NSW Flying-fox Grant Program 2019 – Grants Awarded

Recipient Grant Project Summary Albury City Council $20,000 Public observation deck for Padman Park Flying-fox camp, standard operating procedures for staff and interpretive and regulatory signs for the Leaney's Bend site. Council $35,000 Paddy's Creek Flying-fox Camp Management including vegetation trimming, buffer creation, tree planting and community education. Central Coast Council $19,820 North Avoca Camp Protection: community consultation and subsidies for residents for items to reduce flying-fox impacts, including car covers and cleaning equipment. Central Coast Council $23,000 North Avoca Camp Protection: community consultation and subsidies for residents for items to reduce flying-fox impacts, including double glazing.

Cessnock City Council $15,000 Flying-Fox Camp Management Plan: review and update.

Cessnock City Council $50,000 East Cessnock Flying-Fox Camp Management Plan implementation including vegetation works and concept design for habitat augmentation. Cessnock City Council $15,000 Subsidy funding for residents of East Cessnock - clothes dryers. Cessnock City Council $15,000 Subsidy funding for residents of East Cessnock - air conditioners. $42,000 Maclean Flying Fox Management - including regeneration of the Maclean Rainforest, a Council-wide strategy and communications activities. Cowra Council $40,920 Cowra Golf Course - Flying Fox Management, including protecting the Cowra Golf Club flying-fox camp from harm and lowering risks to the patrons and workers of the Club. Hunters Hill Council $20,000 Tarban Creek Flying-fox management, including creating alternative flying-fox habitat by staged weed removal and replanting with suitable understorey species. Council $24,100 Rudder Park Flying-fox Camp Management Plan implementation, including a Vegetation Management Plan, an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage assessment, buffer creation and canopy mounted sprinklers.

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Ku-ring-gai Council $50,000 Implementation of the Ku-ring-gai Flying-Fox Reserve Management Plan, including subsidies to residents for double glazing Council $4,500 Helping Muswellbrook live harmoniously with Flying-foxes - including subsidies for businesses to mitigate flying- fox impacts. Port Macquarie Hastings $30,750 Koolonbung Creek Flying Fox Camp Management: manage community impacts and concerns associated with the Council camp, whilst conserving flying-foxes and their habitat. Actions include community engagement through site visits, community days and Landcare assistance as well as signage, a subsidy program and canopy mounted sprinklers.

Richmond Valley Council $15,000 Planting & Rehabilitation of Alternative Habitat - Queen Elizabeth Park Shoalhaven City Council $17,469 Berry Grey-headed Flying-fox Camp - engagement with residents and subsidy program for items to mitigate flying- fox impacts. Shoalhaven City Council $10,000 Bomaderry Grey-headed Flying Fox Community Education programs.

Singleton Council $10,000 Heat Stress Management for Flying-Foxes - including tree mounted water misters. Council $4,150 Flying-fox education and awareness campaign - including a suite of educational resources (flyers, online documents, interpretive signage, web content) Tamworth Regional Council $23,727 Peel River Flying Fox Roost Management - weed control and canopy thinning. Tamworth Regional Council $9,886 Peel River Flying Fox Roost Management - including an education campaign, a fixed-binocular unit and interpretive signage Council $15,000 Wollondilly Shire Council - Stonequarry Creek Flying Fox Camp Management Plan buffer implementation

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