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‐ ANAO Report No.10 2014–15 Administration of the Biodiversity Fund Program 77 Table 5.1: Discretionary grants awarded under the Biodiversity Fund program Grant Title Funding Recipient Project Description Awarded and Time Period Funding Agreement Endorsed Workshops and ‘how to’ Guides Greening Australia Facilitation of regional revegetation workshops and preparation of up-to-date how to guides on restoration and revegetation. 176 000 3.5 months 10 January 2012 Scientific Monitoring Guidelines NERP Environmental Decisions Hub 1 Design of scientific monitoring guidelines for key Biodiversity Fund program investment areas. 275 000 2 years 29 May 2013 Tasmanian Forest Landscape Restoration Project Environment Tasmania Inc. Restore 350 hectares from pine plantation back to biodiverse native forests in North-Eastern Tasmania, and in doing so connect coastal conservation areas with private land and new reserves arising from the Tasmanian Forest Agreement. 1.2 million 2 years 24 July 2013 Bush Blitz II Director of National Parks Deliver 20 scientific discovery field expeditions to key locations within Australia’s national conservation estate, and support the taxonomic research necessary to identify and describe our unknown biodiversity, and help train early career researchers. 6 million 4 years 5 August 2013 Source: ANAO analysis of Environment information. Note 1: NERP is the National Environmental Research Program, administered by the Department of the Environment. The NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, hosted by the University of Queensland, has received funding of 11 million to 2015 from the Australian Government under the NERP Program. Discretionary grant funding arrangements

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grants awarded to Greening Australia and the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub can be categorised as ‘program support’ activities—that is, they were to produce materials a planting guide from Greening Australia and services development of scientific monitoring guidelines by the NERP Hub to support the delivery and monitoring of Biodiversity Fund program projects. ANAO Report No.10 2014–15 Administration of the Biodiversity Fund Program 78

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