Click on the links below to access the guidelines and application form. These documents compliment each other and should be read together.
Funding Guidelines - click here (pdf version)
Funding Guidelines - click here (Word version)
Application Form - printable version click here (you can print and write on this form)
Application Form - Word version click here (you can type on this form and save it to your computer)
What’s available?
The WCMA has $4.4 million for on-ground works and training aimed at improving the Catchment’s natural resources for 2006.
Who can apply?
- Individuals, groups and organisations in the Western Catchment can apply.
- Projects must be targeted at land within the Western Catchment boundary.
- Joint projects with neighbouring Catchment Management Authorities that operate across regional boundaries are encouraged.
What kind of projects will be funded?
Projects that best contribute towards the Western Catchment Management Authority’s Management Targets will be funded. Click here to read about some of our funded projects.
The Western Catchment Management Authority has been established to work with the community to improve the way natural resources (land, vegetation, rivers, groundwater and biodiversity) are managed.
Six Management Targets will be used to measure how well natural resources are being managed.
Catchment Program and
2006 Allocation
|
Management Target |
Examples
(These are suggestions only) |
Sustainable Agriculture
$818,000 |
sustainable agriculture management practice carried out by 50% of landholders by 2015 |
- Managing total grazing pressure,
- improved grazing methods,
- no-till farming,
- grazing/farming management workshops
|
Native Pasture Recovery
$1.6 million |
maintain or rehabilitate one million hectares of native pasture vegetation communities by 2015 |
- invasive native scrub control,
- rehabilitating scalds,
- rangeland re-seeding,
- soil erosion control
|
Pest Management
$490,000 |
no increase in the number of species or extent of pest weeds and animals above current levels |
- control of
- mesquite,
- african boxthorn,
- cacti,
- pigs
|
Riverine Habitat
$564,000 |
habitat improved on 20% of priority river, floodplain and wetland areas by 2015 |
- alternative stock water points,
- protection fencing,
- controlling aquatic weeds,
- revegetating riverine areas
|
Water Quality
$643,000 |
Water quality and salinity levels meeting ANZECC * criteria for greater than 95% of the time by 2015 |
- Sediment control structures,
- stormwater management,
- training on fertiliser use,
- sewage management,
- chemical waste management,
- increasing ground cover.
|
High Value Ecological Community
$312,000 |
Within 3 years of Catchment Action Plan approval that ecological communities of high conservation value are identified and within 8 years of the Catchment Action Plan approval that they are adequately protected through negotiation with landholders.
|
- wetland grazing management,
- riparian rehabilitation works,
- mound spring protection
- voluntary conservation agreements
|
* Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality provides a framework for water resource management.
Those projects considered to best contribute towards meeting the Western Catchment’s Management Targets will receive funding.
2005 Incentives
Click here to see details of 2005 funding
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