Resilient Country, Connected Communities: Planning for Landscape Renewal in the Inland Great Southern
Funding Body: Great Southern Development Commission
Funds: $10,000
Through this project, Gillamii, with support from the Great Southern Development Commission, aims to build drought resilience across the Inland Great Southern by engaging landholders and community members in planning for revegetation and landscape restoration. The project will strengthen local knowledge of how revegetation supports erosion control, biodiversity, ecosystem health, and long-term climate resilience.
Evergreen Farming Legacy Fund - The Great Southern Salinity Summit
Funding Body: Grower Group Alliance & Meat and Livestock Australia
Funds: $18,000
Gillamii is proud to host the Great Southern Salinity Summit event on 19th March 2026 — a one-day regional event focused on tackling dryland salinity through innovation, collaboration, and practical solutions.
For over 30 years, Gillamii has supported primary producers across southern WA in managing salt-affected land through plant-based systems. Building on this legacy, the Summit will bring together growers, researchers, government agencies, and industry to reconnect, share knowledge, and explore future opportunities in salinity management.
With expected attendance of 80–100 participants, the Summit will feature:
Presentations on state and national investment in salinity, carbon and biofuel opportunities, and new planting technologies
Demonstrations of tools such as the Saltland Genie Web App
On-farm site visits to showcase local innovation in saltland rehabilitation
Networking sessions and static displays from local grower and Landcare groups
This event is supported by current project partners including Meat & Livestock Australia, CSIRO, and DPIRD, alongside in-kind support from local producers and grower networks.
The Summit will not only support our Gillamii members but also benefit the broader GGA network and the wider agricultural community through shared learning and collaboration.
Stay tuned for more details and registration information.
Greening the Great Southern
Funding Body: Landcare Australia
Funds: $17,600.00
Gillamii will collaborate with the local community, catchment groups, and shires to establish seedlings and promote environmental sustainability in the region. In collaboration with legacy funding donated by a retired local farmer facilitated through Regional Development Australia (RDA Great Southern Branch), this project aims to plant 20,500 seedlings across the Kent-Frankland region.
Together the Greening the Great Southern initiative honors this legacy through the power of landholder stewardship, contributing to the much-needed restoration and improvement of marginal lands in the Great Southern region.
Protecting and Restoring the Fitz-Stirling Priority Place
Funding Body: Australian Government under the Saving Native Species Program and South Coast NRM
Funds: $198,802.50
The project will conserve and restore the Fitz-Stirling Priority Place by implementing key management actions for its fauna, flora, threatened ecological communities and people. Through coordinated collaboration with partner organisations, the project will use a cross-tenure, landscape approach and build on concurrent Natural Heritage Trust investments.
SaltDECK Native Revegetation Guide
Funding Body: State NRM
Funds: $34,046
The Saltland Genie WebApp contains a set of interactive tools designed to assist land managers understand salinity and utilise plant-based systems to remediate salt affected land. One of the resources integrated into the Genie is the SALTdeck, containing information on salt-tolerant pasture species and their potential uses.
Closing the Economic Yield Gap of Grain Legumes in WA
Funding Body: Grains Research and Development Corporation
Funds: $42,000
This project engages government, agribusiness, researchers and end-users to work collaboratively to address the poor rate of adoption of grain legumes in WA farming systems.
Mapping the way Forward: NRM in the Kent-Frankland
Funding Body: State NRM
Funds: $27,550
This project will develop a series of protocols enabling organisations to process and consolidate project data, digitisation of NRM in the Kent-Frankland region. Good data management allows organisations to establish baselines, benchmarks, and goals to keep moving forward.
Community, Carbon & Conservation
Funding Body: State NRM
Funds: $226,980
The sub-regions of the Kent-Frankland and North Stirlings-Pallinup are located within the internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot of south-western Australia.