Deadline: 9 July 2024
The Queensland Government has launched the Community Sustainability Action Grants – Round 8 Wildlife Carers Assistance that provide grants to eligible wildlife carers and wildlife care organisations to increase capacity to assist with rescue and rehabilitation services for sick, injured or orphaned wildlife.
Funding Information
- Funding will be provided under one of the following categories:
- Category 1: Grants of up to $10,000 are available to individual wildlife carers
- Category 2: Grants of up to $25,000 are available to wildlife care organisations.
- Funding will be provided to those projects that will generate the greatest benefit for Queensland’s sick, injured or orphaned wildlife.
- A successful applicant will not receive more than one grant per round of the program.
- Projects must be completed within 12 months from execution of the grant agreement.
Eligible Projects and Activities
- Projects funded will be those that aim to increase the ability to provide care to sick or injured wildlife.
- Activities funded may include but not be limited to:
- competency based training
- care equipment
- general infrastructure and equipment
- vaccinations for carers
- community awareness that supports educative actions
- onboarding and/or capacity building of individual wildlife carers or members (wildlife care organisations only).
- Activities should encourage volunteer participation and must align with the:
- Code of Practice – Care of Sick, Injured or Orphaned Protected Animals in Queensland; and/or
- Code of Practice – Rehabilitation of Sick, Injured, or Orphaned Koalas in Queensland.
Ineligible Projects and Activities
- Projects and activities not considered for funding under this round include:
- projects undertaken outside of Queensland
- the translocation of any animal (unless transporting for treatment or release to the wild following treatment)
- captive breeding of a species or animal
- projects that do not have a primary aim of benefiting sick, injured or orphaned wildlife
- devolved grant funding (requests for funding to be provided to an applicant organisation who will then disseminate this funding to other organisations or individuals to complete work).
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include individuals and not for profit organisations that meet the following criteria:
- hold a current Queensland rehabilitation permit as an individual wildlife rehabilitator or wildlife care group; and
- are undertaking or intend to undertake rehabilitation activities in accordance with their rehabilitation permit issued by the department.
- The permit must be in the name of the individual or the organisation (including endorsed group permits) applying for the grant and remain current for the duration of the project activities.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following applicants are ineligible to apply for funding:
- statutory bodies and authorities
- Australian Government agencies
- Queensland Government agencies
- political parties or lobbyists
- local government authorities
- schools (government and non-government schools).
For more information, visit Queensland Government.
