Landholder Environment Grants – Australia

Deadline: 12-Aug-2024

Sunshine Coast rural landholders are invited to submit expressions of interest for assistance to undertake environmental works on private property.

Landholder Environment Grants (LEG) provide financial assistance for private rural landholders to undertake on-ground projects on their properties. The purpose of the grants are to protect and enhance the natural assets and biodiversity of the Sunshine Coast, and promote ecologically sustainable management of the region’s environmental values.

Priorities

• Priority is given to projects that:
  • will achieve cost effective on-ground outcomes
  • have high ecological value
  • have at least a matching landholder contribution
  • will deliver benefits to the wider community
  • demonstrate commitment to maintaining the work into the future
• Low priority is given to:
  • projects that are not cost-effective or do not demonstrate sufficient planning

Funding Information

• Applicants may apply for up to $15,000 assistance towards their project.

Eligible Projects 

• Projects must be on privately-owned rural land within the Sunshine Coast Council Local Government Area. Landholders can apply for assistance to carry out natural resource management activities such as:
  • fencing to restrict stock access to significant areas of native vegetation, wetlands or waterways
  • installing off-stream stock watering points and stock crossings
  • revegetating degraded areas and establishing native vegetation corridors and buffer zones
  • reducing sediment and nutrient runoff on farms
  • controlling environmental weeds to rehabilitate native vegetation areas
  • modifiying existing fencing to make it more wildlife friendly (note that installation or modification of boundary fencing is not eligible).

Ineligible Projects

• Works or activities that:
  • are not on private land
  • are a condition of a council or state government development approval
  • have previously received council funding
  • are for control of free floating and submerged aquatic weeds
  • installation or modification of boundary fencing
  • are the normal responsibility of the landholder (eg upgrades, maintenance or repairs to property infrastructure such as dams, weirs, drains, fences and tracks)
  • contravene any local, state or commonwealth legislation or policy
  • are focussed on providing private or scenic amenity eg landscaping
  • involve projects on urban properties
  • multiple projects on one property in a single application.

Eligibility Criteria

• Private rural landholders of the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area, who have satisfactorily met all acquittal conditions of previous council grants are eligible to apply.
• Applications must be submitted by the landholder.
• Landholders can apply for only one grant per round.
• A single application must only address one project.

For more information, visit Sunshine Coast Regional Council.