Australasia
The Australian continent dominates this realm -- one of the world’s eight major biogeographical realms -- with 15 bioregions in total. Australia itself has 9 bioregions, the largest of which contains its vast interior deserts. To the south is a coastal Mediterranean woodland bioregion and to the north is a large expanse of tropical savannas. To the east are temperate grasslands and coastal forests. The realm also includes the islands of New Zealand, Tasmania, Papua, Sulawesi, and other Indonesian islands east of the Makassar Strait and south of the Java Sea. It also includes the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. With its seven seas and immense coral reefs, Australasia is one of the most important realms for ocean biodiversity. The Great Barrier Reef, considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders, is the world’s largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for more than 2,300 kilometers.
Projects that require funding are identified for each bioregion on the map below. Click a number icon to open the associated project listings.
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Advancing Indigenous Solutions for Climate Change and Food Security in Melanesia
Organization: Save PNG Project Type: Regenerative Agriculture Status: Open Funding Level: $$This project seeks to improve access to nutritional food plants and seeds in grassroots and indigenous communities, and aim to plant 10 million climate-resilient food trees by 2025, in pursuit of a future where every adult and child in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands is healthy, wealthy and resilient.
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Supporting local communities in Timor-Leste to protect and manage areas of exceptional marine biodiversity
Organization: Blue Ventures Project Type: Nature Conservation Status: Open Funding Level: $This project is working to support local communities in Timor-Leste to protect and manage areas of exceptional marine biodiversity, through providing the skills needed to monitor reef health, which will inform community marine conservation management measures and build local leadership for conservation.
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Designing a Zero-carbon City of the Future for Sydney, Australia
Organization: World Future Council Project Type: Energy Transition Status: Seed Funding Level: $$This project will create a new ground–breaking and open-source software to enable communities and cities to develop energy plans in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. In the pilot city of Sydney, Australia this project will be a participatory multi-stakeholder process that is needed to fill gaps in data and identify Sydney's specific energy needs.
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