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Heritage Estates

Heritage Estates is an important tract of natural vegetation that contains a wide range of species and allows them to travel between Booderee National Park and other habitats. Developing it would isolate the species within Booderee, making it a much less healthy habitat and ecosystem.

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Eastern Bristlebird

Helmet Ridge in NSW is grassy open forest and wetland habitat that is home to the threatened Eastern Bristlebird. Environmental weeds and the resulting reduction of tall native grasses has made their survival in the area increasingly difficult.

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Caught on Camera

Caught on Camera is an innovative NatureWatch project that involves working with local community groups, land holders and contracted professional ecologists to carry out community based, long term monitoring of wildlife using motion-sensing cameras. The project involves bringing these groups together to develop the project objectives and methods and train volunteers in the use of remote sensing cameras...

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Endangered Pomaderris Plants

two endangered Australian plant species will be secured for the future. The best method for growing these two Pomaderris plants will be determined, and resources of seeds and plants from these species will be built up.

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Feather-leaved Banksia of WA

Rising from the Ashes - the Feather-leaved Banksia - the critically endangered Feather-leaved Banksia Banksia brownii will receive much needed conservation attention. Banksias don't live forever, they get old and susceptible to disease. They need fire to release seeds and recruit new plants.

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Ngurrawaana Ranger Habitat Conservation

A conservation project in the Millstream Chichester National Park (MCNP) bringing together a team of local traditional owners with parks staff in order to help threatened species recovery .

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Kangaroo Island’s Enigma Moth

The mysteries of a rare, newly discovered moth are being uncovered on Kangaroo Island in South Australia and the community are being engaged in conservation at the same time.

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Christmas Island Reptiles

Reptile species only found on Christmas Island are being saved from extinction through a captive breeding program established in 2009. Since then, FNPW and our supporters have funded two projects in 2013 and 2015 to house the growing reptile populations.

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Kangaroo Island’s Bandicoots

The endangered Southern Brown Bandicoots of Kangaroo Island are the focus of increased conservation efforts. Research provides the knowledge required to help this endangered species recover.

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Kukundi Nature Playspace

To coincide with National Tree Day, Kukundi Nature Playspace was unveiled at a launch event in Lane Cove National Park on Friday, 28 July 2017. The outdoor space features a range of new Nature Play equipment that aims to reconnect kids with nature and the outdoors.

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Koala Tree Planting

Over the past 20 years more than 70% of the Manna Gum community has been lost and without intervention we will lose this unique and rare habitat type, along with the koalas and many other plants and animals that rely on it.

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Redlands Koala planting

Thanks to your support, koala habitat in Redlands is increasing through community tree plantings. The plantings extend corridors within which koalas can safely travel, feed, find mates, and raise their young.

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Granite Island Little Penguins

The Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) is the smallest species of penguin in the world, with an average height of just 33 cms. They are found only on the southern coastlines of Australia and New Zealand. Populations of Little Penguins are facing serious decline. On Granite Island in South Australia, numbers have fallen from 1548 in 2001 to just 22 in 2015.

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Private Land Conservation Grants

Conservation isn't just about National Parks. FNPW's Private Land Conservation Grant program supports conservation on private land to create habitat corridors between National Parks.

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Yarrahapinni Wetlands Restoration

Wetland restoration and health have been the primary drivers of the whole project. The project will replicate a return to a more natural water flow between the wetlands and the Macleay river.

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Plant a Tree for Me

Plant a tree for Me! projects focus on Australian native species conservation through habitat restoration and revegetation projects.

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Lane Cove Bushcare Program 2018

To support the Lane Cove National Park’s volunteer programs, FNPW provided valuable funding to replenish resources for the Lane Cove Bush Care Program, enabling them to purchase additional bush regeneration kits, gloves, herbicide and herbicide applicators, weed bags, and tree planting equipment.

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Brush-Tailed Rock-Wallaby School Education

Brush-tailed Rock-Wallaby Monitoring involving Intensive individual identification of all wallabies at the three colonies which was undertaken monthly.

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Gogerly’s Point Heritage Precinct

The Friends of Royal organisation planned and implemented a track restoration program to restore a heritage path from Gogerly’s Point at Hill Top House to join with the Warrumbul walking track and picnic area. A directional totem was produced and installed at the track junction to direct walkers.

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Mid sized Broadshelled Murray River Turtle

1 Million Turtles

Over the last 40 years, the most common and widespread species of Murray River turtles have declined by up to 91%. The 1 Million Turtles Project will create the blueprint for “headstarting” as an inexpensive landscape-scale approach to conservation.

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Bushfire Recovery Small Grants

As part of FNPW’s Healing our Land initiative, our focus is to repair the damage inflicted on our country following devastating bushfire events. With over 12 million hectares of national park and bushland affected in the 2020 fires and an estimated one billion native animals losing their lives, the initiative will focus on the regeneration and recovery of Australia’s flora and fauna.

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Kosciuszko National Park 2020 Fire Recovery

This project focuses on unburnt areas of Kosciuszko National Park after the 2019/2020 bushfires including the planting of Mountain Pygmy Possum Habitat, installation of bat boxes, bird and bat survey, erosion control measures in vulnerable bog areas, and seed collection.

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Bushfire Recovery Nurseries

FNPW Bushfire Recovery Nurseries project that includes grants to support community nurseries currently in and around bushfire impacted regions.

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Nilpena Station

FNPW in partnership with the South Australian Government and the Flinders Ranges Ediacara Foundation were able to purchase 60,000 hectares of Nilpena Station to become part of the Ediacara Conservation Park to conserve its globally significant fossils.

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Sturt National Park

Since its inception in 1970, land conservation has been a hallmark activity of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. We have added land to 50 national parks and nature reserves across Australia.

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Woomargama National Park

Woomargama National Park in southern NSW is now 229 hectares larger, thanks to the generosity of supporters of national conservation charity the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife (FNPW).

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Manly Little Penguins

FNPW funds the Manly Little Penguin Program to manage this endangered population. Funds go towards monitoring of the Little Penguin population, provision of resources for volunteers and education activities.

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Warddeken Mayh

The project will see the work of the indigenous rangers of the Warddeken IPA developed to include on-ground monitoring and management of over 13 threatened species populations (including the Djabbo or Northern Quoll).

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Wildlife Heroes

Wildlife Heroes is a project managed by FNPW and designed to help and support Australia’s 10,000+ volunteer wildlife carers.

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Nectarlovers

NectarLovers is a co-funded Saving our Species project located in the Holbrook region, NSW, focusing on the region's nectar feeding bird species.

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Trails for Tails

Trails for Trails is a Saving our Species project located in the Border Ranges, NSW, region focusing on the Albert's Lyrebird.

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Black Cockatoo Corridor

This Plant a Tree For Me project aims to revegetate additional Allocasuarina Verticulata (She-Oak) at Blowhole Beach for food of Black Glossy Cockatoos as apart of project to provide food for when these birds cross again to the mainland.

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Petaurus Connections

A Saving our Species project located in the K2W region focusing on the squirrel glider, spotted-tailed quoll and the scarlet robin.

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Seagrass Collaboration

Currently, a wealth of data on seagrass exists in various formats and is held by a multitude of stakeholders across the state. There is a need for coordination and collation of these datasets to optimise their use throughout research, monitoring and management.

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Bandicoot Super Highway

Targeted interventions in strategic locations will help deliver a goal of reducing the threat level to the Southern Brown Bandicoot from Endangered to Vulnerable.

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Aussie Ark Quolls

The Eastern quoll project has been highly successful, starting with 20 individuals in early 2018, with an aim of reaching 70 individuals and doubling our holding enclosures at Aussie Ark.

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Tangaroa Blue

FNPW works with Tangaroa Blue to reduce the amount of rubbish entering our waterways and ocean. Over 800 species worldwide are impacted by marine debris. They need our help to survive a crisis hidden beneath the waves. More effective than cleaning up beaches is preventing rubbish from ending up there in the first place.

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Malleefowl Conservation

FNPW has provided grant funding to ensure the Malleefowl Recovery Plan continues to maintain the required level of volunteers who are dedicated to monitoring sites and gathering data crucial to ensuring the conservation of Malleefowl habitat.

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Restoring the Glideways of K2W

The Kanangra-Boyd to Wyangala (K2W) Glideways Bushconnect project is a collaboration to conserve gliders and their habitat by restoring natural connections across the Abercrombie Catchment

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Western Swamp Tortoise

The Western Swamp Tortoise is one of Australia’s most endangered reptiles. It is only 15 cm in length and is found in Western Australia.

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Students Dig In For Conservation

Utilising a 2019 FNPW Community Conservation Grant, KINRMG ran 6 Field Days over a two-year period, with about 15 volunteers per Field Day donating 2 hours of labour each time, to remove weeds and maintain native bushland as priority areas present themselves.

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Community Conservation Grants

FNPW's Community Conservation Grants program contributes to the protection of Australia's native species, habitats, landscapes and cultural heritage by providing funding for field projects and education programs that have a direct nature conservation outcome.

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Red-Tailed Phascogale

The Red-Tailed Phascogale (Phascogale calura) was once wide-spread across southern Australia, but is now limited to a ‘triangle’ in south-west WA. Loss of habitat (wandoo / sheoak woodland) and predation by feral and domestic cats have been catastrophic for the species. It is listed as Endangered under the EPBC Act.

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Green Parrot Breeding Project

Degraded habitat will be restored on Phillip Island due to the construction of an on-island nursery for endemic and threatened plants. A sense of ownership will grow as community members participate in running the nursery, propagating, and planting on Phillip Island. Before this, Phillip Island (6 km off Norfolk Island) was been stripped of plants and topsoil by introduced rabbits, pigs, and goats.

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Mt Schank Walking Trail

When you visit South Australia's Mount Schank State Heritage Area you can enjoy a new stone path to the volcano rim. Before this new track, the existing stairs did not meet Australian Standards and visitors often climbed beside the stairs instead, which led to erosion and a slipping hazard.

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Tassie Devil Roadkill

Game-changing new roadkill prevention technology is being trialled, particularly to prevent the deaths of Tasmanian Devils.

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Devil Ark

Captive breeding programs are saving the Tasmanian Devils from the brink of extinction. As one of the largest living carnivorous marsupials in the world, the endemic Australian animal once roamed throughout mainland Australia...

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WA Bird Watering Stations

The bird waterers in Jirdarup Bushland are specifically designed to aid the survival of local native birdlife, particularly the endangered Carnaby's Black Cockatoos and vulnerable Forest Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos that roost and feed in the area. The structures are popular with all manner of bird species large and small and provide them with clean water all year round.

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WA’s Woylie Survival

Woylies (aka Brush-tailed Bettongs) are very unique Australian native marsupials. They play an important role in the environment as nature’s gardeners.

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Nest Boxes in Plenty Gorge Park

Plenty Gorge Park is a refuge for arboreal marsupials including Feathertail Gliders, Sugar Gliders and importantly the Brushtail Phascogale (FFG listed and vulnerable both in Victoria and nationally).

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Backyard Buddies

Backyard Buddies is a free education initiative run by the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. It gives you simple tips to transform your backyard into a safe and inviting habitat haven. You can explore, create and help your own backyard buddies, to help them survive and to thrive into the future.

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White-throated Grasswren

The White-throated Grasswren was once abundant in Kakadu National Park but declining numbers due to feral animals and habitat loss has placed them on the Vulnerable Species list.

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Youth Wildlife Ambassadors

The Phillip Island Youth Wildlife Ambassador program is designed to get younger people in the local community involved in helping protect nature and wildlife on the island. Seven ambassadors were selected for this year's program, two more than originally expected. Each prospective ambassador had to apply online and answer a series of questions.

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Mount Field National Park

FNPW provided funding to improve access to Mount Field National Park in Tasmania. The alpine area of this popular park attracts a large number of visitors; however, this has led over the years to a degraded track prone to flooding.

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Remarkable Southern Flinders

The Remarkable Southern Flinders project offers a rare opportunity to link well established national parks and conservations parks with land recently acquired for conservation and reservoir area opened for public use, to create a vast, connected park of national significance. 

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Garner’s Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre Project

In Australia, the Cassowary is listed as endangered with numbers at around 1,500 to 2,000. But these are guesstimates; no one knows for sure. That’s because Cassowaries live alone in dense forests and they’re hard to count. Cassowary males and females look pretty much the same when they’re young, but females eventually grow about a foot taller, reaching some six feet. They start breeding at age four or five and can live 40 years or more.

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Quolls Around the Monaro

The Spotted-tailed Quoll (aka Tiger Quoll) is the largest native marsupial carnivore left on the Australian mainland. Sadly its population has declined to the point where it now occupies just 50% of its original pre-European range.

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