Looking after Country Grant program recipients

The Looking after Country Grants support a range of valuable land and sea management projects, delivered by First Nations communities in locations across Queensland.

Listing 68 grant recipients.

Year Recipient Project title Grant amount
Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation Pty Ltd Kalpowar Lands Cultural Heritage and Site Management Project $75,000
Yambangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC) Murra Yambangku (Hands on Country) Project $74,500
Dirringhi Aboriginal Corporation Dirringhi Habitat Restoration $49,758
Northern Gulf Resource Management Group Tagalaka Reading the Country for Future generations $75,000
Bush Heritage Australia Cultural Conservation and Knowledge Transfer on Wangkamadla Country $72,600
Kooma Traditional Owners Association Incorporation Kooma Morturary Tree $74,050
Moompa-Awu Aboriginal Corporation (MAAC) Moompa-Awu - Development Cultural Knowledge Program $75,000
Gummingurru Aboriginal Corporation Gummingurru Cultural Learnscape $73,400
Goorathuntha Traditional Owners Limited Mt Tabor Women's Healing Group $74,990
Buluwai Indigenous Corporation Buluwai Rangers and Cultural Tourism Development at Bunda Bibandji $75,000
Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (with Tagalaka Traditional Owners) New Beginnings, Reconnecting with Esmeralda Nature Reserve $75,000
Western Yalanji Corporation Western Yalanji Cultural Heritage Recording Project $75,000
Gateebil Gurrnung Aboriginal Corporation Conservation Plan - Challawong Rock $41,800
Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation Jirrbal Country Planning $74,800
Dulabed Malanbarra and Yidinji Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Jilljirri Plan Implementation and Cultural Heritage Capacity Building $74,999
Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation Bigambul Caring for Country Plan – for healthy country and a thriving Bigambul community $74,250
Dabu Jajikal Aboriginal Corporation Jajikal Heritage Site Survey and Management Plan at Balabay (Weary Bay) $75,000
Ngai-Kungo-I People Inc Caring for Ngai-kungo-I People's Sacred Waters $55,000
Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation Mbabaram Bringing Back Cultural Burning and protecting cultural heritage places - Watsonville $75,000
Bromley Aboriginal Corporation Bromley Traditional Burning $74,971
Cape Melville Flinders and Howick Islands Aboriginal Corporation Understanding Manyamarr (Altanmoui Ranges) $75,000
Dabu Jajikal Aboriginal Corporation Heritage and Natural Values Survey & Site Management Plan for Agincourt Reef $75,000
Everick Foundation Wulgurukaba Rangers on Yunbenun (Magnetic Island) $75,000
Gunggari Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Mount Moffatt Cultural Heritage: Site Survey and Management Plan $74,500
Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Mitigation of coastal erosion at Irrki $50,500
Kuuku Ya'u Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Kuuku Ya'u Aboriginal Freehold projects $75,000
Muunthiwarra Aboriginal Corporation Reintroducing Traditional Burning on the Muunthiwarra Clan Estate $60,500
Pitta Pitta Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Marion Downs Station Aboriginal Huts – a Pitta Pitta cultural heritage project $63,386
River Nations Indigenous Corporation Ecological Restoration of a Bularm Guvarl (beach-forest) $74,260
Wanyurr-Majay Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Madjabana Healing Country $74,900
Western Kangoul Ltd The Cultural Landscape of Policeman's Lagoon, Western Kangoulu Country $75,000
Yambangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC) 'Murra Yambangku' (Hands on Country) Project Phase 2 (Monitoring, Maintenance, Capacity Building and Cultural Exchange) $74,900
Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Aboriginal Corporation Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Stone Arrangements Cultural Heritage Project $75,000
Gateebil Gurrnung Aboriginal Corporation Restoration of Challawong Rock $74,695
Dabu Jajikal Aboriginal Corporation Women's leadership in cultural heritage conservation program $75,000
River Nations Indigenous Corporation Ecological Restoration on Gooreng Gooreng Country $41,658
Cape Melville Flinders Howick Islands Aboriginal Corporation Protecting critical Country and Culture along Wakooka - Cape Melville Road $75,000
Bromley Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Bromley Traditional Burning 2023 $73,236
Buluwai Indigenous Corporation Recording and looking after cultural places $69,550
Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation Cultural healing and preservation of the Little Millstream Jirrbal Settlement remains in Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland $74,625
Mabuygiw Garkaziw Kupay Torres Strait Islander Corporation Dabangay (Dabangai) Restoration Project (Stage 2) - 2022-2024 $75,000
Maryborough Aboriginal Corporation for Housing and Cultural Development Moonaboola Bush Garden $75,000
Gimuy Walubara Yidinji Elders Aboriginal Corporation Gimuy Catchment Management Plan $74,004
Kyerrwandha Thingalkal Land Trust Possum and Thaypan Country Plan, Cultural Burning and Invasive Species Control $71,137
Port Curtis Coral Trust Reviving Culture and Healing Country in the Port Curtis Coral Coast Native Title Region $75,000
Kullilli Bulloo River Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Dika-gala punu - Kullilli 'Make Country Good' 10-year plan $75,000
Waanyi Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Waanyi Boodjamulla Culture Plan - Project for Cultural Integration and Capacity Building $69,660
Nunnie Burra Ltd (Birriah Aboriginal Corporation) Birriah Country Connection, Recording and Caring for Country Management Plan $74,604
Jumbun Limited Development and Documentation of Traditional Wisdom and Lore of the Land for Intergenerational Connection and Succession $75,000
Jawiyaba Warra Aboriginal Corporation Imbala Butterfly Research on Jawiyaba $75,000
Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Keeping Heritage Above the Water: Indigenous Disaster Risk Management and Planning in the face of Climate $74,835
Wardingarri Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Iman Taroom Aboriginal Settlement Conservation and Skills Development $75,000
Wulli Wulli Nation Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Wulli Wulli Native Plant Nursery and Vegetation Skills Development $75,000
Tagalaka Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Mapping Tagalaka Traditional Homelands $72,585
Badjuballa Aboriginal Corporation The Cyclone Story: Preservation of a natural and cultural site on Girramay country $75,000
Gimuy Walubara Yidinji Elders Aboriginal Corporation Wet Tropics Native Tree Nursery: Restoring the Great Barrier Reef Catchment $75,000
Nyanda Life Ltd Yagera Learning on Country Project $74,675
South West Indigenous Corporation Revitalising Culturally Significant Species Through Sustainability $75,000
Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation Going back to Badjuballa: Future Management of Three Rivers Country, Far North Queensland $74,900
Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Aboriginal Corporation Wangkangurru Yarluyandi cultural heritage - management and protection of 'Big Red' sand dune $75,000
Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation The next generation: Junior Traditional Custodians on Mbabaram Country $75,000
Nyanda Life Limited Yagara Learning on Country Project Stage 2 $73,700
Wangan Jagalingou Traditional Owner Aboriginal Corporation Yambanani Wandyali $74,750
Darrba Land Trust Wuyi Wetland - Looking after cultural places and knowledge $74,522
Mungalla Aboriginal Corporation for Business Nywaigi mob leading Healthy Country Planning $75,000
Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation Cultural values mapping with junior rangers in the Walsh River area $75,000
Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation Minjehla Dhagun Data Survey 2025/26 $75,000
Jawiyaba Warra Aboriginal Corporation Imbala Butterfly Project Phase two $75,000