Environment Recovery package - TC Jasper

About

The $51.3 million Environmental Recovery package is for environmental and cultural recovery activities to accelerate recovery across the most heavily impacted areas following the eligible events:

  • Tropical Cyclone Jasper, associated rainfall and flooding, 13 – 28 December 2023
  • South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 – 3 January 2024.

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  
  • Healthy Waters Clean Up and Recovery Program 
  • Biodiversity and Invasive Species Management Program 
  • National Park Recovery Program 
  • Environmental and Cultural Asset Steward Support.

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 events, 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:

  • Tropical Cyclone Jasper
    • 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
  • South East Queensland Severe Storms 
    • Gold Coast City Council
    • Logan City Council
    • Scenic Rim City 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, 13 - 28 December 2023 event and the South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 – 3 January 2024.

Administering agency

Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA)

Delivery agency

The Department of Environment, Science and Innovation (DESI), in conjunction with Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and Department of Resources (DoR).

Guidelines

QRA will work with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to develop program guidelines for the program

More information

More details about this funding will be made available in the coming weeks.