The Limestone Coast Landscape Board is offering small incentive grants to undertake habitat conservation activities that protect, enhance or establish native vegetation on private land.

The funding will support on-ground works for biodiversity conservation outcomes, where there are primary productivity co-benefits. Incentive funding will be prioritised towards projects that will contribute to one or more of the following objectives:

• Enhance habitat resilience by managing the threats affecting remnant vegetation (including protecting paddock trees and wetlands), encouraging natural regeneration or replanting local species within patches of native vegetation.
• Creating buffers around priority areas of habitat or enhancing or creating links between habitats or creating links between habitats.
• Revegetating cleared areas to increase the extent of available habitats in the region, reduce the effects of fragmentation and/or support nearby habitats.
• Implementing recovery actions to address threatened species and threatened ecological communities listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act (1999) and/or South Australia's National Parks and Wildlife (NPW) Act 1972.

Eligibility

The following eligibility criteria will need to be met. The applicant will need to:

• Be an individual, volunteer, community organisation or other body.
• Be a legal entity or be sponsored by a legal entity.
• Be undertaking a project on private land.
• Where required, attach a Sponsor Support letter from a sponsor to the application, agreeing to be financially and legally responsible for this project.
• Have the agreement of any partner/s and provide a letter of support with the application form.
• Ensure that proposed project activities are not a component of any other funding agreement.
• Ensure that written approval for any works undertaken on land owned by another person/entity, other than the applicant, is attached to the application.
• Be undertaking project activities within the Limestone Coast landscape region (See below for a map of the region).
• Hold a minimum of $1 million in public liability insurance.

You are not eligible to apply if:

• You have an overdue final report and acquittal for a previous grant from state/territory or Australian Government agencies or had funding revoked due to performance and/or integrity reasons.
• You are one of the following – political organisation, or government agency.

• Phone: 08 8429 7550
• Email: LandscapeSA.LCLandscapeBoardGrants@sa.gov.au