Biodiversity Fund Round Two OPEN
The Biodiversity Fund is an ongoing program under the Australian Government's Land Sector Package of the Clean Energy Future plan. The overall objectives of the Biodiversity Fund are to help land managers establish, manage and enhance native vegetation on their land, increase our stores of carbon in the landscape and, in so doing, maintain ecosystem function and improve the resilience of our ecosystems to the impacts of climate change.
The Biodiversity Fund's targeted investment approach provides an opportunity to focus on environments that are rich in biodiversity but facing increasing pressures. Such pressures include loss of habitat connectivity through land use change and declining ecosystem function due to fragmentation and proliferation of invasive species.
The Biodiversity Fund Round Two 2013-14 will invest directly in targeted locations that are considered nationally important owing to their level of species richness and endemism, their potential to support wildlife corridors and their potential to store carbon in the landscape. Many of these areas are threatened by fragmentation and/or invasive species and will benefit from efforts to reconnect the landscape and maintain healthy vegetation.
Target areas
The Biodiversity Fund Round Two: 2013-14 will focus on projects that improve the condition, extent and connectivity of native vegetation across Australia, in the following areas:
- The Central Australian Connection
- Tasmania (excluding Macquarie Island)
- South-west Western Australia
- South Australia - Victoria Connection
- Greater Border Ranges region
- Urban waterways and Coastal environments
