Community Conservation Grants - Leeming and Palmyra groups

11/2/98

Leeming Senior High School P&C Association and the Palmyra Community Association have each been awarded grants under the State Government's Community Conservation Grants scheme.

They are two of 31 volunteer conservation groups from the Kimberley to the south coast that shared grants totalling $165,000.

Environment Minister Cheryl Edwardes said 27 local groups had been awarded $85,000, while four peak organisations - the Conservation Council, Urban Bushland Council, APACE Greenskills and Greening WA - would share a further $80,000.

The grants were designed to help local groups conserve native fauna and flora or for landcare projects that will benefit the State's environment.

Leeming Senior High School was granted $5,000 for the implementation of a management and revegetation plan for the school. This follows a $3,250 grant the school received under the scheme last year.

The Palmyra Community Association grant of $900 will help the group with a regeneration project at Bill Sheehy Park.

Mrs Edwardes said the grants were part of the Coalition Government's commitment to assisting community groups in undertaking projects that were recognised as important within the local area.

"Many of these smaller projects are integrated into more broadscale initiatives such as whole-of-catchment planning, farm tree crops and nature conservation measures," she said.

Some of the projects to receive grants include a bird hide at Lake Wheatfield, Esperance Bird Observers Group; a Ravensthorpe Shire herbarium; gravel pit revegetation at Kondut; North Beach School nursery; and restoration of Ramsar wetland in Lake Kununurra.