Habitat Bunbury
Habitat Bunbury Program - Funds are available now!
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Habitat Bunbury is an initiative of the City of Bunbury that provides funding to assist local school groups to undertake environmental projects.
Primary and secondary schools in the Greater Bunbury Region are eligible and encouraged to apply at any time for a grant of up to $10,000. Applications are processed on a first come first serve basis and grants are allocated from a pool of funds which is replenished each financial year.
To find out more about this program please click to download and read a copy of the Habitat Bunbury Program Guidelines for Applicants.
To make an application for funds please click to download the Habitat Bunbury Program Application Form, which will then need to be completed and submitted.
Copies of both these documents are also available at the City of Bunbury’s Administration Building, 4 Stephen St, Bunbury.
For further information please contact Colin Spencer on 08 9792 7091 or by email at cspencer@bunbury.wa.gov.au.
Examples of previous projects:
Withers Primary School – Maidens Reserve Revegetation and Children’s Story Book: Students researched the ecology of the Maidens Reserve, revegetated coastal sand dunes, picked up rubbish and published a picture storybook titled Quenda and the Fire.
Cooinda Primary School – Dolphin Discovery Rangers Program: Students investigated the ecology and environmental issues of Koombana Bay and the white mangroves area and communicated their findings through a series of presentations to other primary schools within Bunbury.
Newton Moore Senior High School - Breeding, Releasing and Monitoring of Native Fauna in Bunbury City Waterways and Wetlands: This project involved breeding and releasing the native western minnow and western pigmy perch into wetlands around Bunbury, removing exotic gambusia fish and monitoring frog populations in the Hay Park wetlands.