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What is the Biodiversity Fund?

The Biodiversity Fund will invest around $946m over the next six years to help land managers store carbon, enhance biodiversity and build greater environmental resilience across the Australian landscape.

To do this, it will fund eligible land managers for activities which restore, manage and better protect biodiversity on public and private land. It will also provide support to land managers who wish to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the new carbon market. The Biodiversity Fund will provide support to establishing new carbon stores or better managing carbon stores of existing native habitat.

The Biodiversity Fund will invest in three main areas:

• Biodiverse plantings
  • Funding will help land managers expand native habitat on their property through planting mixed vegetation species appropriate to the region. This will help build landscape resilience and connectivity.
• Protecting and enhancing existing native vegetation
  • Funding will support land managers to protect, manage and enhance existing native vegetation in high conservation areas on their land for its carbon storage and biodiversity benefits.
• Managing threats to biodiversity
  • Funding will control the threat of invasive pests and weeds in a connected landscape.

What type of projects can get funding from the Biodiversity Fund?

The Biodiversity Fund will support projects that, for example:

• establish new biodiverse plantings of mixed species that establish and re-connect well functioning native ecosystems
• revegetate the landscape to improve connections between remnant native vegetation across public and private lands, particularly in the fragmented rural, coast and peri-urban landscapes of south eastern and south western Australia and Tasmania
• restore native habitats in largely intact landscapes in northern Australia and/or on the rangelands, as well as those in peri-urban and coastal catchments in any part of Australia
• enhance the condition of native vegetation adjacent to existing key assets such as World Heritage Areas, Ramsar sites or protected areas in the National Reserve System
• establish and restore native wetland and waterway habitats, particularly on already cleared lands or lands predominately occupied by non-native vegetation
• reduce the impacts of invasive species across connected landscapes.