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Round One application receipt lists

If you recently submitted a Biodiversity Fund application and would like to confirm it has been received, please use one of the following links:

Applications lodged by email or hard copy

If you lodged your application by email or in hardcopy, and would like to confirm your application has been received, please use this list to confirm that your Biodiversity Fund application has been received.

• Email and hard copy application receipt list (PDF - 152KB) |  (Word - 161KB)

Applications lodged online

If you lodged your application online, please use this list to confirm that your Biodiversity Fund application has been received.

• Online application receipt list (PDF - 548KB) |  (Word - 106KB)

Round One 2011-12 Grant application guidelines

These Interim Grant Application Guidelines - Round One 2011-12 introduce the Biodiversity Fund, which forms part of the Australian Government's Clean Energy Future Plan. The guidelines outline the objectives, investment priorities, selection criteria and application process for the first round of the Biodiversity Fund.

Downloads

• Program guidelines - Biodiversity Fund Grant application guidelines round one 2011-12 (PDF - 686KB) | HTML
• Fact sheet - Biodiversity Fund Round One 2011-12 (PDF - 287KB)

• Draft Funding Agreement - Biodiversity Fund Draft Funding Agreement (PDF - 811KB) |   (Word - 462KB)
  This Biodiversity Fund Funding Agreement is in DRAFT form only, and will be subject to amendment. The Department reserves the right to amend the draft agreement, including tailoring it to meet the requirements of individual projects. If you have any questions regarding the terms and conditions of the draft agreement, we recommend you obtain legal advice before submitting your application.

Eligibility

Who is eligible to apply?

Biodiversity Fund grants are targeted towards individual land managers, groups of land managers working in partnership or organisations working on behalf of multiple land managers.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be a legal entity, for instance:
  • an individual
  • an incorporated association or cooperative society
  • a body corporate (company)
  • an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander corporation, council or incorporated association
  • a Government-related entity.
• declare that they have, or are able to obtain, the written consent of any organisation that the applicant partners with or represents on the project, including traditional owners.

What is an eligible project?

To be eligible, a project must:

• Not include activities that:
  • have been completed
  • are being undertaken outside Australia or its territories
  • are substantially the same as activities completely funded through other initiatives or programs.
• Involve financial and/or in-kind contribution from the public land owner if it is located on public land. For the purposes of these Guidelines, 'public land' means land owned by a government entity or government related entity except where such land is leasehold land (i.e. the subject of a 99 year lease or a pastoral lease).
• Involve activities that are in addition to activities that:
  • form part of the business as usual (environmental stewardship) practices of the land managers and/or land owners
  • are required by law.

Note that applicants participating or seeking to participate in the carbon market via the Carbon Farming Initiative will be subject to obligations and criteria as set out in the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (Cth) and the associated regulations.