2008-09 Individual Project Grants
Individual grants were available to community groups, industry associations, local government and individuals for projects that provide benefits to the environment through direct action, research or education. Grants were available in the Wildlife category for the first time in 2008/09.
27 individual projects were successful with a total of $268,000 allocated.
In 2008-2009 six categories were available:
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental Education / Capacity Building
- Environmental Management / Stewardship
- Re-thinking Waste
- Water Conservation
- Wildlife
More Information about the types of projects considered can be found on the Individual projects grants page.
Successful projects in 2008/09 by category are:
Energy Efficiency Category
Desert Knowledge Australia COOLmob (under ALEC)
Greenhouse Friendly Action in Central Australia booklet: Edition 2
Desert Knowledge Australia COOLmob (under ALEC)
Tennant Creek Home Energy Audits
Environmental Education / Capacity Building Category
Malak Garden - A Growing Community
Conservation Volunteers Australia
Students for Conservation
COOLmob - Environment Centre NT
COOLmob Community Service Announcements
World Environment Day EXPO 2009
St Josephs College Sinkhole Protection Project
Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation
Dave Lindner and the South Alligator River wetlands
(The) Institute for Aboriginal Development
One Step from the river - native food and medicinal plants
Carbon-Free National Youth Environment Conference
Darwin Youth LEAD 2009
Environmental Management / Stewardship Category
City of Palmerston - Environmental Management Plan
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
Collaboration with external organisations facilitating sustainable management and use of the Dhimurru IPA
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
Monitoring of biodiversity and cultural values of the Dhimurru IPA
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
Track and campsite upgrades inclusive of interpretive walks, fencing and site signs
Lake Evella Project
Catchment awareness though signage
Motor Trades Association (NT) Inc
Green Stamp Plus Eco-Efficiency Program
Re-thinking Waste Category
Keep Australia Beautiful Council Northern Territory
2008/09 Re-thinking Waste in Schools Challenge
Keep Australia Beautiful Council Northern Territory
2008-2009 Territory Tidy Towns Program
Water Conservation Category
No projects awarded in this category.
Wildlife
Building of Rehabilitation Cages at Living Skills Unit – Darwin Correctional Facility
Conservation Volunteers Australia
Invasive Ant Surveys in East Arnhem Land
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
Marine turtle rescue and ongoing feral animal and weed control, land rehabilitation and fire management
Feral cat management program
Eliminating feral animals and fencing of Paw Paw Springs
Teaching northern quolls to avoid toads to enhance their survival
Wildlife Rescue Service Katherine
Injured Species Rescue Program
Energy Efficiency Category
Desert Knowledge Australia COOLmob
(under Arid Lands Environment Centre)
| Region: | Alice Springs |
| Sub Region: | Alice Springs |
| Amount: | $4,500 |
| Project Name: | Greenhouse Friendly Action in Central Australia booklet: Edition 2 |
| Description: | The current edition of the “Greenhouse Friendly Action in Central Australia” booklet has been popular. It contains practical, interesting and relevant information to promote energy efficiency and water-wise action amongst residents. It links consumption (power, water and products) to climate change, encouraging action. This project will create a revised edition of the booklet, for new residents in town and distribution to Tennant Creek. Revisions to the booklet include updated statistics and extra information relevant to Tennant Creek. Opportunity for community collaboration. |
Desert Knowledge Australia COOLmob
(under Arid Lands Environment Centre)
| Region: | Alice Springs |
| Sub Region: | Tennant Creek |
| Amount: | $7,000 |
| Project Name: | Tennant Creek Home Energy Audits |
| Description: | Desert Knowledge Australia COOLmob is trialling a Home Energy Audit service in Tennant Creek and would like to continue the service in 2008-2009. We will train a team of auditors to provide Home Energy Audits on a regular basis. Home Energy Audits assist residents to reduce power bills by giving customised, unbiased advice tailored to their needs, providing motivation to make changes, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promotes awareness of our ecological impacts and solutions and provides a clear outline of consumer usage patterns. |
Environmental Education / Capicity Building Category
Browns Mart Community Arts
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $6,700 |
| Project Name: | Malak Garden - A Growing Community |
| Description: | Will be established in, around and under the Malak Shopping Centre. Volunteers will construct and plant the garden. Group members will run weekend sessions sharing knowledge: e.g. bed preparation, planting, pest management, composting, worm farming, harvesting, pruning and thinning. This will also contribute ideas about garden aesthetics from different cultural backgrounds. Produce will be shared among group members with some used in a proposed community dinners for the Malak area . |
Conservation Volunteers Australia
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $9,500 |
| Project Name: | Students for Conservation |
| Description: | Practical hands-on conservation experiences for high school students. Partners will be Kormilda College, Darwin High School, Landcare groups and Recreational Area Management Committees. CVA will provide a qualified team leader, insurance for participants, First Aid kit, vehicle, trailer, tools, risk assessment and safety briefing for students. Students will be taught correct use of hand tools for revegetation, activities to preserve and enhance native vegetation, water quality monitoring, flora, fauna and marine debris surveys. |
COOLmob - Environment Centre NT
| Region: | Northern Territory |
| Sub Region: | Northern Territory |
| Amount: | $13,800 |
| Project Name: | COOLmob Community Service Announcements |
| Description: | Produce 2-3 new COOLmob television Community Service Announcements to be aired free on commercial TV stations throughout northern and central Australia. The COOLmob set of 'EnviroGirl and EnviroBoy' TV advertisements is designed to educate the community about the key ways of saving energy and greenhouse gas emissions from our home energy and transport use. Feedback from audited households and the public confirm that the COOLmob TV CSAs are leading to real behaviour change in the community. |
Environment Centre of the NT
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | World Environment Day EXPO 2009 |
Coinciding with World Environment Day 2009 and building on the success of previous Expo's, an Expo will be held at a central Darwin location involving local community environment groups, local and Territory Government agencies, education institutions and small business enterprises. The Expo will include: Information stalls and displays, food and drink stalls (where possible providing recyclable containers), workshops/talks,World Environment Day Forum, performance/films, an exhibition of artwork by young artists exploring recycled product as a medium and childen's activities. |
Greening Australia NT
| Region: | Katherine |
| Sub Region: | Katherine |
| Amount: | $9,850 |
| Project Name: | St Josephs College Sinkhole Protection Project |
| Description: | Aims to protect and enhance a degraded sinkhole which has been impacted by human activity located on a karst limestone area within the school grounds. The project will be a partnership between St Joseph College and Greening Australia NT – Katherine. |
Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation
| Region: | Northern Territory |
| Sub Region: | Northern Territory |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Dave Lindner and the South Alligator River wetlands |
| Description: | Dave Lindner has worked in the wetlands of the mid South Alligator River catchment since the early 1970s. As a Conservation Commission ranger, Environmental Manager for a local Aboriginal association, manager of a buffalo domestication project, and self-taught environmental observer and activist, he has maintained a close and continuous engagement with environmental processes and management issues in the region. This project will record his accumulated knowledge and experience. |
(The) Institute for Aboriginal Development
| Region: | Alice Springs |
| Sub Region: | Alice Springs |
| Amount: | $12,000 |
| Project Name: | One Step from the river - native food and medicinal plants |
| Description: | This project will seek to plant and display plant species observable before settlement. There will be a large selection of food and medicinal plants recommended by traditional owners and Parks and Wildlife. Educational plaques will be alongside each plant. Visitors will be able to hire/rent a commentary from I.A.D, which will be down-loadable to ipods and mobile phones in various languages. |
Millennium Kids
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $5,000 |
| Project Name: | Carbon-Free National Youth Environment Conference |
| Description: | Millennium Kids has been invited by the Australian Association for Environmental Education to coordinate a youth environment conference (9-12th July) as part of their national biennial conference in Darwin 2008. This will be the first Carbon-Free Youth Conference in Australia. There will be activities in locations across Australia and then connect via video link. |
Oz Green
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Darwin Youth LEAD 2009 |
| Description: | Youth LEAD is an integrated transformative learning and leadership program for environmental sustainability that empowers young people to address critical social and ecological challenges and build sustainable futures. |
Environemntal Management / Stewardship Category
City of Palmerston
| Region: | Drawin |
| Sub Region: | Palmerston |
| Amount: | $5000 |
| Project Name: | City of Palmerston - Environmental Management Plan |
| Description: | Develop an EMP for the municipality. It will include management strategies for all lakes including weed control, water quality testing and flora/fauna surveys (Durack, Gunn and Marlows Lagoon), natural bush management in parks, the escarpment (vegetation regeneration, weed and erosion control), Mitchell Creek low flow area, stormwater retention basins, industrial waste and runoff to local waterways, Catalina and Archer weed control and water quality/runoff testing. |
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
| Region: | East Arnhem |
| Sub Region: | North Miwatj / Nhulunbuy |
| Amount: | $10,838 |
| Project Name: | Collaboration with external organisations facilitating sustainable management and use of the Dhimurru IPA |
| Description: | Continued promotion of collaboration with external organisations (e.g. Parks and Wildlife) on initiatives which will facilitate the sustainable management and use of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Continued liaison and communication with community groups, members, and other Aboriginal Land Management Groups. |
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
| Region: | East Arnhem |
| Sub Region: | North Miwatj / Nhulunbuy |
| Amount: | $25,554 |
| Project Name: | Monitoring of biodiversity and cultural values of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) |
| Description: | Continued monitoring of biodiversity and cultural values of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), including on ground actions as required. Increasing surveillance capacity and enforcement role managing impacts on land and seas in the Dhimurru IPA. |
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
| Region: | East Arnhem |
| Sub Region: | North Miwatj / Nhulunbuy |
| Amount: | $16,258 |
| Project Name: | Track and campsite upgrades inclusive of interpretive walks, fencing and site signs |
| Description: | Development of interpretive walks, installation of protective fencing, development and installation of site signs and the production of interpretive materials. Upgrade access tracks to designated recreation areas where erosion problems need to be addressed. Continue installation of appropriate campsite infrastructure in designated recreation areas on a prioritised basis. |
Gapuwiyak Community Inc
| Region: | East Arnhem |
| Sub Region: | North Miwatj / Gapuwiyak |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Lake Evella Project |
| Description: | In 2006 Gapuwiyak Community Inc approached Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to provide technical assistance on the quality of the water in Lake Evella and strategies to ensure good management of the lake and its surrounds.Together SKM, EWB and the Council prepared a management plan for the Council. The two highest priority actions are: revegetation of cleared areas around the lake, in particular closest to the lake, and installation of gross pollution traps at the outlet of each of the main drains. |
Greening Australia NT
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Coomalie |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Catchment awareness though signage |
| Description: | Erect road signs marking the catchments of the Adelaide and Finnis Rivers on subsidiary creeks and catchment boundaries.This simple and achievable action will raise awareness throughout the community of the landscape as a whole and dynamic entity. This will help raise awareness of the impacts of pollution and land degradation across the landscape. |
Motor Trades Association (NT) Inc
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Green Stamp Plus Eco-Efficiency Program |
| Description: | This program has successfully been implemented since 2003, in partnership with the Australian Government. The program is a unique model, drawing upon national networks to consolidate information relating to the Motor Trade Industries Environmental Impact. Looks at new ways to improve operations, reduce costs (energy efficiency), reduce materials consumption and waste while delivering economic, environmental and social benefits to business and the wider community. |
Re-thinking Waste Category
Keep Australia Beautiful NT
| Region: | Northern Territory |
| Sub Region: | Northern Territory |
| Amount: | $17,000 |
| Project Name: | 2008/09 Re-thinking Waste in Schools Challenge |
| Description: | Expansion of Challenge into its second year. Promotes awareness of litter abatement, resource recovery, minimising energy and water waste within all NT schools. Maintains interest and motivation, provides mentor support and service with a focus on achieving outcomes that are sustainable and strengthen the environmental culture in NT schools. |
Keep Australia Beautiful NT
| Region: | Northern Terrirory |
| Sub Region: | Northern Territory |
| Amount: | $15,000 |
| Project Name: | 2008-2009 Territory Tidy Towns Program |
| Description: | A key high profile social development flagship program that has been part of the NT for 30 years. Gives NT communities opportunity to boost pride, self esteem and improve quality of life. Encourages active contribution by communities to improve environment, health, waste management, enterprise, culture, heritage and social development . |
Wildlife Category
Ark Animal Welfare Service
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Darwin |
| Amount: | $8,000 |
| Project Name: | Building of Rehabilitation Cages at Living Skills Unit Darwin Correctional Facility |
| Description: | Wildlife Rescue Darwin and the Living Skills Unit at the Darwin Correctional Facility will build upon the existing program of caring for wildlife on site, including building rehabilitation cages and nest boxes used at the prison and for low cost cages to Wildlife Carers. Nest boxes encourage shared habitats between people and wildlife in suburban areas. |
Conservation Volunteers Australia
| Region: | East Arnhem |
| Sub Region: | Nhulunbuy |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Invasive Ant Surveys in East Arnhem Land |
| Description: | Invasive ant surveys at various locations around Nhulunbuy. In partnership with CSIRO, Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) teams will locate nesting colonies of Yellow Crazy Ants and African big-headed Ants for eradication once the teams have departed the area. This funding will cover the costs associated with CVA sending two teams to the region for two weeks at a time. |
Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation
| Region: | East Arnhem |
| Sub Region: | North Miwatj / Nhulunbuy |
| Amount: | $9,213 |
| Project Name: | Marine turtle rescue and ongoing feral animal and weed control, land rehabilitation, and fire management |
| Description: | Continue to participate in marine turtle rescue, recovery and collaborative research initiatives. Ongoing feral animal and weed control, land rehabilitation, fire management, track and campsite management and other on-ground activities as identified in the Dhimurru IPA Management Plan. |
RSPCA Katherine
| Region: | Katherine |
| Sub Region: | Katherine |
| Amount: | $1,808 |
| Project Name: | Feral cat management program |
| Description: | Purchase traps, catching nets and safety catch poles to help reduce the feral cat population in Katherine and surrounding regions. |
Tipperary Group of Stations
| Region: | Darwin |
| Sub Region: | Daly |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Eliminating feral animals and fencing of Pawpaw Springs |
| Description: | Pawpaw Springs is a 300ha rainforest patch located on Tipperary Station near the Daly River. The site is in an unfenced area open to cattle, pigs, horses and water buffalo. We will fence off a corridor of land which would include Pawpaw Springs and two smaller springs that maintain permanent rainforest patches and eliminate feral animals. |
(The) University of Sydney
| Region: | Northern Territory |
| Sub Region: | Northern Territory |
| Amount: | $10,000 |
| Project Name: | Teaching northern quolls to avoid toads to enhance their survival |
| Description: | We propose to train captive reared quolls to avoid cane toads in captivity, before releasing them in the wild. There are encouraging signs of recovery of quoll populations in some parts of QLD, in areas where toads occur, suggesting that quolls can learn to avoid toads. The research builds a new collaboration between the Territory Wildlife Park and researchers from the University of Sydney. |
Wildlife Rescue Service Katherine
| Region: | Katherine |
| Sub Region: | Katherine |
| Amount: | $1,293 |
| Project Name: | Injured Species Rescue Program |
| Description: | Purchase equipment to facilitate fast, stress free capture of injured wildlife. Bird trap, throw nets and small animal trap. |
