Deadline: 25-Sep-20
The National Wildlife Heroes Large Asset grant program is managed by the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife with funding from the Australian Government’s Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation initiative.
This grant program will enable licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitation groups, shelters, and not-for-profit veterinary hospitals to acquire larger durable assets for use in the rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation of animals as a result of emergency situations.
This grant round will prioritize support to rebuild and repair fire-damaged wildlife care infrastructure and improve existing assets to increase the wildlife rehabilitation sector’s capacity to respond to fire emergencies.
Goals
- Enable licensed wildlife groups, shelters, and not-for-profit wildlife veterinary hospitals to buy appropriate equipment for emergency response.
- Replace assets lost during the summer 2019-20 fire emergency.
- Offset the cost of emergency response to individual volunteers.
- Increase the capacity of the wildlife rehabilitation sector to meet the demands of future emergency events.
- Enhance the efficiency, safety, and effectiveness of wildlife emergency response operations.
- Improve animal welfare outcomes for injured wildlife.
Funding Information
- The total amount of funds available for allocation under this grant program is $500,000.
- Grant requests should be between $10,000 and $50,000.
- Grants for assets worth more than $50,000 will be considered where there is a co-contribution of funds or where two or more groups have partnered on an application.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are welcomed from:
- Licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitation groups, shelters.
- Not-for-profit wildlife veterinary clinics and hospitals.
- All states and territories except NSW. NSW groups should apply via the NSW round.
Eligible items
Individual assets must have a value of $10,000 or more to be eligible. Applications that combine smaller value assets to reach a minimum value of $10,000 will not be considered. Each application is for one asset only. Groups should submit a new application for each asset.
Eligible items the grant can pay for:
- mobile diagnostic equipment or intensive care units.
- trailers for carrying emergency response equipment.
- component of mobile wildlife hospital or emergency response vehicle (e.g. custom fitting or modification).
- purchase, construction, upgrade, or repair of holding cages, pens, and enclosures for housing and transporting animals.
- purchase, construction, significant upgrade, or repair of large, fixed enclosures, particularly pre-release enclosures.
For more information, visit https://wildlifeheroes.org.au/national-wildlife-heroes-large-durable-asset-grant-2020-guidelines/