Deadline: 31-Oct-22
The Kangaroo Island Landscape Board is pleased to open Round 2 of the Kangaroo Island Bushfire Recovery Fencing grants to provide further financial assistance to landholders affected by the 2019-2020 bushfires.
Round 2 of funding is to help landholders:
- replace or establish fencing that protects native vegetation burnt in the 2019- 2020 fires on Kangaroo Island.
- replace or establish fencing that protects unburnt native vegetation within the 2019-2020 firescar on Kangaroo Island.
- replace or establish fencing that protects native revegetation projects within the 2019-2020 firescar on Kangaroo Island.
- replace fencing lost during recent floods within the 2019-2020 fire scar
The funding can be provided retrospectively for fencing work that has already been completed, as well as fencing works that are underway or yet to commence. Funding for the Bushfire Recovery Fencing Grants was provided by the Government of South Australia to the Department for Environment and Water and the Minister for Environment and Water as part of its continued efforts to empower local communities to recover from the devastating bushfires on Kangaroo Island, and the Australian Government’s Bushfire recovery package for wildlife and their habitat.
Funding Information
- Funding is paid at a rate of $3,125 per kilometre. This is based on the material costs of a plain wire fence (7 wire), allowing for 4x double-stay box assemblies and 1x gate per km of fencing.
Activities
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The Bushfire Recovery Fencing Grants can only be used to:
- replace or establish fencing that protects native vegetation burnt in the 2019-2020 fires on Kangaroo Island, or
- replace or establish fencing that protects unburnt native vegetation in the 2019-2020 firescar on Kangaroo Island, or
- replace or establish fencing that protects native revegetation projects in the 2019- 2020 firescar on Kangaroo Island (a list of plants native to Kangaroo Island and
- advice about revegetation projects is available through the KI Landscape Board)
- replace fencing lost during recent floods within the 2019-2020 fire scar
- This includes fencing that has commenced or been completed before the grant application is submitted.
- There are no restrictions on the minimum size or width of fenced areas.
Eligibility Criteria
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The following eligibility criteria will need to be met. The applicant will need to:
- be a Kangaroo Island landholder (individual, trust, corporation, business, or organisation)
- be a legal entity
- be undertaking or have undertaken fencing on Kangaroo Island on a property affected by 2019/2020 bushfires
- upon completion of the fencing provide a statutory declaration that the fencing has not been funded through an insurance claim or any other source
For more information, visit Landscape South Australia.
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For more information, visit https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ki/community-connections/funding/bushfire-recovery-fencing-grants