Get paid to protect nature on your land
The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust regularly opens tenders to protect threatened native habitat and species.
These tenders are offered to landholders across NSW and specify the habitat and species we want to invest in.
If you're successful, you'll receive annual payments to carry out a conservation plan that you set with our ecologists and local support staff.
How a conservation tender could pay to protect native species on your land
Read transcriptHow it works
Tender opens
We will publish a landholder guide for each tender, which you should read before submitting an EOI and hold local information sessions in the tender area.
If eligible, submit an expression of interest by the closing date.
This does not commit you to a conservation agreement but is the first step toward managing an ongoing conservation area, registered on your land title.
When you submit your expression of interest, you’ll map for us the conservation area you propose to manage.
This helps us assess your submission for the next step.
Eligibility check
We review your expression of interest and proposed conservation area to check if your land is eligible.
If it is, we’ll arrange to visit your site and help you draft a conservation management plan.
Submit a bid
You decide how much money you want to be paid each year to carry out the conservation management plan.
This price, per hectare, per year is a competitive bid, and will be submitted with your conservation management plan.
Evaluation
We use a consistent metric to rank the bids that represent the best value for money for the habitat and planned conservation work.
Offer and payment
If your bid is successful, you’ll be offered a conservation agreement.
Once the agreement is signed and registered on your land title, you’ll receive your first annual payment.
You’ll then begin your first year of conservation work and reporting.
Note: The process from submitting an expression of interest to signing an agreement may take up to a year.
How do conservation tenders work?
Find clear answers on eligibility, payments, agreements and how to apply.

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