Feral Cat Management Grants

In 2025, $500,000 was available through the Feral Cat Management Grants.

Overall, the program offers a total of $2,000,000 of grant funding available over 4 years for feral cat management activities.

Applicants from the following groups or organisations were encouraged to apply:

• Aboriginal community organisations including Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate
• incorporated associations and not-for-profit companies and trusts, including most community, landcare, and NRM groups, Recognised Biosecurity Groups and grower groups
• Land Conservation District Committees
• local government authorities
• primary and secondary schools.

The key features of the 2025 Feral Cat Management Grants are as follows:

• Grants must address one or more of the objectives of Western Australian Feral Cat Strategy.
• Maximum grant request up to $250,000, with a minimum request of $10,000.
• Grant funded projects must have a duration of less than 36 months (3 years).
• Grants can be used to fund a wide range of community-based feral cat management activities that will achieve on-ground native fauna conservation outcomes directly, improve methods or technologies through research and development, or improve an organisation’s capacity for feral cat management.  
• Grants are not applicable to domestic cat management.
• Grant applications with lethal or baited activities will require relevant permits, authorities and/or indemnities.

Further details are available in the guidelines document on this page.