SA native vegetation grants: How you can help give nature a helping hand on your land!
Does your land have existing native vegetation that you’d like to restore and protect for future generations? You may be eligible to apply for a share in $9.1m of native vegetation grants. Improving and conserving nature on your land helps enhance our state’s biodiversity for a sustainable future.
What can I use the grant funding for?
Funding can be used for works including fencing to exclude stock, pest plant and animal control to improve the condition of native vegetation and wildlife habitat, and revegetation. Native Vegetation Officers can provide advice and guidance on which activities could be funded for your property.
Two types of grants are available:
Nature Restoration Grants are now open for properties in the Northern and Yorke Peninsula, SA Arid Lands, Eyre Peninsula and Hills and Fleurieu regions. These are for larger projects, with at least three hectares of native vegetation, and works to improve native vegetation condition over 5 – 10 years. Applications close 8 November 2025.
Heritage Agreement Incentive Grants are for smaller projects, with at least one hectare of native vegetation, and works across 1 – 5 years. Applications are open to landholders across South Australia until 30 June 2026, but early enquiries and applications are encouraged.
Make a real difference for biodiversity
These grants recognise the important role that landowners can play in protecting and preserving our state’s precious natural biodiversity. Grant funded activities will improve habitat for conservation-significant wildlife, including birds like Malleefowl and Southern Whiteface, animals like the Pygmy Bluetongue , and ecosystems like She-oak grassy woodlands and Peppermint Box grassy woodlands.
Funding for these grants comes from offset payments by developers like renewable energy companies, who must offset any loss of native vegetation from their projects.
The two previous rounds of Restoration Grants resulted in 19 successful grants sharing in $10 million, to protect and restore more than 26,000 hectares of native vegetation across the state. In addition, there have been 18 successful Incentive Grants sharing in $0.7 million.
Find out more and apply
Visit Department for Environment and Water - Funding and support or call the Native Vegetation Council on (08) 8383 9777 or email NVC.haprogram@sa.gov.au.