The Protecting Queensland's Threatened Species: Applied Research Grants provide funding between $50,000 and $150,000 (excluding GST) to eligible recipients to undertake research projects to ensure Queensland has the facts and knowledge of Queensland's threatened flora and fauna species to protect and conserve them for future generations.

A total of up to $1,000,000 in funding is available in this round of grants.

For the purposes of this grants program, threatened species are classified as those listed as threatened under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) or those that occur in Queensland and are listed as threatened under the Commonwealth Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

Projects funded will be those that undertake applied research activities and develop actionable information to assist with the on-ground recovery of one or more threatened species in the wild; this can include on private land, public estate, or at the private-public interface. Projects should be aligned with the Research Prospectus for Queensland Threatened Species and Conservation Estate and may include, but are not limited, to:

• developing effective methods for mitigating threatening processes
• determining interactions between threats, threatened species and threat mitigation actions
• developing novel and innovative methods to improve monitoring, threat mitigation and management actions
• addressing identified knowledge gaps in threatened species biology and ecology to improve recovery.

The following applicants are eligible to apply for a grant in their own right: 

• tertiary education institutions administered by the Commonwealth or State 
• properly established incorporated associations (incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1981) 
• Australian charities registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) 
• not-for-profit organisations registered under the Corporations Act 2001 
• Indigenous corporations incorporated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cwlth) 
• Natural Resource Management (NRM) bodies.

• Email: threatened.species@des.qld.gov.au