Tarra-Bulga National Park. This involves removing large-scale blackberry infestations.

North Central Catchment Management Authority

This project will reconnect and restore instream and riparian habitat in the upper reaches of Gunbower Creek. Activities include the control of Weeds of National Significance, revegetation and protection of riparian habitat through fencing.

Wedderburn Conservation Management Network

This project will improve the habitat and survival of the Nationally Threatened Malleefowl population and other woodland birds and fauna in the Wedderburn area. This will be achieved by improving connectivity between fragmented habitat blocks, reducing fox predation, improving the habitat quality, increasing habitat area and reducing the threat from the nationally significant weed Bridal Creeper.

Department of Sustainability and Environment

This project will provide strategic vegetation linkages between remnant patches of the nationally threatened Gippsland Plains Grassy Woodland. It will focus on revegetation of private land and complement existing habitat enhancement activities on adjacent public land reserves and private land throughout the East Gippsland Red Gum Plains.

Maffra & Districts Landcare Network

This project will revegetate understorey and ground cover species and undertake weed control to enhance the biodiversity value of 20 existing Landcare revegetation sites which enhance and/or link remnant vegetation for two endangered Ecological Vegetation Classes (EVCs) in the Gippsland Plains bioregion: Swampy Riparian Complex and Gippsland Plains Grassy Woodland.

Mid-Loddon Sub-Catchment Group

The project will strengthen vegetation linkages from the forest ridges to the Loddon river by revegetating with native species and fencing off creeks, remnant vegetation and wetlands. It will involve agricultural, lifestyle and public land managers with inter-farm connecting project sites.

Merri Creek Management Committee Inc

This project will strengthen the habitat values of northern Melbourne's Merri Corridor, engage local communities, and extend and enhance threatened vegetation. Merri Creek is a habitat corridor of regional-state significance containing a number of nationally significant flora and fauna species, examples of the Critically Endangered Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain (EPBC listed), and a National Estate Listed reach (Craigieburn Grasslands to Cooper Street Grasslands).

Department of Sustainability and Environment

This project will better inform stakeholders about the extent, quality and management of grassland remnants on farms thus leading to their enhanced protection through eco-markets. The project will focus on the little known fragments of grassland that occur on farms particularly in Corangamite and Glenelg-Hopkins CMAs.

Victoria River District Conservation Association Incorporated

A native pathogen that affects Parkinsonia, a Weed of National Significance, has been field tested at several sites with successful results. This project will test a wider distribution and establishment of the pathogen across several districts and engage landholders in training and monitoring of sites. It will develop a standardised model including a project kit and instruction manual to build capacity amongst Landcare groups, Aboriginal Ranger groups and landholders to set up and monitor Parkinsonia dieback trials throughout the Territory.

Greening Australia (NT) Ltd.

This project fills a knowledge gap relating to species-specific native pasture management to increase the adoption of innovative native pasture management by pastoralists in the semi-arid tropics of the NT to improve their capacity to deliver sustainable production and environmental outcomes through an enhanced native pasture asset; increase pastoralists understanding of their native pasture asset and the impacts of their activities on this and improve the native pasture resource asset to enhance biodiversity, improve soil health, improve water quality and reduce erosion and increase carbon sequestration and productivity.

Darwin City Council

This project will continue successful cane toad control strategies to protect biodiversity and national icons, protect critical aquatic habitats, and continue to foster community skills, knowledge and engagement. It will focus on proven control methods and take cane toad control to another level by providing refuges for native species in remnant bushland around Darwin, and further develop community-driven efforts and education.

Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation

This project will trial the use of a new target specific bait to control pigs at ephemeral billabongs in the weeks prior to drying when predation on turtles is high. It will establish an experimental framework to compare the effectiveness of different turtle management strategies, including fencing and periodic culling and baiting of pigs. It will also test the predictive accuracy of a new modelling approach designed to evaluate regional conservation strategies for managing turtle populations in Arnhem Land in response to multiple and interacting impacts such as predation by invasive species, climate change, rises in sea level and human exploitation.

Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources Environment and The Arts

This project will provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation value of Northern Territory islands. The conservation values of at least some Northern Territory islands are threatened by invasion by cane toads, increased risk (through illegal fishing vessels) of invasion by exotic rodents, sea level rise and other factors. This project will undertake a risk assessment of all these factors to prioritise sites with high conservation values for subsequent management actions. In addition, this project will undertake or establish some currently recognised priority management actions.

Riyala Assn Inc

The project will field test the major cane toad control capabilities developed in recent years in the Northern Territory to demonstrate their potential as a cane toad management strategy.

Central Land Council

This project will implement priority recovery actions identified in the Recovery Plan for the Greater Bilby. It will build the skills and knowledge of Indigenous Ranger Groups through on-ground participation in threatened species surveys, and monitoring and management programs. Activities to be undertaken include the continuation of a fox baiting trial and the incorporation of a national track-based monitoring technique into long-term population monitoring sites in the Tanami and Great Sandy Deserts.

Northern Territory of Australia

This project will provide land owners/managers, natural resource management organisations and government with the knowledge required to strategically initiate conservation measures to preserve areas of high ecological significance on pastoral lands in the Northern Territory. The project forms part of a larger program to manage areas of high conservation value through cooperative agreements with landowners.

Cradle Coast Authority

This project will strategically control Weeds of National Significance (WoNS) outliers in the Cradle Coast NRM region, Tasmania. The project will improve integrity of plant communities (particularly listed threatened vegetation) and reduce the threat of weed spread to presently uninfected areas.

Department of Primary Industries and Water

This project will work with farmers to raise awareness of the nature of soil ecosystems and to build their capacity to monitor and improve soil ecosystem. It will demonstrate links between the populations and diversity of macro-invertebrates (earthworms, nematodes, springtails), soil microbial activity (eg fungi and bacteria) and soil carbon stores.

Northern Tasmanian Natural Resource Management Association Inc.

This project will implement key priority actions from a number of threatened species recovery plans in key riparian environments in north-eastern Tasmania. The project will undertake weed control and revegetation activities to improve the habitat viability for priority species including Black Gum - South Esk Pine Forest and in particular South Esk Pine (Callitris oblonga ssp Oblonga), Bertya tasmanica ssp tasmanica, Tasmanian Devil and Davies Wax Flower (Phebalium daviesii).

Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority

This project will decrease the impacts of nationally significant invasive species, including Boneseed and Asparagus, on coastal ecosystems and natural icons by partnering with, and building skills, knowledge and engagement of more than 90 key stakeholders in southern Tasmania.

Department of Primary Industries and Water

This multi-disciplinary project investigates the impacts of mucormycosis disease on Platypus in Tasmania. It uses rigorous science to address gaps in our understanding of the disease, and its ecological impacts, to ensure appropriate management and the long term conservation of these globally recognised natural icons in Tasmania.

Territory and Municipal Services

The Molonglo River is a critical aquatic habitat with high ecological values in both NSW and the ACT. This project will improve the critical aquatic habitat of the Molonglo River and limit threats to this ecosystem.

Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority

The proposal will enhance and protect terrestrial and riverine native vegetation from the Murray mouth in South Australia through to the Australian Alps through the development of a pilot program with ten catchment management organisations. The project will connect ecosystems to support healthier riverine environments, maintain ecological processes, enhance migration opportunities for flora and fauna and improve key habitat for threatened and endangered species in an effort to build resilience in the face of climate change.

Southern Gulf Catchments Limited

This project will build community capacity and undertake strategic on-ground control to protect and extend weed-free and weed-controlled areas in the Southern Gulf Catchments of northwest Queensland and the Arid Lands of South Australia across up to 2000 hectares.

Department of Primary Industries

The National Online Database for Weed Risk Assessment will make data available online to focus weed management on priority weed speciesand ensure an efficient use of resources to reduce the impact of invasive plants.

Victoria University

Best practice guidelines will be developed for the prevention and management of Chilean Needle Grass (CNG) in waterways across Australia. CNG is one of Australia's worst Weeds of National Significance (WONS). The capacity of CNG seed to spread via water flow will be documented and patterns of new CNG infestations mapped to increase understanding of waterway managers on the establishment of CNG from up-stream populations.

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

This project will enhance the conservation of threatened and declining woodland birds in the temperate region of south-eastern Australia. This project will benefit other threatened fauna and flora species and ecological communities through improved on-ground management and protection of woodland habitat and improved habitat connectivity through revegetation.

Stop the Toad Foundation (Inc.)

The Great Toad Muster involves an adaptive management technique and knowledge sharing with other community groups. It also involves an exclusion fencing element which has the potential to be a highly significant development in the manual control of cane toads. The Foundation will manage and play a central advisory role to bring together a range of community groups, Indigenous partners and other interested parties across northern Australia to undertake a week of sustained effort against populations of cane toads that are forced into refuge areas late in the dry season.

Natural Resource Management Board (NT) Incorporated

The project will build the ecological knowledge and planning skills of local land managers in remote Australia and help them to implement sustainable land management practices on their properties.

Territory and Municipal Services

This project will: remove barriers to fish passage; maintain and improve threatened fish populations; address rural and urban pollution sources; improving riparian buffer condition, extent, and biodiversity; and, reduce the impact of nationally significant weed species; to increase the connectivity and condition of critical aquatic habitats of the Upper Murrumbidgee from Scottsdale in New South Wales to Kambah Pool in the ACT.

Department of Primary Industries and Resources

This project will protect arid rivers in Northern South Australia and Western New South Wales from invasive Athel pine (Tamarix aphylla), a Weed of National Significance and assist community members, NRM groups, State Government and industry to protect arid riparian areas from a weed that would otherwise benefit from climate change thus protecting and restoring the biodiversity, water quality and productive values of these waterways.

National Rangelands NRM Alliance

Building on the National Camel Management Project, this project will implement an innovative market based instrument approach to assist in the management of feral camels. Effective management at a national scale is required to protect and restore the biodiversity, cultural, and pastoral values of the more remote and expansive arid regions of Australia.

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

This project will build on the Australian Government's long-term investment and continue to encourage and support community participation in conservation activities for Australia's threatened bird species. The project will also involve recovery actions for wetland birds, using the Australian Painted Snipe as a high-profile flagship underpinning conservation management of Australia's freshwater wetlands.

Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation

This project will use the Generalised Dissimilarity Model (GDM) and data from the Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool (ANHAT) to analyse biological data to identify priority areas for data collection for natural heritage assessment and map gaps in the coverage of the National Reserve System and extant native vegetation. This project will extend the GDM to incorporate IBRA regions and broad vegetation types and phylogenetic information, where available, for selected biological groups (thereby addressing aspects of evolutionary history).