News about private land conservation

In the heart of the Upper Hunter, between Kingdon Ponds and Dartbrook Creek, lies one of NSW’s most significant conservation areas. 

Barbara Lindsey and Jon Renn have been at Pub Hill Farm for almost a decade, living their personal conservation values through the preservation of habitat for both threatened species and ecological communities.  

An area the size of the state's largest national park will be protected by private landholders under a new plan to be delivered by the NSW Government.

When Fiona Lumsden and John French bought Kooragindi , near Koorawatha, in 2008, they were looking for more than just a weekend escape.

It’s one thing to appreciate the species you’re protecting on a conservation agreement. It’s another to have photographic evidence and have contributed to the most significant private land biodiversity data set ever collected in NSW.

When three friends purchased Wallamara 26 years ago, they realised a rare opportunity to acquire freehold land adjacent to a declared wilderness national park, and containing remnant koala habitat.

For Newcastle trauma surgeon Zsolt J. Balogh, the operating theatre is where he’s spent years mending broken bodies with steady hands and a sharp focus. But beyond the hospital corridors, it’s the rugged beauty of our landscapes that drives a long-held passion for conservation beyond individual human lives.

In August an extraordinary winter storm delivered the heaviest snowfall the Northern Tablelands had seen in more than 40 years, blanketing the region with up to 50cm of snow. 

Tucked into the rocky hilltops near Bathurst, North Jack supports one of NSW’s most vulnerable plants, the granite zieria ( Zieria obcordata ), an endangered shrub that exists almost entirely within this single landscape.

Tucked into the rocky hilltops near Bathurst, North Jack supports one of NSW’s most vulnerable plants, the granite zieria ( Zieria obcordata ), an endangered shrub that exists almost entirely within this single landscape.