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Approved 20 Million Trees Round Two Projects to Begin in the 2015/2016 Financial Year Approved 20 Million Trees Round Two Projects to begin in the 2015/2016 financial year No. Of Grants Trees App ID Project Title Project Description Applicant Name Total (above State (GST incl) 2m mature) A 6 km stretch of the headwaters of Sullivan's Creek has been identified as an important link in critically endangered Box-Gum Grassy Woodland as a priority for revegetation, to enhance terrestrial connectivity and riparian health and to Connecting Woodlands provide habitat suitable for wildlife such as Bettongs which are planned to be Capital Woodland and and Water - Building a released in the area in coming years. This will also connect habitat for other 20MTR2-202 Wetlands Conservation $56,760.00 4,600 ACT Bettong-ready important terrestrial flora and fauna within the woodlands and surrounding Association_Inc Goorooyarroo urban areas. A combination of community volunteers and skilled contractors will work in collaboration, to enhance community ownership, pride and understanding of the ecosystem and will feed into a broader wildlife management and community engagement program by the Trust. Hexham Swamp on the edge of Newcastle is part of the Hunter Wetlands National Park. It is listed in the Directory of Important Wetlands of Australia, is an Important Bird Area and flows into the Hunter Estuary Wetlands Ramsar Site. Hexham Swamp - It is also part of the Stockton-Watagans Regional Green Corridor, connecting the reinstating native Great Eastern Ranges to the coast. The Swamp has a perimeter of 53 km, of Wetlandcare Australia 20MTR2-116 vegetation $107,585.50 10,000 NSW which almost 90 percent has been cleared. A major project reinstating tidal Pty Ltd communities at Tank flows to the swamp is underway. This 20MT proposal will reinstate Coastal Paddock Foothills Spotted Gum – Ironbark Forest in Tank Paddock adjacent to Hexham Swamp. The project will add value to WCA’s current 20MT project, further increasing the extent of terrestrial woodland fringing Hexham Swamp. 1 This project is a key step in a strategic plan to connect the vegetation of the Great Dividing Range along the eastern edge of the Central New South Wales Tablelands with significant isolated islands of native vegetation in the west. Fish River and Sewells These vegetation isolates contain numerous threatened species including the Creek Rehabilitation iconic Booroolong frog, copper butterfly and black gum community. The corridor Local Land Services 20MTR2-111 $110,000.00 12,000 NSW and Biodiversity traces a once major song line and trading route for Australian Indigenous (Central Tablelands) Corridors peoples and holds numerous important cultural sites. Initially through the combined work of more than 20 private landholders, Forestry Corp., Local Aboriginal Land Councils, Land Care and State Government an area of 150 ha will be planted using over 12,000 trees of local provenance. Five consortium partners will revegetate 40 ha of degraded floodplain in internationally important Hunter Estuary wetlands by direct seeding and Tomago and Hexham planting 237,700 locally native plants, consisting of 24 species of plants that sections, Hunter form NSW-listed Swamp Oak and Swamp Sclerophyll Forest Endangered Shortland Wetlands 20MTR2-145 Wetlands NP - Ecological Communities (EECs). Plantings will include 850 individuals of federally $108,130.00 229,000 NSW Centre Ltd revegetating 40 ha of listed threatened plants Magenta Lilly Pilly and White-Flowered Wax Plant, floodplain create landscape connectivity between two patches of remnant vegetation covering 460 ha, and create habitat and food sources for federally listed threatened fauna Koala, Spotted-Tail Quoll and Swift Parrot. This project will be a key initial step in a strategic plan to connect native vegetation of the Great Dividing Range along the eastern edge of the Central New South Wales Tablelands with significant isolated islands of native Cowra Rehabilitation vegetation in the west. These vegetation remnants contain numerous and Restoration of threatened species including the iconic Koala, regent honeyeater and swift Local Land Services 20MTR2-112 $110,000.00 15,000 NSW Native Vegetation parrot. The corridor traces a once major song line and trading route for (Central Tablelands) Assets Australian Indigenous peoples and holds numerous important cultural sites. Initially through the combined work of more than 25 private landholders, Local Aboriginal Land Councils, Land Care and State Government an area of 150 ha will be planted using over 15,000 trees of local provenance. 2 This project will create and restore a strategic habitat corridor throughout 29 ha of the landscape of the mid Richmond River, which will expand habitat for the Nationally Threatened Koala whilst linking the existing Tucki Tucki Nature Wilson's River - Reserve, through an area of Nationally Threatened Lowland Rainforest to an Connecting Riparian extended Riparian Corridor along the Richmond River. A total of 5.5 ha of Wetlandcare Australia 20MTR2-37 and Reserve Koala $107,229.10 5,000 NSW previously cleared native vegetation will be replanted creating 1500 m of Pty Ltd Habitat and restoring riparian corridor to link existing riparian Koala habitat remnants on the Wilson's TEC River and 750 m of terrestrial corridor to link riparian habitats with nearby terrestrial Koala habitat remnants. Restoration works across 23.5 ha will enhance condition of the linked existing habitat. Pelican Island, part of Woregore Nature Reserve, is in the Hastings River near Port Macquarie NSW. It is important feeding and roosting habitat for critically endangered wading birds and contains endangered ecological communities, Pelican Island - including littoral rainforest. Restoration has been ongoing for some years, most Revegetation of Littoral recently the past 3 years, with federal grant funds. Native vegetation is 20MTR2-46 S.V Proust and P West $23,596.10 700 NSW Rainforest and Sand regenerating well and weed loads have been substantially reduced. However, Swales. there are areas of the island where disturbance from weeds was very high or where native vines are suppressing regeneration. We will plant and/or direct seeding these areas to assist in their restoration. Being an island, we can only gain access on certain days due to the tides. The project will re-establish the Riverina Highway roadside corridor at Blighty. Through a combination of direct seeding and tube stock planting it will help to connect existing remnants and planted areas either side of Highway and within Revegetation of the the Blighty Recreation Reserve. This will create a more effective biodiversity 20MTR2-230 Conargo Shire Council $36,493.60 4,918 NSW Blighty Corridor corridor for local wildlife and connect the elongated aspects of the Blighty village aesthetically for both the local community and visitors. The project area's high profile will help demonstrate revegetation techniques. Signage at either end of project will be erected. 3 This project will increase, by 28 ha, the extent of riparian corridor vegetation along the Nepean River. The vegetation on Shaw's Island is composed of isolated pockets of Casuarina Woodland. This ecological community has suffered the "An Island Girt by impacts of land clearing, grazing and weed invasion. Through strategic re- Hawkesbury River 20MTR2-23 Green" - Shaw's Island establishment of 18,000 locally appropriate native plants, the project will $108,145.40 10,800 NSW County Council Revegetation Project improve the condition, connectivity and resilience of this community and expand upon the extensive weed control that Hawkesbury River County Council (HRCC), funded by the NSW Crown Lands Division, has undertaken on the island for the past 10 years. The project involves the restoration of over half a ha of sub-tropical rainforest along a 250m stretch of Byron Creek in Bangalow. The site currently consists of degraded farmland infested with Camphor laurel and other environmental weed Byron Creek, Bangalow species. The project will control these weeds and establish a wide diversity of Bangalow Land and 20MTR2-106 - Riparian Rainforest $58,080.00 3,000 NSW locally endemic sub-tropical rainforest trees and shrubs that will enhance and Rivercare Restoration extend an existing Big scrub rainforest remnant and restoration plantings along this section of Byron Creek, providing habitat for terrestrial and aquatic fauna communities. This project will see a large corridor of farm land restored to native vegetation in central NSW. The activities will engage passionate landholders, Landcare, the Condobolin Green Army team and community in undertaking revegetation activities that will connect two threatened ecological communities, providing a Derriwong/Ootha - significant area of native vegetation established within biodiversity corridors. Derriwong-Ootha 20MTR2-157 Connecting Ecological $110,000.00 26,880 NSW The project will provide multi-beneficial conservation and agricultural outcomes Landcare Group Inc. Communities in this productive grain, lamb and wool region, including provision of habitat and refuges for threatened woodland and migratory birds and other wildlife, connectivity with existing remnant vegetation, a valuable seed collection resource, stock shelter and improved grazing management. 4 Once a landscape of interconnected wetland systems, Mulloon Creek now bears eroded gullies. Working collaboratively, this project recreates wetland ecosystems, providing renewed habitat for threatened native fauna. Contributing to Mulloon Institute's (MI) long-term
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