KI Grassroots Grants 2025-26

Successful Grassroots Grants projects in 2025-26 include:

Project name	Applicant	Outcomes
Little Friends of Parks	Friends of Dudley Peninsula Parks and Wildlife	To support the creation of an environmental education initiative at Kangaroo Island Community Education (KICE) Penneshaw Campus for students aged 9–12 to grow 500-1000 native seedlings per year to plant in local conservation areas.
KICE Marine Plastic Debris to Products Program	Kangaroo Island Community Education Kingscote Campus	To support the creation of an environmental initiative where students collect marine plastic and repurpose it into products using a Precious Plastic Melbourne Machine.
Shoal Bay coastal reserve revegetation project	Birdlife Kangaroo Island	To restore native bird species coastal habitat, reduce erosion and prevent weed invasion through planting 580 native plants at two community field days at Shoal Bay.
Revegetating the old Remarkable Rocks walking trail that burnt in the 2020 bushfires	Friends of Parks KI Western Districts	To revegetate the old Remarkable Rocks walking trail in Flinders Chase National Park with KICE student assistance through planting and protecting 600 native plants.
Habitat restoration of eastern shore of Salt Lake	Landholder in Wisanger	To remove African boxthorn from 0.5ha around the perimeter of a salt lake and replant with 100 native plants.
Tickled Pink Sheoak Project 2025	Landholder in Stokes Bay	To plant and protect 100 drooping sheoaks over 0.15 ha to increase glossy black-cockatoo feeding habitat and benefit other native wildlife.
Fencing remanent vegetation and revegetating the land	Landholder in Newland	To protect and restore remnant native vegetation in shelterbelts with 3 km fencing and planting of 2,000 native plants.
Fencing remnant vegetation for protection	Landholder in Gosse	To protect remnant native vegetation from stock with 3km of fencing.
Establishing perennial pasture	Landholder in Cassini	To establish 40 ha of perennial pastures to reduce soil and water erosion and fertiliser run-off into Snakey Creek.
Confinement yards to protect soil, native vegetation and pastures from grazing over summer and autumn	Landholder on Dudley Peninsula	To construct four containment yards for 4,000 ewes to reduce erosion, protect perennial pastures, protect and increase native vegetation, improve the water quality and soil infiltration into soils, improve animal health and business efficiency.
Perennial Pasture Establishment	Landholder in Newland	To establish 50 ha of perennial pasture to lower the water table, reduce erosion and increase productivity.