Approved 20 Million Trees Grants Round Three Projects to begin in the 2017/2018 financial year App ID Project Title Project Description Applicant Name Grants Total (GST Incl.) No. of Trees (above 2m mature) State 20MTR3-16 Biodiversity Urban Corridors Project Albany Biodiversity Urban Corridor Project is a key objective of the City of Albany's Urban Tree Strategy, which aims to identify, conserve and enhance urban and peri urban environments for greater flora and fauna connectivity. Western Ringtail Possums require dense jarrah, marri, Sheoak, and peppermint tree corridors, which allow them to travel between pockets of urban remnant vegetation. Lake Seppings is a key corridor that supports possums to travel between Mt Clarence and Emu Point habitats. With the support of South Coast NRM and local Albany Bushcare groups, this project will assist in revegetation works as well as supporting extensive community consultation to ensure the successful implementation and long term viability. This will achieve sustainable revegetation and complement ongoing conservation efforts for Lake Seppings. City of Albany $96,500 50,000 WA create,
20MTR3-69 Wilmot Biodiversity Regeneration Program This Project will seek to greatly enhance a largely bare and barren portion of degraded farmland through the reintroduction of an array of native species of shrubs and trees, most notably the Eucalyptus nova anglica; a threatened species in this region. Wilmot has been practicing regenerative agriculture for the last five years and has made extraordinary improvements in land condition, waterways, ecology, and soil carbon. The next phase of this regeneration is to plant back a significant amount of native trees to make some big gains in biodiversity and carbon cycling. Trees will be planted along existing fence lines connecting native bushland areas on and around the property. This will create wildlife corridors for native birds and animals, improve biodiversity, slow wind across the landscape, and create far better nutrient cycling through the ecosystem. Wilmot Cattle Company Pty Ltd $82,313 20,224 NSW 20MTR3-70 Carnaby's habitat in the Moore catchment Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) are endemic to WA but are rapidly in decline with total population estimates of less than 60,000. Past and continuing clearing of breeding and forage habitat is threatening future survival. The project aims to increase Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo numbers through increasing and connecting priority breeding and forage Swan Banksia woodland and Wheatbelt Eucalypt woodland habitat. Planting will take place at 7 sites on 5 farms, and include engaging a local Working on Country Yued planting team. Moore Catchment Council (MCC) $110,000 35,000 WA 20MTR3-96 Mount Urah Koala Habitat Restoration The project will restore 27.18 hectares of koala habitat at Mount Urah through revegetation activities. Project activities will include fencing the site to exclude grazing activity, assisted seed and lignotuber regeneration, and the planting of 18,000 trees in areas where regeneration is unlikely. Restoration work on this site will buffer and link the surrounding forest, improving overall habitat values for the koala and providing additional feed trees. Private Forestry Service Queensland $110,000 20,000 QLD
20MTR3-148 Swift Parrot: Winter Wanderers. This project will revegetate 52.38 ha of suitable habitat for the threatened migratory Swift Parrot by reinstating natural food sources and planting key winter-flowering species. It will improve the extent, condition and connectivity of the EPBC Threatened Ecological Communities: Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodland and Box Gum Grassy Woodland. The project will strategically revegetate with 25800 plants (16800 >2m) to increase the extent of food tree habitat and structural diversity in fertile areas on private land. Winter food trees are distributed patchily across the landscape and therefore more areas need to be planted to increase food tree availability, particularly in relatively fertile areas that provide more reliable resources, which have been disproportionately cleared. Goulburn Broken CMA $100,000 16,800 VIC 20MTR3-155 Restoring threatened EP Blue Gum, Lipson This project will be undertaken on the Warratta Vale property near Lipson. It will enhance a section of Salt Creek with 6,500 trees and 5000 understory plants established via direct seeding, providing species richness and recreating EP Blue Gums woodland. The planting will also conserve the remaining EP Blue Gums and remnant vegetation in this section of Salt Creek by increasing the biodiversity and enabling long-term health and viability of the creek lines native vegetation. Eastern Lower EP Landcare Management Com $22,550 6,500 SA
20MTR3-258 Mount Burr Swamp revegetation The project will restore 5.72 ha of wet heath (wetland fringe) and brown stringybark (E. baxteri)/manna gum (E. viminalis ssp. cygnetensis) forest through revegetation and natural regeneration. The area to be restored will enlarge an existing 600 ha area of high quality native vegetation protected within Marshes Native Forest Reserve (NFR). Marshes NFR provides verified habitat for no less than six nationally threatened fauna species, including the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Growling Grass Frog, Southern Bent-wing Bat, Australasian Bittern and Red-tailed Black-cockatoo. The project will expand and enhance habitat for these species. The Trustee for Nature Glenelg Trust $110,000 43,710 SA 20MTR3-262 Yellingbo habitat restoration This project will increase habitat availability for the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater and endangered Leadbeaters Possum. It will improve habitat condition and food availability for these EPBC-listed species across a 1.37ha site. The project will engage approximately 1000 volunteers over 3 years to deliver ecological outcomes, underpinned by explicit habitat modelling and best-practise restoration science. The project site will include a deer exclusion fence to protect the revegetation from predation. Cecilia Imre $110,000 33,350 VIC