REGIONAL NRM: South Australia 'Caring for our Country' funding package announced

Media release
Hon Peter Garrett MP, Australian Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts
Hon Tony Burke MP, Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
20 October 2008

PROJECTS TO PROTECT SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WETLANDS AND WINE DISTRICT

South Australia’s fragile wetlands and the internationally-renowned Padthaway wine growing district will be better protected under projects funded through the Caring for our Country initiative.

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke, said the Caring for our Country package would support eight projects around the state in 2008-09.

A total $18.9 million will be shared between the state’s eight Natural Resource Management boards...

Read the full media release here.