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The Natural Heritage Trust ceased on 30 June 2008. It has been replaced by Caring for our Country .

The Natural Heritage Trust web site is no longer being maintained or updated but remains here as an archive for your information.

Australian Government Envirofund

The Australian Government Envirofund was established in 2002 as the local action component of the $5.1 billion Natural Heritage Trust program. Trust funds of over $135 million through 10 rounds supported community groups and individuals to undertake 8,137 small projects aimed at conserving biodiversity and promoting sustainable natural resource use.

Trust funding concludes after June 2008. Envirofund projects supported under Rounds 9 and 10, announced in October 2007, will be the final to receive funding through the Envirofund program.

Envirofund grants of up to $50,000 (GST inclusive) were provided to individuals and legal entities such as incorporated community groups and associations, companies, trusts, partnerships and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander corporations or councils proposing activities with very high public benefit.

Where groups were not incorporated, funding could be requested provided another legal entity (for example a local, state or territory government, regional natural resource management body or an incorporated community group) agreed to administer the contract and funding (a sponsoring organisation).

What is the role and responsibility of the sponsoring organisation?

Envirofund Round 10

Applications for a special purpose ‘coastal and marine’ round (Round 10) - the final round of Envirofund - closed on Friday 20 July 2007. $4 million of successful projects were announced on 14 October 2007.