Environment Grants Benefit Jandakot Community
Seven community-based groups in the Jandakot area will share in more than $68,000 of funding made available under the State Government’s Environmental Community Grants scheme.
Joe Francis MLA, Member for Jandakot, said the Environmental Community Grants program assisted groups and individuals in ‘hands-on’ projects that would have lasting benefits and encourage other people to become involved in local environmental issues.
“The Jandakot area has a range of very active community-based environmental care programs. I am delighted some of these groups such as the Wetlands Education Centre and Dr Eddy Wajon’s Friends of Ken Hurst Park have been recognised through the grants program. They are great people doing great environmental work.”
Grants are provided across eight categories: biodiversity conservation; sustainable catchment management; fauna rescue and rehabilitation; regional parks; Bush Forever; interpretation and sustainable recreation in natural areas; support for major conservation and environment organisations; and protection of high value areas by landholders on private land.
The grants are administered by the Department of Environment and Conservation on behalf of the State Government. The seven grants include:
$35,450 in two grants to Murdoch Environmental Restoration Group [MERG] for Banksia Woodland Trail restoration and interpretive signage and for protection and restoration of Carnaby's cockatoo roosting sites;
- $14,410 to Friends of Ken Hurst Park for revegetation of Ken Hurst Park;
- $7,194 to the Wetlands Conservation Society to revegetate the North Lake/Frog Swamp linkage;
- $5,406 to Friends of Cockburn Wetlands Education Centre for extension of a seed production area at Bibra Lake;
- $2,000 to the Friends of North Lake for weed removal and rehabilitation of the lake bed, North Lake;
- $2,000 to the Friends of Forrestdale to remove weeds, mainly veltgrass and lovegrass, from a section of Bush Forever Site 342 in the Jandakot Regional Park; and
- $1,850 to Native ARC, Bibra Lake for fauna medication and x-rays.
