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Stay up to date with the latest news and events on private land conservation from the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust.

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28 May 2026

Navigating the dry times and ongoing conservation management

Drought conditions across parts of NSW continue to place growing pressure on livestock, wildlife, production systems and conservation areas.  

Ministerial media release
22 May 2026

National Biodiversity Day: Private Landholders deliver conservation win

Private landholders across NSW are making a powerful impact by protecting the state’s threatened species and environment.

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14 May 2026

Discovering restoration at rare sandhill woodlands near Deniliquin

One of the Western Riverina region’s most distinctive and threatened ecosystems is showing encouraging signs of recovery. 

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1 May 2026

Coomba Bay landholders connect koala habitat

High on a steep ridgeline in northern NSW, mixed eucalypt forest sweeps across Wallingat National Park and into a private property playing an important role in protecting and connecting important koala habitat. 

Departmental release
16 April 2026

New co-investment opportunity to boost large scale conservation in NSW

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.

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8 April 2026

Landholders trial new innovative wildlife-detection technology

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

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1 April 2026

Chakola: long-term private land conservation protecting Kangaroo Valley biodiversity

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  

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31 March 2026

CAWSYD26 forum values economic opportunities of our natural world

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 .  

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27 March 2026

Strong field of eligible conservation sites assessed for fixed price offer

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.

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26 March 2026

Co-investment lends confidence to Indigenous-led conservation effort

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

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