25th Anniversary Landcare Grants now open in the New England

25 Sep 2014

 

24 September 2014

 

FEDERAL Member for New England Barnaby Joyce said Landcare and other community groups in the Electorate area will be able to access a helping hand with the launch of the 25th Anniversary Landcare Grants 2014-15 as part of the Australian Government’s National Landcare Programme.

 

Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, and Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, are pleased to officially launch the 25th Anniversary Landcare Grants 2014-15 at the 2014 National Landcare Conference, saying the grant round was a fitting way to help celebrate 25 years of Landcare.

 

“The best way to help celebrate Landcare’s 25th anniversary is by supporting land-carers in the New England Electorate to do what they do best,” Mr Joyce said.

 

“Up to $5 million is available through competitive grants of up to $20,000 to support local Landcare and other local natural resource management groups to help protect our local environment and look after the land,” he said.

 

“We are looking to harness the expertise and enthusiasm of not just Landcare groups but the natural resource management community, Indigenous communities, farmers, fishers and other land and sea managers in the New England Electorate.

 

“Applications are now open and close on 20 October, so I encourage our local natural resource management community to come up with great ideas that will help protect our land and natural assets, and to get involved by getting their applications in.”

 

Mr Joyce also reconfirmed the Australian Government’s commitment to ensuring 20 per cent of Australian Government investment made through the regional natural resource management organisations will be directed towards local projects and activities that are delivered by the community, including Landcare, under the National Landcare Programme’s regional stream.

 

This is a commitment of $90 million over four years for small, on-ground, practical environmental projects.

 

“This means that farmers, Landcare and other community groups in our region will have access to funding on an annual basis so that they can continue to undertake important on-ground works in our local communities,” Mr Joyce said.

 

For more information about the National Landcare Programme 25th Anniversary Landcare Grants 2014-15 go to www.nrm.gov.au

 

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