In the 2022-2023 round, the ACT Environmental Grants Program funded:
- 18 projects to the value of $353,960 under the Environment Grants stream,
- 9 projects to the value of $121,266 under the Nature in the City Grants stream, and
- 5 projects to the value of $25,000 under the Environmental Volunteer Assistance Grants.
Successful projects
Environment Grants
| Project Title | Recipient | Total Amount |
|---|---|---|
Treasuring The Bidgee. | Mr Andrew Geikie | $14,520.00 |
Turtles in the sanctuary | Ginninderra Catchment Group | $25,850.00 |
Tracking the movement behaviours and spatial ecology of brown snakes on the urban fringe | Ginninderry Conservation Trust | $35,000.00 |
Blue-Devil and Native Sunray Grassland Rehabilitation | Umbagong Landcare Group and Ginninderra Catchment Group | $24,445.00 |
Protecting Rosenberg's Goanna: a citizen science project | National Parks Association of the ACT Inc | $34,820.00 |
Community Led Bushfire Recovery | Southern ACT Catchment Group | $31,900.00 |
Following Weston, Considering Country: A multi-disciplinary walks, talks, exhibition, symposium and publication project connecting communities with Weston Creek | Dr Kirsten Wehner and Southern ACT Catchment Group | $29,810.00 |
Ian Loiterton South Aranda Woodland Walk | Friends of Aranda Bushland Inc | $10,326.00 |
Ngunnawal Welcome Feature at the National Rock Garden | National Rock Garden Trust | $13,500.00 |
Rewilding A Peri Urban Park and Surrounding Gardens to Save Hollow Bearing Trees. | Molonglo Conservation Group | $11,000.00 |
Baseline Orchid Survey of Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge | Orchid Society of Canberra Inc. | $1,740.00 |
Fotpin Interpretive Signage | Friends of the Pinnacle and Ginninderra Catchment Group | $17,103.50 |
Bringing the bandicoot back: phase one of reintroducing an ecosystem engineer | Woodlands and Wetlands Trust | $31,980.00 |
Revegetating native ground cover | Friends of the Pinnacle and Ginninderra Catchment Group | $1,841.22 |
Restoration of Gibbs Place Grasslands, Kambah | Southern ACT Catchment Group | $7,830.00 |
Grassland Restoration of Bill Kennedy Memorial Park | Holder Landcare Group and Southern ACT Catchment Group | $9,570.00 |
Interpreting Ngunawal Country | Southern ACT Catchment Group | $33,100.00 |
Dryandra woodland (O’Connor) restoration stage 3 | Friends of Dryandra Woodlands and Molonglo Conservation Group | $19,624.00 |
Nature In the Cities Grants
| Project Title | Recipient | Total Amount |
|---|---|---|
UP1751 Urban Revegetation and Habitat Project | UP1751 Owners Corporation | $14,444.50 |
Rewilding Allan Gillies Park and Surrounding Gardens in Curtin to Reduce Urban Heat and Reconnect a Wildlife Corridor | Molonglo Conservation Group | $11,000.00 |
Urban Revegetation in Gungahlin | Ginninderra Catchment Group | $15,000.00 |
Macquarie Native Restoration: Returning to Nature to Escape the Heat | Ginninderra Catchment Group | $11,000.00 |
Many Hands Make Light Work | Oaks Estate Residents Association | $3,900.00 |
Macquarie Microforest Mulangari (Ngunnawal for alive) | Macquarie Primary School P&C Association | $28,500.00 |
Blue Gum Point woodland restoration, Yarralumla (year 3) | Friends of Grasslands | $22,627.00 |
Bird and Buddy Bliss in Hughes- helping protect gang gangs, superb parrots and other native wildlife in Hughes Urban Open Space | Tree-mendous Hughes Group and Woden Valley Community Council | $6,700.00 |
Greening Calwell High School | Calwell P&C Association | $8,095.00 |
Environmental Volunteer Assistance Grants
| Project Title | Recipient | Total Amount |
|---|---|---|
Landcarer training for pest plant management | Southern ACT Catchment Group | $5,000.00 |
Frogs in your Pocket - a pocket guide illustrating and explaining ACT frogs | Ginninderra Catchment Group | $5,000.00 |
Friends of Harrison Wetlands | Friends of Harrison Wetlands and Ginninderra Catchment Group | $5,000.00 |
New members- new website: upgrading the NPA website and social media | National Parks Association of the ACT Inc | $5,000.00 |
Capital Scraps Carbon squad | Capital Scraps Composting | $5,000.00 |