This program provides grant funding to landholders with properties of high conservation value.

It helps establish bushland restoration projects to improve the native habitat on the property and contribute to the enhancement of the city's natural areas and biodiversity.

Projects eligible for funding must be on privately owned land within the Gold Coast and include activities such as:

• environmental weed control and bush regeneration, to restore areas back to their natural condition
• planting of local native tube stock to restore a degraded area that won't naturally regenerate
• establish vegetation corridors
• rehabilitate the banks of natural waterways.

Costs eligible for funding include:

• fees for a suitably experienced and qualified contractor
• purchase of herbicides, surfactants and registered dyes
• purchase of tube stock for revegetation, stakes, mulch and fertiliser.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be a private landholder
• demonstrate the environmental benefits beyond your property boundary (that is, how the project contributes to the protection, enhancement or management of the city's natural environment)
• demonstrate your capacity to manage the project and maintain the works in the following years
• demonstrate your capacity to administer City funding
• be free of debt to the City.

• Phone: 07 5582 8896
• Email: ncap@goldcoast.qld.gov.au