Criteria for assessment of WildCountry Small Grants applications

Assessment Criteria

The project must meet at least one of the following:

•    Project is strategic in building regional conservation activities consistent with WildCountry program principles and objectives

•    Project will fill a gap in current conservation activities

•    Project addresses existing or anticipated threats to ecological integrity

•    Project encourages the understanding and application of WildCountry science principles in a regional context

•    Project builds alliances that will support application of WildCountry science or development of conservation-compatible economies

Additional considerations

•    The applicant individual or group has sufficient capacity to complete the project successfully

•    The project will build capacity for conserving and restoring ecological integrity, species diversity, or ecological resilience in the region

•    The project could not be funded under an existing program or from a member group’s organisational budget

•    Likelihood that use of the project grant can secure from other sources additional funds for WildCountry compatible activities

•    Defining the mechanism(s) by which the results of the project will be communicated to the public, governments, communities and other eNGOs

Geographic areas to which the program currently applies

•    Gondwana Link including the Great Western Woodlands, WA

•    The Kimberley, WA

•    WildArc (Eyre Peninsula to Ceduna), SA

•    Great Southern Sanctuary region which crosses the borders of Vic, NSW, SA (formerly

•    known as Tri-state)

•    Central Victorian Uplands

•    Wild Island project area,(Tasmania)

•    Travelling Stock Routes, NSW and Qld

•    Hunter region, NSW

•    Channel Country, Qld and SA

•    Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf, Qld

•    Marine and Coastal waters, NT

Ecological elements of special interest

•    Keystone species science or conservation

•    Landscape elements likely to be refugia during climate change and disruption