National Competitive Grants Program National Competitive Grants Since 2002 the ARC has awarded funding Australian funding for koala projects, including Program Australian Research Ongoing to nine projects involving research directly – Government projects on koala genetic diversity and Council (ARC) and indirectly related to koalas. disease. South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan 2009 2031 – commenced July 2009 Commenced/ 2010 SPP 2/10 commenced May 2010 ongoing SEQ Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory Provisions (SPRP) commenced May 2010 Strategic-level planning instruments Develop planning instruments to target Prioritise conservation efforts in such as structure plans and master koala populations under pressure due South East Queensland using Qld plans must meet the requirements of to development activities and to legislative planning processes the SPP, including by contributing to a regulate that development. net increase in koala habitat in SEQ. 2011 Ongoing SEQ Local Government Authorities must assess development proposals in specified koala habitat areas to achieve the koala conservation outcomes specified in the SPRP. 2012 Ongoing Planned fieldwork will assist identification of 2010 Planned priority populations. Expert workshop to identify Priority populations identified through 2011 Ongoing priority populations in South Identify priority populations within the survey. NSW Coast and Snowy Mountains region. Survey and monitoring of key populations Regions to continue, aiming to improve knowledge 2012 Ongoing of distribution and abundance, and of population trends. Desktop assessment of koala Wildlife Commenced/ Mapped spatial outputs to identify key 2011 ongoing priority populations and threats. Atlas records over last four decades Prioritise populations on the mid NSW together with results of local council Complete desktop assessment and and far north coast NSW Koala POM under SEPP 44 to 2012 Ongoing determine priorities for the mid and north determine priority areas and actions. coast of NSW.
National Competitive Grants Program – Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Government National Competitive Grants Program funding for koala projects, including projects on koala genetic diversity and disease. Ongoing Since 2002 the ARC has awarded funding to nine projects involving research directly and indirectly related to koalas. Prioritise conservation efforts in South East Queensland using legislative planning processes Qld Develop planning instruments to target koala populations under pressure due to development activities and to regulate that development. 2010 Commenced/ ongoing South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan 2009 – 2031 commenced July 2009 SPP 2/10 commenced May 2010 SEQ Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory Provisions (SPRP) commenced May 2010 2011 Ongoing Strategic-level planning instruments such as structure plans and master plans must meet the requirements of the SPP, including by contributing to a net increase in koala habitat in SEQ. SEQ Local Government Authorities must assess development proposals in specified koala habitat areas to achieve the koala conservation outcomes specified in the SPRP. 2012 Ongoing Expert workshop to identify priority populations in South Coast and Snowy Mountains Regions NSW Identify priority populations within the region. 2010 Planned Planned fieldwork will assist identification of priority populations. 2011 Ongoing Priority populations identified through survey. 2012 Ongoing Survey and monitoring of key populations to continue, aiming to improve knowledge of distribution and abundance, and of population trends. Prioritise populations on the mid and far north coast NSW NSW Desktop assessment of koala Wildlife Atlas records over last four decades together with results of local council Koala POM under SEPP 44 to determine priority areas and actions. 2011 Commenced/ ongoing Mapped spatial outputs to identify key priority populations and threats. 2012 Ongoing Complete desktop assessment and determine priorities for the mid and north coast of NSW.