More than $200,000 in state government grants have bolstered Landcare projects to improve biodiversity and land health across the region.
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Eighteen applications from the North Central Catchment Management Authority’s region were successful this year.
“For the second year in a row, we had the highest success rate ever for our community grants program,” North Central CMA regional Landcare co-ordinator Tess Grieves said.
“That goes to show our Landcare and community groups are really on the ball and focussed on the environmental projects that are important to their communities.”
One of the grants has gone to the Kara Kara Conservation Management Network, which partners with other groups and community members to restore the landscape in and around the Kara Kara National Park in the region’s west.
“They are also working with adjoining landholders and public land managers, to increase public awareness about the habitat requirements of a range of native species in both urban and rural setting,” Ms Grieves said.
“The group focus heavily on citizen science monitoring in the area’s fragmented woodlands, supported by public events to demonstrate simple ways people can create native wildlife-friendly habitat wherever they live.”