The Environmental Trust have recently announced $8 million in funding under the Community Bush Regeneration Large Project Stream, a subset of the Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation program. The funding will provide grants for local community groups to undertake large-scale bush regeneration projects, over a six year period.

Grants of between $200,000 and $250,000 are available.Projects should be designed to last for six years, and may be undertaken on public or private land (or a combination of both).

The specific objectives of the Community Bush Regeneration stream are to:

• Regenerate degraded natural areas, including bushland, riverbanks, degraded waterways, and rare/endangered ecosystems;
• Improve the ongoing health and resilience of important ecosystems and habitats of rare and endangered flora and fauna;
• Improve ecological connectivity within and between natural areas; and
• Improve the capacity of, and resource local community groups to protect, restore and enhance the environment by strengthening local community organisations whose primary purpose is to undertake environmental works in their local area.

Applications close at 5.00 pm on the 14th February 2012.

Further information is available on the Environmental Trust website, at: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/grants/BushRegeneration.htm [1]