Environment Recovery package - 2023 Tropical Cyclone Jasper

About

The $42.985 million Environmental Recovery package is for environmental and cultural recovery activities to accelerate recovery across the most heavily impacted areas following the Tropical Cyclone Jasper, Associated Rainfall and Flooding, 13 – 28 December 2023 event. 

The environmental and cultural recovery activities will support and accelerate recovery across the most heavily impacted areas and include the following programs:

• Environmental Investigations Program - $2 million
• Healthy Waters Cleanup and Recovery Program - $20 million
• Biodiversity and Invasive Species Management Program - $7.3 million
• National Park Recovery Program - $11.6 million
• Environmental and Cultural Asset Steward Support Program - $2.085 million

Eligibility

The initiative will be made available in the local government areas, Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage areas and national parks impacted by the event, with eligible applicants and partners being State and Local Government, and non-government organisations including (but not limited to) natural resource management bodies, conservation groups, nature refuge owners, first nations corporations and universities.

Locations where the initiative will be made available/provided include:

• Cairns Regional Council
• Cassowary Coast Regional Council
• Cook Shire Council
• Douglas Shire Council
• Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council
• Mareeba Shire Council
• Tablelands Regional Council
• Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council
• Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council

Funding acknowledgement

The package is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments to support Queensland communities in their recovery from the Tropical Cyclone Jasper, Associated Rainfall and Flooding, 13 - 28 December 2023 event.

Administering agency

Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA)

Delivery agency

The Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (DETSI), in conjunction with Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (DNRMMRRD).

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