Saving Native Species Grants - Threat Innovations

This program delivers the government’s election commitment to boost outcomes for threatened native plants and animals.

The objective of the grant opportunity is to deliver improved long-term outcomes for threatened species by developing new tools to mitigate the impact of broad-scale threats on threatened species (Target 19, Action Plan).

The grant opportunity will deliver this objective by funding innovative approaches (such as new methods, tools, technologies, or products) where the proof of concept has already been completed and there is an identified path to using this innovation for conservation threat abatement within Australia.

This funding will deliver benefits to biodiversity by assisting in the management of significant threats to threatened species and ecological communities. In particular, the proposed projects to be funded must identify one or more key threatening processes under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) that will be abated or partially abated by the project. Where there is an associated statutory threat abatement plan, threat abatement advice or national action plan (including draft plans), an action in the plan or advice must identify the need for the project. It is expected that the project will also be identified as part of necessary threat mitigation action in recovery plans or conservation advice made under the EPBC Act.