Key Supporters

Supporters

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Community volunteers: A number of local community members donate many hours of their time to a range of biodiversity conservation activities across our region. Working closely with our staff, the volunteers grow native plants, undertake revegetation, monitor threatened plant and animal species, and report sightings of native wildlife. Their participation is invaluable to our work.

Envirofund: An Australian Government program that is the local action component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It helps communities undertake local projects aimed at conserving biodiversity and promoting sustainable resource use. Community groups and individuals can apply for grants of up to $50 000 (GST inclusive) to carry out on-ground and other actions to target local problems. The Envirofund has funded specific on-ground works related to our biodiversity conservation programs, including fencing critical threatened species habitat and revegetation.

Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management Board: A regional board that provides an integrated response to management of Eyre Peninsula's natural resources including soil, water, pest plant and animal control, and biodiversity. The board is developing a comprehensive regional NRM plan under the Natural Resources Management Act 2004.

• Friends of Coffin Bay National Park
• Friends of Gawler Ranges National Park
• Friends of Great Victoria Desert Parks
• Friends of Kimba District Parks
• Friends of Lake Newland and Waldegrave Islands
• Friends of St Peter and St Francis Island Parks
• Friends of Sceale Bay
• Friends of Southern Eyre Peninsula Parks
• Friends of Streaky Bay District Parks
• Friends of the Whyalla Conservation Park.

Green Corps: An Australian Government youth development and environmental training program for young people aged between 17 and 20 years. The program provides young people with the opportunity to volunteer their time and effort to conserve, preserve and restore Australia's natural environment and cultural heritage. Past Green Corps teams based in Port Lincoln and Ceduna have been involved in seed collection, revegetation, weed and pest animal control, fencing, sand dune rehabilitation, and monitoring wildlife including threatened plants and animals.

Local land-holders: Many land-holders across Eyre Peninsula and the Far West have contributed their time and often land to biodiversity conservation activities including revegetation, fencing significant habitat, establishing Heritage Agreements and reporting sightings of native wildlife. Their participation is invaluable to our work.

Natural Heritage Trust: An Australian Government program set up in 1997 to help restore and conserve Australia's environment and natural resources. The trust has provided funding to thousands of community groups and organisations for environmental and natural resource management projects.

Nature Foundation SA: A non-political, non-profit and mainly voluntary organisation working to conserve and promote our natural biodiversity. The foundation raises funds for on-the-ground projects, land conservation, education programs and vital research. Nature Foundation SA is a long term supporter of the Eyre Peninsula Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo recovery project and other local threatened species projects. In 2005 the foundation's Threatened Species Bushfire Appeal raised significant funds for conservation activities in the area affected by the Black Tuesday bushfire.

Threatened Species Network: A partnership between WWF-Australia and the Australian Government that works with the community to help stop the declining numbers of our native plants and animals, particularly those listed as threatened. The network provides information and advice, links between interested groups and individuals, and administers a community grants program. Numerous local projects have been funded through the network and WWF-Australia including threatened plant activities, Brush-tailed Bettong recovery, and the Eyre Peninsula Southern Emu-wren survey and action plan.

Wildlife Conservation Fund: An annual grant fund through the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Council for projects and research concerned with the conservation of natural biodiversity within terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems. The fund has supported specific wildlife conservation projects in our region, including population and nest monitoring of Eyre Peninsula Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos.