Close to $140,000 will go towards landscape management and environmental protection projects on Eyre Peninsula, under the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s Grassroots Grants program.
Recent analysis of the state of Eyre Peninsula’s underground water sources has confirmed the urgency required to secure the region’s future water security.
Targeted interventions at 25 priority Hooded Plover nesting territories on Eyre Peninsula has resulted in increased success for the survival of these threatened birds.
More than $110,000 is available for Eyre Peninsula residents to put towards community-based landscape management and environmental protection projects across the region, under the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s Grassroots Grants.
Thousands of shorebirds have been counted by volunteers and Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board staff across the vast Eyre Peninsula region during the past month, contributing to local knowledge as well as a national program.
The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s annual fox bait distribution days have been finalised for this year, with landholders encouraged to collect baits and work on their control strategies.
A new video has been released by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, highlighting the region’s valuable saltmarsh communities that it has been working to protect through a range of management actions including monitoring of threatened Hooded Plovers.
After four-and-a-half years, the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s Regenerative Agriculture Program has one last grant available for landholders to trial a multi-species cover crop.
Popular coastal camping areas across the Eyre Peninsula are ear-marked for conservation management works over the next three years under an ‘Eyes on Eyre’ project led by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board in conjunction with Regional Development Australia Eyre Peninsula and other partners.