Links to resources and information

Our Community’s Funding Centre has a page dedicated to grants for bushfire relief. It covers National and State based funding opportunities.

Organisations taking an ecological approach to emergency recovery

• Ecological Society of Australia
• Invasive Species Council
• Bush Heritage Australia
• Trust for Nature Vic
• NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust
• Nature Conservation Society of SA
• Friends of Parks SA
• Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife
• Firesticks
• Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
  • Weeds at the Early Stage of Invasion (WESI)
  • Victoria’s bushfire emergency: Biodiversity response and recovery
  • Weeds at the Early Stage of Invasion Project. Early Invader Update – Feb 2020. Feature  on weed management and fire.
• NSW Dept Planning Industry and Environment
• Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Native animal rescue organisations

• For Australian Wildlife Needing Aid (FAWNA)
• NSW Wildlife Council (NWC).
• Zoos Victoria Bushfire Emergency Wildlife Fund
• Wildlife Victoria
• WIRES Wildlife Rescue
• Wildlife Rescue South Coast Inc
• Woodgate and Surrounds Wildlife Rescue
• WWF bushfire appeal
• International Fund for Animal Welfare(Australia office)
• RSPCA bushfire appeal
• Wildlife Rescue contacts, Australia Wide (a FB group)
• Animal Rescue Collective (a FB group)
• Port Macquarie Koala Hospital

Groups supporting rural landholders affected by fire

• Far South Coast Conservation Management Network
  • July 2020 newsletter dedicated to post-fire recovery tools
• Landcare Australia
• Trust for Nature Victoria
• NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust
• BlazeAid
• Local Land Services
• NSW Dept Planning Industry and Environment
• Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
• Qld Department of Environment and Science
• Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
• WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
• Also check your local council 

Links to groups working where planting is really needed

Creating new areas of habitat in already cleared areas (especially wildlife corridors):

• Greening Australia
• Australian Network for Plant Conservation– 2019/20 Bushfire Resources
• Trees for Life SA
• Gondwana Link
• Also check your local council and state environmental agencies

Replanting and seed banking to conserve threatened species

• Australian Network for Plant Conservation
• Each state’s Botanic Gardens and Zoos

Planting to improve ecosystem services, store carbon and support biodiversity

• Landcare Australia
• Trillion Trees

Planting to provide habitat in fire prone backyards

• Planting habitat in your garden in bushfire prone areas

AABR’s Post-fire wildlife habitat recovery strategy