Deadline: 11-Mar-2022
The Mornington Peninsula Shire is offering Biolinks Support Grants for working in partnership with other stakeholders to support community aspirations aligned with adopted Council strategies and policies.
Aims
A biolink, also known as a habitat corridor, links separate habitat patches and aims to support biodiversity by:
- 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; and
- enabling species to disperse to areas with more suitable climatic conditions in the face of climate change.
Funding Information
- The Shire may provide either direct funding or in-kind support such as plants and materials for revegetation to successful projects as appropriate to the project.
- Eligible organisations may apply for up to $10,000 of funding (ex GST), however, consideration is strongly given to applications based on quality of on-ground actions regardless of the funding amount sought.
Eligibility Criteria
- Incorporated bushland Friends Groups, Landcare groups, and other interested incorporated community groups working to contribute to on-ground biodiversity outcomes through biolinks on private and/or public land are invited to apply.
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All applications will go through a two-step process:
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Initial Feasibility Assessment
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All potential biolink projects will be assessed to examine if they
- are feasible with no unresolvable impediments to delivery,
- meet the scope for Mornington Peninsula biolink projects, and,
- are likely to be well monitored and reported.
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All potential biolink projects will be assessed to examine if they
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Detailed Assessment
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Following the feasibility assessment, all suitable applications will be assessed together using the Biolinks Decision Support Tool — a set of questions from which each application is scored, from each of the following categories:
- Site values and suitability
- Community and economic considerations
- Feasibility and effectiveness
- Monitoring and reporting.
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Following the feasibility assessment, all suitable applications will be assessed together using the Biolinks Decision Support Tool — a set of questions from which each application is scored, from each of the following categories:
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Initial Feasibility Assessment
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