Deadline: 31-Oct-22
The Limestone Coast Landscape Board (LC Landscape Board) is seeking applications for its Habitat Conservation Incentive Grants program that provides funding opportunities to Limestone Coast landholders.
This grant focuses on works that will align with the objective to support the co-benefits of biodiversity on farms, and ultimately contribute to the LC Landscape Board’s priority of “Conserving and enhancing our region’s biodiversity”. The Habitat Conservation Incentive Grants program provides funding opportunities to Limestone Coast landholders.
Objectives
Support on-ground works for biodiversity conservation outcomes, where there are primary productivity co-benefits. Incentive funding will be prioritised towards projects that will contribute to one or more of the following objectives:
- Enhance habitat resilience by managing the threats affecting remnant vegetation (including protecting paddock trees and wetlands), encouraging natural regeneration or replanting local species within patches of native vegetation.
- Creating buffers around priority areas of habitat or enhancing or creating links between habitats.
- Revegetating cleared areas to increase the extent of available habitats in the region, reduce the effects of fragmentation and/or support nearby habitats.
- Implementing recovery actions to address threatened species and threatened ecological communities listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act (1999).
Funding Information
- Funding is available for projects up to $7,000 (GST exclusive) for the 2023-24 financial year, with a total annual funding pool of $50,000 available.
Eligible Expenses
Funding will be offered to individuals, volunteers, community organisations and other bodies, on the following basis:
- Only expenditure incurred by the funding recipient, directly attributable to the approved project, will be considered eligible expenditure.
- Eligible expenditure must be incurred during the project start and completion date, or any approved variations.
- Funding is provided strictly to support the project and its core activities as per the grant application and any approved variations.
- Eligible costs that may be funded include materials and contractor costs. Payment for your own labour or your own staff’s labour is not eligible.
- In-kind contributions from the applicant such as labour, materials or co-funding are strongly encouraged and will be considered as part of the value for money assessment.
- Projects that may be subject to requirements under the Water Affecting Activity (WAA) Control Policy will need to be assessed before works commence. Applications must identify if any of the works within the project requires a WAA permit and an assessment. If a permit is required, this will be identified in the Grant Agreement along with any appropriate conditions.
- Successful projects with an on-ground works component may be subject to a cultural heritage assessment under the terms of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988. The Limestone Coast Landscape Board will facilitate this process.
- Successful projects will be expected to acknowledge the Limestone Coast Landscape Board in their promotions and publications, and are encouraged to send the LC Landscape Board news articles both from the original and extended/shared news source. Logos and branding information will be supplied upon request. Funding will not be provided for projects that have already commenced.
Eligibility Criteria
The following eligibility criteria will need to be met. The applicant will need to:
- Be an individual, volunteer, community organisation or other body.
- Be a legal entity or be sponsored by a legal entity.
- Be undertaking a project on private land.
- Where required, attach a Sponsor Support letter from a sponsor to the application, agreeing to be financially and legally responsible for this project.
- Have the agreement of any partner/s and provide a letter of support with the application form.
- Ensure that proposed project activities are not a component of any other funding agreement.
- Ensure that written approval for any works undertaken on land owned by another person/entity, other than the applicant, is attached to the application.
- Be undertaking project activities within the Limestone Coast landscape region.
Ineligible
You are not eligible to apply if:
- You have an overdue final report and acquittal for a previous grant from state/territory or Australian Government agencies or had funding revoked due to performance and/or integrity reasons.
- You are one of the following – Political organisations, or Government agency.
For more information, visit Landscape Boards South Australia.
For more information, visit https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/lc/get-involved/grants-and-funding/habitat-conservation-incentive-grants