Students at Gippsland Grammar are jumping with joy after receiving a 2025 Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grant.
Delivered through Landcare Australia’s Junior Landcare program and funded by the Victorian Government, the grants provide young people the opportunity to engage in outdoor, hands-on biodiversity-focused projects or learning activities that provide both environmental and educational outcomes.
More than 110 grants were presented
this year.
Gippsland Grammar’s grant of almost
$5000 will be used to help students at
St Anne’s Campus continue to develop their biodiversity program by adding additional native plants and insect hotels, bird boxes and native animal sanctuaries throughout the spacious campus grounds.
“We are delighted to receive a Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grant and are eager to expand our current project. Our students will learn about improving our soil, increase biodiversity through native planting and apply Landcare principles to promote ongoing support for native wildlife,” Gippsland Grammar acting principal Bo Power said.
Funded by the Victorian Government through the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, the grants also contribute to the targets of Protecting Victoria’s Environment – Biodiversity 2037, the Victorian Government’s plan to stop the decline of our native plants and animals and improve our natural environment.
Launched in 1998, Junior Landcare is an awareness-raising and funding program that encourages children and young people to
play an active role in ensuring the safe future of the environment.
Since the Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grants were introduced in
2018, 678 projects have received $2,496,703 in funding from the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, up to and including 2024.
The grants provide funding to Victorian primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, preschools, childcare centres, Scouts, Girl Guides and Junior Landcare groups for projects that involve and educate young people in valuing and actively caring for Victoria’s biodiversity and natural environment.
