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.
The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board is proud to announce that 20 projects across the region - to be delivered by a wide array of community groups, volunteers or farming groups - have been selected for funding under its Grassroots Grants program.
Eyre Peninsula landholders have the opportunity to learn about grazing management and how it can improve their farming business and property ecosystem at an upcoming workshop.
How has the eastern Eyre Peninsula’s threatened saltmarsh vegetation changed over the past 25 years? That is about to be discovered as the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board works with the Department for Environment and Water and University of Adelaide to re-survey these areas.
There’s more to olives than being part of a cheese platter – they can actually be a pest plant with the seeds being dispersed by birds which can lead to unwanted olive trees invading native vegetation.
With bird scopes, binoculars and cameras at the ready, Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board staff and volunteers have eagerly begun monitoring Hooded Plover beach nesting territories on the Eyre Peninsula.
The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board is asking locals to get involved in its citizen science projects, in particular it’s looking for sightings of threatened birds and echidnas.
Applications are now open for volunteers and local community organisations to access funding opportunities through the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s new $100,000 Grassroots Grants program.