Call Closed

The Australian Government's $44 million Defeating the Weed Menace programme aims to identify Australia's most threatening weeds and implement measures for management, including strategic on-ground control and eradication at regional level, research into cost effective management techniques and biocontrols for key target weeds, and awareness raising campaigns. After contracting projects from an initial call completed in October 2006 the Defeating the Weed Menace R&D component now has available further funding of approximately $1.5 million for investment in R&D.

Land & Water Australia is currently inviting submissions addressing one or more of the following priority themes:

• Developing new integrated weed management strategies that incorporate an understanding of landscape scale ecological processes
• Developing efficient methods for surveying and eradicating agreed emergent weeds, and options
• Quantifying the impacts of weeds on sustainability and the environment (including the ecological costs of weeds) and the relative benefits and costs of different control measures.
  
  

All projects proposed must be capable of being fully completed prior to 30 June 2008.

The following information should be used in preparing your application:

 DWM Project Brief (pdf - 98KB)

 DWM Research Agreement Feb 07 (pdf - 107KB)

 DWM Project Call Guidelines (pdf - 259KB)

 DWM Call Application (Word document - 281KB) 

For further information, please contact Amelia Forsyth-Smith or phone (02) 6263 6016.

Proposals must be received by 5:00PM 16 March 2007.