ENVIRONMENT GRANTS - ENVIRONMENT PROJECT GRANTS (ROUND 18), MULTI-YEAR ENVIRONMENT COLLABORATIVE (MEC) GRANTS (ROUND 2: 2023-2026) AND ENVIRONMENT ORGANISATION ALLIANCE GRANTS (2023-2026) · Attachment 2 - MEC Grants Summary and Recommendations Rev 2

Attachment 2: MEC Grant applications 2023-26 – Summary
Applicant       Project name            Project overview


Noosa           Noosa Cat's Claw        • This project will strategically manage infestations of Cats Claw Creeper and Madeira Vine at high priority sites at Six Mile and Kin Kin
Landcare        Crusade                   Creek catchments in the Noosa Shire.
                                        • Over 3 years vines will be treated and eradicated where possible, using best practices by Noosa and District Landcare, Kabi Kabi Cert III
                                          Skilling Queenslanders for Work trainees.
MRCCC           Noosa hinterland        • The aim of the Noosa hinterland rural extension program is to provide extension services and on-ground incentives to rural landholders in
                rural extension           high priority sub-catchments to improve downstream water quality through the adoption of best land and water management practices.
                program
Noosa           Kicking on with         • The project seeks to address the key threat of soil condition decline, loss and sediment movement by riparian erosion, gully erosion and
Landcare        Keeping it in Kin Kin     land slips in the Kin Kin Catchment.
                                        • The project includes on-ground remediation works of currently unstable sites, improvements to pasture management and soil health on
                                          farms and the protection and treatment of incidental invasive transformer vine weeds in the riparian TEC rainforest community.
MRCCC           Biodiversity            This program consists of three related projects:
                Resilience in the       1. Find a Frog in February annual citizen science event.
                Noosa Shire             2. Long-term monitoring of threatened stream frogs in the Six Mile Creek catchment (Cooroora Creek and Six Mile Creek).
                                        3. Long-term monitoring of Wallum wetland sites collecting pre- and post-fire data within Noosa Shire.

Hinterland      Noosa Roving            • The Noosa Roving Restorers Program regenerates bush in strategic wildlife corridors in the Noosa District by carrying out environmental
Bush Links      Restorers                 weeding and tree planting on private and public land.
                                        • Weeding and planting will be undertaken twice a month by community volunteers, led by an experienced Project Officer.
Tourism         Plastic Free Noosa      • Working with Noosa Council Waste department with behavioural change mechanisms for all used and waste materials.
Noosa Pty Ltd                           • Working with visitors through the Tread Lightly - Plastic Free Noosa beach clean-ups program.
                                        • Increased schedule of working with schools and sporting clubs for waste reduction plans and include KPI's and clear outcomes with waste
                                          warrior and ambassador projects.
                                        • Working with local businesses, events and people to form circular economy strategies which are based on three principles of: eliminate
                                          waste and pollution, circulate products and materials and regenerate nature.
MRCCC           Citizen Science         • Citizen Scientists across the Noosa Shire collect water quality data on a monthly basis across three different community based NRM
                Waterwatch                groups. Over the past 20 years, each of the collaborators has operated water quality monitoring projects in isolation. This project proposes
                Program                   to undertake this monitoring as a partnership.