Applications open today for the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s Grassroots Grants Program, which provides $101,000 in funding for local community-based landscape management projects.
Have you got land on your farm that has limited productive value? There is now an opportunity to plant trees in these areas and obtain an income for the revegetation work.
Up to 85,000 hectares of Eyre Peninsula farming land that is increasingly being affected by poor drainage in the Cummins Wanilla Basin, will be open to priority infrastructure works thanks to $250,000 in funding secured by the Cummins Wanilla Basin Streamcare Group.
Landholders across the Eyre Peninsula will be able to collect free fox baits from the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board between mid-February and the end of March.
Images of feral deer captured near Kimba by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, have raised concerns that deer populations are establishing in eastern Eyre Peninsula and that sightings are not being reported.
Sustainable agriculture options for Eyre Peninsula farmers will continue to be supported by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board with the appointment of a new Sustainable Agriculture Project Officer.
A mild spring has provided great conditions for bushland biodiversity monitoring to be undertaken by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board – with help from National Parks and Wildlife Service SA – with results showing the benefits of fencing off vegetation and also the impact of drier conditions in the north.
Eyre Peninsula farmers looking to increase their soil carbon or try out new cropping or grazing management practices, can now apply for a demonstration grant with the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board.