Improving Feral Cat Management in the Kent-Frankland Subregion
Funding Body: State Government’s Feral Cat Management Grants
Funds: $230,000
Feral cats are one of the most threatening invasive species worldwide, with one feral cat in the Australian bush preying on up to 791 mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs and 371 invertebrates each year. In 2022 it was estimated that there were 2.8 million feral cats in Australia, covering 99.9% of the continent, with an average density of 1 feral cat every 4km2. This project aims to improve native species conservation in the Kent-Frankland subregion and surrounds through effective, integrated, and humane feral cat management and increased community awareness.
Greening the Great Southern
Funding Body: Landcare Australia
Funds: $17,600.00
Gillamii will collaborate with the local community, catchment groups, and shires to establish seedlings and promote environmental sustainability in the region. In collaboration with legacy funding donated by a retired local farmer facilitated through Regional Development Australia (RDA Great Southern Branch), this project aims to plant 20,500 seedlings across the Kent-Frankland region.
Together the Greening the Great Southern initiative honors this legacy through the power of landholder stewardship, contributing to the much-needed restoration and improvement of marginal lands in the Great Southern region.
Protecting and Restoring the Fitz-Stirling Priority Place
Funding Body: Australian Government under the Saving Native Species Program and South Coast NRM
Funds: $198,802.50
The project will conserve and restore the Fitz-Stirling Priority Place by implementing key management actions for its fauna, flora, threatened ecological communities and people. Through coordinated collaboration with partner organisations, the project will use a cross-tenure, landscape approach and build on concurrent Natural Heritage Trust investments.
A Reforestation Project- RDA Great Southern
Funding Body: Regional Development Australia Great Southern
Funds: $100,000
A legacy generously left by a retired Great Southern Farmer, greening the Great Southern region aiding much needed landscape restoration, beautification, and marginal land improvement. Gillamii will work with the local community and co-ordinate and collaborate with the catchment groups and local shires to establish seedlings and ensure positive outcomes for environmental and agricultural sustainability within the region. The funding enables a range of plantings to be undertaken by land managers including shelter belts, salt land mitigation and fodder systems, and native revegetation, while adequately supporting our regional NRM groups to execute these essential activities.
SaltDECK Native Revegetation Guide
Funding Body: State NRM
Funds: $34,046
The Saltland Genie WebApp contains a set of interactive tools designed to assist land managers understand salinity and utilise plant-based systems to remediate salt affected land. One of the resources integrated into the Genie is the SALTdeck, containing information on salt-tolerant pasture species and their potential uses.
Closing the Economic Yield Gap of Grain Legumes in WA
Funding Body: Grains Research and Development Corporation
Funds: $42,000
This project engages government, agribusiness, researchers and end-users to work collaboratively to address the poor rate of adoption of grain legumes in WA farming systems.
Mapping the way Forward: NRM in the Kent-Frankland
Funding Body: State NRM
Funds: $27,550
This project will develop a series of protocols enabling organisations to process and consolidate project data, digitisation of NRM in the Kent-Frankland region. Good data management allows organisations to establish baselines, benchmarks, and goals to keep moving forward.
Producer Demonstration Site (PDS): Productive Saltland Pastures for Southern WA
Funding Body: Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA)
Funds: $145,619.00
This PDS Project aims to improve members’ knowledge and skills in the establishment, management, and benefits (profitability, productivity, and sustainability) of salt-tolerant forage systems on moderately salt-affected land.
Community, Carbon & Conservation
Funding Body: State NRM
Funds: $226,980
The sub-regions of the Kent-Frankland and North Stirlings-Pallinup are located within the internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot of south-western Australia.
Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands (SGSL)
Funding Body: SGSL
Funds: $23,000
Gillamii research extension project for Sustainable Grazing on Saline Lands (SGSL). SGSL were conducting a series of research projects designed to develop options for livestock production from saline