News about private land conservation

Leaders from across the conservation, agribusiness and corporate sectors came together last month to explore a new co-investment model designed to support large-scale conservation partnerships across the state.

Landholders across NSW are discovering what lives on their properties by testing tiny traces of DNA drifting in the air.

For more than 60 years, Chakola has been a place of stewardship, learning and caring for Country and in more recent times become known as one of the Kangaroo Valley’s southernmost population of brush-tailed rock wallabies  

More than 90 leaders from investment, business, philanthropy and conservation attended the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust’s Climate Action Week panel, Valuing Nature: Economic Opportunities in our Natural World, hosted with Nature Positive Matters .  

A strong landholder response to our latest Fixed Price Offer (FPO) is driving new conservation opportunities across NSW, with assessment of the biodiversity on participating eligible properties progressing from this week.

Gayini shows what’s possible when Country is cared for by the people who know it best, proving when culture leads, conservation thrives. 

The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust is funding UNSW researchers from the Centre for Ecosystem Science to examine how Gayini’s ecosystems, particularly the floodplains and wetlands, respond to managed water flows and different grazing regimes. Their study will assess changes in water, soil and vegetation.  

The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust has published a What we heard report summarising feedback received during public consultation on proposed changes to the Biodiversity Offsets Payment Calculator (BOPC) Order 2022.

In the heart of the Central West, Garry and Robyn Ostini have spent the past 13 years at Daydawn , carrying forward a family legacy of caring for the land.

The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust welcomes the appointment of Angela Schuster to its Board.