Grants

The project aims to measure seasonal changes in foraging behaviour and breeding success.

Funding was sought in order to produce a map of the waterways on Tamborine Mountain to define future regeneration corridors. The corridors will connect existing national parks and other natural environment areas and preserve waterways. The Norman Wettenhall Foundation has funded the fees to be paid for the Surveyor and Nature Experts.

Funding to produce and publish a book of bowerbirds that is easily accessible, affordable, and attractive and that raises the profile and awareness of these exceptional birds. Clifford and Dawn Frith have dedicated 25 years of study to the bowerbirds in Australia and New Guinea.

The Balnarring Primary School will purchase a telescope to allow students to view the various birds that are attracted to the wetlands. Whilst the school has a set of binoculars, a telescope would allow for more targeted bird watching and instruction.

This project is part of the 'Overarching RiverConnect Project' that will see the Goulburn River duly recognised as the life and soul of the Shepparton-Mooroopna communities. The RiverConnect Education Review (2006) identified the need for an Education Coordinator to asist with the development and implementation of various educational projects throughout the area.

2007 is the 13th year of the project's operation and this funding will support several different aspects of the habitat restoration. This includes fencing and planting of specific sites, mistletoe removal from several infested Ironbark remnants, and wildlife corridors to connect the Lurg Hills with surrounding districts.

The Foundation has contributed funds towards the Festival, which aims to celebrate the diversity of bird species of the Box Ironbark forest in order to educate and raise awareness of the complexity and sensitivity of the environment that surrounds us.

This grant represents operational funding to support the fieldwork component of the research by PhD Candidate, Adam Leavesley, and will fully fund the fieldwork budget. Funds will be used to cover the cost of operating a vehicle and maintaining communications during the 2006/2007 field season which is substantially complete.

PhD Student Peter Macreadie sought funding for his research which will investigate the importance of Australia's native seagrasses to fish populations. The objectives of the study are to gain a better understanding of how fish respond to fragmentation and loss of seagrass, and to study fish movement pattern in seagrass of varying degrees of fragmentation.