The Ross Trust is thrilled to be playing a vital role in the Great Australian Platypus Search, which has begun in Victoria as one of the largest citizen scientist projects in the world.
Read moreFund amount:
200,000
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Statewide
Year:
2021-2022
The Yarra is the first name that usually springs to mind when people think of a Melbourne waterway. But there is another important and much-loved river – the Maribyrnong, which at 160km long i...
Read moreFund amount:
$120,000 over three years
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Maribyrnong River
Year:
2021
The new national independent policy centre Watertrust Australia Ltd has begun operations, thanks to a unique coalition of philanthropic funders, including The Ross Trust.
Read moreFund amount:
$1,000,000
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Canberra
Year:
2021
Endangered growling grass frogs will be returned to their natural habitat in northern Victoria through a project aiming to restore biodiversity to the Winton Wetlands with the support of a $36,500 ...
Read moreFund amount:
$36,500
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Hume
Year:
2021
Students from 30 government schools in Hume, Moreland and Boroondara will take part in biodiversity conservation education programs delivered by CERES Community Environment Park, with the support ...
Read moreFund amount:
$80,000 over two years
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Melbourne
Year:
2020
The Ross Trust has provided an advocacy grant of $198,000 to The Wilderness Society, for East Gippsland’s Emerald Link, part of a strategy to protect the region’s high conservation value forests.
Read moreFund amount:
$198,000 over three years
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
East Gippsland
Year:
2020
Creating an enduring, sustainable water policy for Australia is at the core of a new model proposed by philanthropy to address one of the most complex public policy challenges we face.
Read moreProgram area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Based on outstanding results from a previous habitat restoration project, the Ross Trust has backed the Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater to expand their work.
Read moreFund amount:
$164,000 over three years
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Yarra Ranges
Year:
2020
Jordan Crook is the new Nature Conservation Campaigner with the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA), with the supported of an Advocacy Grant.
Read moreFund amount:
$223,000 over three years
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Statewide
Year:
2020
A grant of $287,000 over two years will support The Nature Conservancy Australia’s plan to bring back Victoria’s lost reefs, with a reef restoration project in Port Phillip Bay off the coast of Dro...
Read moreFund amount:
$287,000 over two years
Program area:
Biodiversity Conservation
Location:
Mornington Peninsula
Year:
2020