20 July 2018

On Thursday 19 July 2018, Minister for Environment Lily D’Ambrosio announced the successful recipients of the Victorian Landcare Grants 2018-19.

Funding was provided to 363 Landcare and community environmental groups, including 143 project grants, 218 support grants and two start-up grants.

Project grants will be used to support on-ground works and community projects including weed control, pest animal control, protection of habitat, revegetation, and community education. The support and start-up grants will assist Landcare groups with insurance, incorporation and operating costs.

The Victorian Landcare Grants are helping to implement the Government’s long-term biodiversity plan – Protecting Victoria’s Environment – Biodiversity 2037.

Below is a list of all recipients from the Port Phillip and Western Port region. For the full list of successful recipients from across Victoria visit environment.vic.gov.au/grants/victorian-landcare-grants-2018-19.

Project grants:

• Friends of Steele Creek, Protecting Wurundjeri Culture and Country Together, $20,000
• South West Mornington Peninsula Landcare (SWaMP Landcare), Protect & Connect Stage 2 – Maxwell Road – Moonah Woodland & Tootgarook Wetlands Restoration Project, $20,000
• Balcombe Estuary Reserves Group, Mt Martha Inc (Berg Mt Martha), Grassy Woodland Restoration, Citation Hill, Mt Martha, 2018 $13,088
• Friends of Merri Creek Inc, Returning and Re-learning: bringing cultural burns and locally rare plants back to Fawkner grasslands, $19,668
• Cardinia Environment Coalition Inc, Mt Cannibal Reserve: Reducing the threat of invasive weeds in a high value flora community, $14,446
• Friends of Carrum Foreshore, Carrum Foreshore Restoration Works, $9,131
• Red Hill South Landcare Group, Red Hill South Biolink Habitat Improvement, $19,000
• Strathewen Landcare Group,Management of Invasive Weeds In the Upper Arthurs Creek Catchment, $16,500
• Main Creek Catchment Landcare Group,Bringing back Koala habitat: Restoring Macphersons Lane in Main Ridge, $15,767

Support grants:

• Upper Maribyrnong Catchment Group
• Bass Valley Landcare Group
• Monbulk Landcare Group
• Bass Coast Landcare Network
• Friends of Emu Bottom Wetlands Reserve Inc
• Jindivick Landcare Group Inc.
• Cannibal Creek Landcare Group Inc
• Deep Creek Landcare Group
• Olinda Creek Landcare Group Inc
• Little River Community Landcare Group
• Devilbend Landcare group
• Australian Landcare International
• Triholm Landcare Group
• Cardinia Catchment Landcare Inc
• Smiths Gully Landcare Inc
• Montrose Upper Landcare Group (MULGa)
• Bunyip Landcare Group
• McCrae Homestead Coastal Group Inc
• VIctorian Mobile Landcare Group Inc.
• Western Port Catchment Landcare Network
• Chum Creek Landcare Group
• First Friends of Dandenong Creek
• Phillip Island Landcare Group Inc
• French Island Landcare Group Inc
• Friends of Stony Creek
• Southern Ranges Environment Alliance
• Christmas Hills Landcare Group
• Bacchus Marsh Council Trench Reserve Committee of Management Inc
• Westernport Feral Alliance Inc
• Phillip Island Conservation Society Inc
• Toomuc Landcare
• Macclesfield Landcare Group
• Yarra Ranges Landcare Network
• Upper Deep Creek Landcare Network
• Mt Lyall Landcare Group
• Truganina Landcare Inc
• Hurstbridge District Landcare

Start-up grants:

• Whittlesea Landcare