Apply now! Funding opportunities and other support for your property
Posted on 16 February, 2016 by Connecting Country
During the first six months or so of 2016, Connecting Country is seeking landholders to be part of the program ‘Connecting Landscapes Across the Mount Alexander Region’. We call it Connecting Landscapes for short.
Direct seeding lines winding their way through a property in Faraday as part of the on-ground works program. Photo: Bonnie Humphreys
The Connecting Landscapes team has been working with landholders and Landcare groups across the region for the past three years (since mid-2012) by enhancing existing bushland and undertaking new revegetation on private land.
Now the Connecting Landscapes program is coming into its final phases, and we want to spread news about it far and wide. The map below shows the potential geographic area for our program.
If your property or project area is found to meet the project’s criteria, the activities that we support can include:
- Site management plans – With input, direction and feedback from the landholder, our technical specialists will develop a plan for the property which identifies its environmental values (including flora lists), the threatening processes and agreed management actions.
- Bushland protection – We will support the management of existing remnant bushland areas, and also in younger vegetation areas that are naturally regenerating, by actions such as the installation and repair of protective fences, pest control and supplementary planting.
- Revegetation of paddocks – Using specially-designed machinery, we will sow locally sourced indigenous seed (potentially including Eucalyptus and Acacias) within your property. We also provide tubestock plantings where direct seeding is impractical.
- Weed and Rabbit Control – Our works crew will assist landholders in the control of rabbits and environmental weeds using best practice methods.
- Grazing Regime Change – In some situations, we can support bushland protection and enhancement through stewardship payments for grazing regime change.
Financial costs to the landholder are usually negligible, although some on-going maintenance activities are often part of the works agreement.
Please feel free to let your neighbours and friends in the local area know about this opportunity as well.
For more information or to get involved:
Visit our Connecting Landscapes web page
Complete and return an Expression of Interest form
Call Jarrod or Bonnie at Connecting Country ph 5472-1594, or email Jarrod at jarrod@connectingcountry.org.au
Support for the implementation of this Connecting Country program has been provided by the Australian government.
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