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DCQ News & Events

Funding

During October we will be releasing a $300,000 devolved grant round of ‘Protecting our Future’. Protecting our Future is a fully integrated
initiative aimed at getting the projects we fund delivering benefits across all our assets (Land, Water, Biodiversity and Community). In addition, we have allocated $150,000 to devolved grants for Indigenous Cultural Heritage. Our hot pursuit of the number one issue for our land management community, weeds, continues with our recent application for $1.8 million over 3 years from the federally funded, Defeating the Weeds Menace initiative. This one is specifically for weed eradication and control devolved grants and will be a boost to our very successful Cross catchments Weeds and Feral Animals Initiative. We also have a second application in for $600,000 to research the effects of prickly acacia on the bidiversity of the Mitchell Grass Downs. Stay tuned to see how we went with these.

Indigenous Program Update
 
To boost the DCQ Indigenous Land Management & Heritage Program’s funding, a proposal will be considered by the Board to provide a devolved grant round with scope for on-ground works to be carried out for Indigenous-specific projects within the region.

The proposal provides a tool to develop long-lasting and positive relationships between landholders and Aboriginal people. The main focus of the program will be on-ground works involving the protection, management and recording of sites and/or areas of significance to Traditional Owners within the region.  Another focus will be the development of formal agreements between Traditional Owners and landholders in managing these sites in a way that benefits both parties.
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