KI Grassroots Grants in 2023-24

Successful Grassroots Grants projects in 2023-24 include:

Project name	Applicant	Outcomes
Arum Lily Control, Lashmar Conservation Park	Friends of Dudley Peninsula Parks and Wildlife	To continue the eradication of arum lilies in Lashmar Conservation Park through volunteer working bees.
1.5 km of fencing to protect shelterbelt	Landholder in Seddon	To protect burnt native vegetation within a shelter belt from further damage from grazing pressure of both sheep and cattle.
Overcoming nutritional barriers to liming	Timber Creek Landcare Group	To demonstrate granular and foliar treatments to rectify manganese deficiencies incurred following liming acidic soil and promote the results to the agricultural community.
Clay spreading non-wetting infertile sand	Landholder at Stokes Bay	To improve soil health and reduce non-wetting sands and soil nutrient leaching into waterways and dams through clay spreading and planting perennial pasture over 40 ha.
Saving critically endangered Beyeria bush pea from extinction by weed invasion and kangaroo browsing	Threatened Plant Action Group	To restore critical habitat of Beyeria bush-pea by weed control of bridal veil and protection from KI kangaroo grazing in Beyeria Conservation Park and along priority roadsides.
Improving KI's weather station network for farmers and communities benefit	Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated	To install a weather station with a soil probe on western KI to continue the network of weather stations on KI to benefit producers on western KI with more accurate knowledge of weather conditions and soil moisture and to enable risk modelling.
Planting and protecting seedlings for shelterbelts	Landholder at Middle River	To plant 1000 native plants over 1 ha and protect them with guards to build shelterbelts and improve biodiversity and provide shelter for stock.
Deep Creek fencing	Landholder on Dudley Peninsula	To protect Deep Creek with 900 m of fencing to protect native vegetation, prevent water erosion and improve water quality and stock management.
Perennial pasture	Landholder at Cape Borda	To sow 40 ha of perennial pasture to rehabilitate degraded areas by stabilising soils with perennials pasture. This will reduce soil erosion, improve soil fertility and accelerate carbon storage.
Revegetation	Landholder at Cassini	To replant 1.8 ha of native vegetation burnt in the 2019-20 bushfires with 800 native plants to improve biodiversity.