Malcolm Turnbull is set to promise a special $5 million kitty to help community groups protect threatened animals and plants on Sunday, the world environment day if the coalition wins on July 2.
"Protecting our vulnerable wildlife is not a task governments can do alone," he said.
Nine projects have been earmarked so far:
- WA groups will receive assistance to save rare potoroos marsupials and bandicoots.
- Queensland groups will use the money to protect cassowaries from feral pigs, save the mahogany glider's habitat and help the Ormeau Bottle Tree thrive.
- A NSW group will restore saltmarsh habitat for migratory shorebirds in the Hunter region.
- A Tasmanian group will eradicate feral cats in the Meander Valley to give the eastern barred bandicoots and eastern quolls a better chance at survival.
- Victorian groups will do propagation and re-vegetation work to promote populations of helmeted honey eaters at Yellingbo and plant native shrubs in the Terrick Terrick national park.
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