Agreement Assurance

Our conservation agreement-holders have a shared goal to protect native habitat and species on their land.

Each conservation agreement comes with obligations, which we support the agreement-holder to meet.

We also respond when agreement-holders are not fulfilling their obligations, and do so in a way that is consistent and transparent.

The Agreement Assurance Policy sets out the approach the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust will take to ensure landholders who have entered into private land conservation agreements meet their agreement obligations.

Agreement Assurance Policy [.PDF, 4.29MB]

The policy outlines:

• the types of private land conservation agreements landholders can enter.
• the roles and responsibilities of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust to monitor agreements.
• how the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust will support landholders to voluntarily fulfil their agreement obligations.
• how the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust will approach agreements where the agreement-holder is not fulfilling agreement obligations.
• guidance for NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust staff members responsible for making consistent decisions where obligations are not being fulfilled.