Biolinks Support Grant to enhance Biodiversity Conservation in Australia

Deadline: 7-Oct-22

The Mornington Peninsula Shire is seeking applications for Biolinks Support Grant to enhance Biodiversity Conservation.

• An accessible and unique natural environment that helps their community to be healthy and well.
• A healthy ecosystem, in which their coastline, bushland, wildlife and green wedge is resilient to the climate emergency and development.
• A sustainable built environment that respects the natural environment and protects the community from the impacts of the climate emergency.
• An accessible built environment that supports diverse, current and future community needs.

• Reducing fragmentation by building upon and ultimately connecting habitat patches that have been subdivided, reduced and/or isolated.
• Providing habitat for wildlife that can persist in narrow corridors, or use them for foraging, breeding or sheltering.
• Providing pathways for individual animals to move between patches.
• Facilitating genetic exchange between populations in isolated habitat patches, therefore reducing their risk of local extinction.
• Enabling recolonisation of patches where species are locally extinct.
• Enabling species to disperse to areas with more suitable climatic conditions in the face of climate change.

Priorities

• Reduction of wildlife habitat fragmentation and provide connectivity for fauna movement.
• Reduced risk of local fauna and flora extinctions and buffer climate change effects

Funding Information

• Eligible applicants may seek up to $10,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible organisations include, Incorporated Associations, Not-for-Profit (NFP), Registered Charities and community groups.  Unincorporated community groups require an auspice organisation.  For Commercial Businesses, Sole Traders and individuals.
• Applicant organisations must be registered, solvent and have adequate level of public liability insurance relevant to the activity. (Note: unincorporated community groups must use an auspice organisation to apply).
• If an incorporated organisation is acting as an auspice organisation, it must only support two unincorporated organisations within a financial year.
• The applicant or auspice organisation must not be in debt and must be compliant with all grants previously awarded by Council.
• All projects, programs and activities must take place with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Local Government Area.
• An applicant school or learning institution may apply only where the project is not curriculum based, or where the activity or benefit is not confined to the learning institution but is for the primary benefit of the wider community.
• Retrospective funding for activities, programs and projects that have already started or have been completed will not be eligible.

Additional Criteria

• Council and Wellbeing Plan
  • Proposed project demonstrates alignment to the Council and Wellbeing Plan Theme 1.
• Bio-links Grant Priorities
  • Proposed project will contribute to one or more Biolinks Grant Program priorities.
  • Biodiversity Conservation Partnerships
  • Proposed project shows community engagement and collaboration with other community partners.
• Feasibility of the project
  • The project is able to be delivered. This includes permits, landowner permission and/or Community Capital Infrastructure Proposal Form completed if required.
• Capacity of Applicant
  • The Applicant’s demonstrated capacity, skills and experience including volunteers to deliver the project.
• Budget
  • Applicant’s budget for delivery of the project is realistic and shows volunteer in-kind contribution as well as co-contribution.

For more information, visit Mornington Peninsula Shire.

For more information, visit https://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Community-Services/Grants-and-Awards/Grants-and-Funding/Grants/Awarded-grants/Biolinks-Support-Grant