WildCountry Small Grants

Volunteers removing exotic pines to facilitate restoration of native eucalypt forest following harvesting of a pine plantation at Skyline Tier in north-east Tasmania. This is part of the 'Linking Landscapes' WildCountry vision developed by the North East Bioregional Network with the assistance of WildCountry small grants. Photo: Todd Dudley

One way in which WildCountry is applied regionally is through the work of small community groups.

Eight grants were allocated in 2010

The Dara Foundation and the Wilderness Society established a WildCountry Small Grants Program in 2005 to support these groups involved in landscape scale projects in southern Australia focused on understanding, protecting and restoring important ecological processes and connections at the national, regional, and local scale.

The program has been expanded across Australian areas that are currently a focus of WildCountry landscape initiatives.

It aims to support cooperative work towards implementation of conservation strategies and plans that incorporate and promote the scientific principles developed by the WildCountry Science Council.

Click here to view the criteria for assessment of WildCountry Small Grant applications

In the 2010-2011 financial year eight projects across Australia were funded

In the 2009-2010 financial year nine projects across Australia were funded