The Goulburn Broken Catchment is set to benefit from over $2.1million of funding allocated to community natural resource management projects.Funded by the Victorian State Government, the Communities for Nature Grants are a new $20 million program over 4 years. Eleven community groups in the Goulburn Broken Catchment have been successful in receiving funding in the first round of the Community for Nature Grants with amounts varying from $599,640 for a four year project focusing on woodland birds in the Broken Boosey area to $4,350 for environmental weed removal from Sunday Creek.
The Goulburn Broken Catchment is set to benefit from over $2.1million of funding allocated to community natural resource management projects.Funded by the Victorian State Government, the Communities for Nature Grants are a new $20 million program over 4 years. Eleven community groups in the Goulburn Broken Catchment have been successful in receiving funding in the first round of the Community for Nature Grants with amounts varying from $599,640 for a four year project focusing on woodland birds in the Broken Boosey area to $4,350 for environmental weed removal from Sunday Creek.
The competitive grants are targeted towards community groups and organisations, for projects focused on biodiversity and habitat preservation, threatened species recovery, sustainable management of native wildlife, revegetation, cleaning up waterways and control of weeds and pest animals.
"We are delighted to see the success of our communities groups in this first Communities for Nature Grants round which is attracting valuable funding for nature based projects across the Catchment".
"The Goulburn Broken Catchment environment and communities are set to benefit from the Communities for Nature Grants to the value of over $2.1 million over 4 years" explains Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority CEO, Mr Chris Norman.
For more information please visit your local Goulburn Broken CMA office at Shepparton, Benalla or Yea or telephone 03 5820 1100.