A Lotterywest grant of $1.8 million has been awarded to Curtin University's Native Seed Technology and Innovation Hub, to improve native seed quality and restore degraded land across Western Australia.
Land restoration activities have the potential to address up to 20 per cent of current climate impacts while creating habitat for species, enterprise opportunities for communities and arresting land degradation.
The $1.8 million in funding will go towards upgrading seed testing and production equipment - to boost quality, quantity and diversity of native seeds - for restoring biodiversity in more than 1 million hectares of degraded land throughout WA.
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