Funding Native Biolinks

Funding to create a Biolink

Funding support to landowners, provided by the Judith Eardley Save Wildlife Association, is available from Yarra4Life to create a Biolink from Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve to Kurth Kiln Regional Park.

 

What is the eligibility criteria?

Projects must:

  • Be located in the Yarra4Life priority biolink area between Yellingbo NCR and Kurth Kiln Regional Park, or close to this (See general map or more detailed map of property boundaries) AND
  • Protect existing habitat from stock with fencing AND/OR
  • Be willing to have the existing habitat improved through better weed management and/or infill revegetation OR
  • Be willing to revegetate all or part of the site with a suitable ecological community AND
  • Enter into a management agreement: 

      -for a minimum tenure of 4 years that identifies management actions and responsibilities &

      -to retain & maintain the ecological community & protective fencing for a minimum of 5 years

 

What are the priorities?

The Yarra Valley contains valuable area of habitat for native wildlife but it has been extensively cleared for urban development, tourism, recreation and agriculture. The area still supports populations of the Helmeted Honeyeater and the Leadbeater’s Possum although these and other wildlife species are threatened.

Farmers and other landowners are managing some of the valuable habitat remnants on their private land. Some remnants, with appropriate planning and management to improve their condition and secure their protection, could make a more significant contribution to landscape scale conservation of biodiversity at the district or sub-catchment scale.

This funding is to enable landowners, and especially groups of landowners working together close to reserves, to contribute to the creation of a continuous habitat link between Yellingbo NCR and Kurth Kiln Regional Park.

Priority will be given to proposals that bring together groups of landowners to improve the biolink on private land.
Priority for allocating this funding will be given to proposals that protect, improve and/or create the largest areas of biolink.
Proposals are particularly invited from landowners to protect remnant habitat that is adjacent (or in close proximity) to existing wildlife reserves (Yellingbo NCR and Kurth Kiln Regional Park).

Investment scope

Proposals are invited from landowners for support to carry out biodiversity conservation management in the priority biolink areas to link Yellingbo NCR and Kurth Kiln Regional Park.

Activities eligible for support will include the fencing of remnant or revegetated habitat areas, weed management and infill revegetation within biolink areas. Revegetation to form biolinks between remnant habitat areas are also eligible.

Cost sharing arrangements will be considered.

This funding is available to land owners who will undertake one or more of the following:

  • Protection, improvement and creation of native wildlife habitat on their property, especially for threatened species such as the Helmeted Honeyeater and Leadbeater's Possum. This might include fencing, weed control and/or revegetation works
  • Sell some or all of their property to protect native wildlife habitat through a straight sale to a recognised agency or an environmental non government organisation
  • Agreement to covenant some or all of their property so that it contributes to the biolink between Yellingbo NCR and Kurth Kiln Regional Park and is protected in perpetuity for the purpose of wildlife conservation

 

Interested in applying?

Expression of interest form (PDF)
Expression of interest form (word document)