There is a well documented, continuing and catastrophic decline in the abundance of small mammals across northern Australia due to the interaction of altered fire regimes, feral cats and introduced large herbivores. AWC intends to reverse this decline over a 100,000 ha area of Wongalara Sanctuary Restoring 100,000 ha of by reducing the frequency and extent of late dry season fires and by removing tropical woodlands by Northern Biodiversity Fund the impacts of large introduced herbivores. This approach has successfully $171,600.00 establishing herbivore free Territory Round 1 reversed the decline of small mammals at AWC's Mornington Sanctuary area (Kimberley). As Wongalara is immediately adjacent to Arnhem Land, successful restoration of ecosystem function here will be immediately relevant to management of an additional 9.7million ha that is continuing to suffer declines. This project will address a significant threat to the biodiversity and habitat values within the riparian area of the Rocky River, and its tributaries. This threat is the invasion of Cats Claw Creeper, which is spreading across native Caring for Our Riparian Vegetation vegetation along the river, often choking and killing large trees and shrubs. New South Country Protection on the Rocky Many of these trees that have been killed have then been washed out of the $19,863.64 Wales Community Action River NSW river bank during flood events leaving large areas vulnerable to erosion. The Grants 0910 Cats Claw Creeper is reducing the availability of large habitat trees along the river and flowering food trees such as bottlebrush, reducing the habitat values in the riaprian zone. The impact of feral cat predation has increased on the south coast of WA following years of large scale fox control. This project will continue aerial baiting trials to reduce the threat of predation by feral cats and foxes in key Saving EPBC listed conservation reserves, reducing critical threats to over 300,000ha of key Western Caring for Our species by controlling habitat of 18 EPBC listed fauna species including the Critically Endangered $92,000.00 Australia Country BP 1213 introduced predators Gilbert's Potoroo and the Endangered Western Ground Parrot. Monitoring and evaluation will be based upon a MERI framework to demonstrate the efficacy of feral cat control methods and the effect that implementation of these management activities has on the recovery of EPBC listed fauna species
Restoring 100,000 ha of tropical woodlands by establishing herbivore free area Northern Territory Biodiversity Fund Round 1 There is a well documented, continuing and catastrophic decline in the abundance of small mammals across northern Australia due to the interaction of altered fire regimes, feral cats and introduced large herbivores. AWC intends to reverse this decline over a 100,000 ha area of Wongalara Sanctuary by reducing the frequency and extent of late dry season fires and by removing the impacts of large introduced herbivores. This approach has successfully reversed the decline of small mammals at AWC's Mornington Sanctuary (Kimberley). As Wongalara is immediately adjacent to Arnhem Land, successful restoration of ecosystem function here will be immediately relevant to management of an additional 9.7million ha that is continuing to suffer declines. $171,600.00 Riparian Vegetation Protection on the Rocky River NSW New South Wales Caring for Our Country Community Action Grants 0910 This project will address a significant threat to the biodiversity and habitat values within the riparian area of the Rocky River, and its tributaries. This threat is the invasion of Cats Claw Creeper, which is spreading across native vegetation along the river, often choking and killing large trees and shrubs. Many of these trees that have been killed have then been washed out of the river bank during flood events leaving large areas vulnerable to erosion. The Cats Claw Creeper is reducing the availability of large habitat trees along the river and flowering food trees such as bottlebrush, reducing the habitat values in the riaprian zone. $19,863.64 Saving EPBC listed species by controlling introduced predators Western Australia Caring for Our Country BP 1213 The impact of feral cat predation has increased on the south coast of WA following years of large scale fox control. This project will continue aerial baiting trials to reduce the threat of predation by feral cats and foxes in key conservation reserves, reducing critical threats to over 300,000ha of key habitat of 18 EPBC listed fauna species including the Critically Endangered Gilbert's Potoroo and the Endangered Western Ground Parrot. Monitoring and evaluation will be based upon a MERI framework to demonstrate the efficacy of feral cat control methods and the effect that implementation of these management activities has on the recovery of EPBC listed fauna species $92,000.00
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