Biodiversity Conservation Education

One of our major projects, Conservation Champions, targets regional school students. It aims to promote the importance of biodiversity conservation in regional communities by educating the next generation of landholders. Students involved in Conservation Champions learn from our landholders, our staff, and educators through hands-on activities in the classroom and in the field. The project is being co-delivered by the BCT and Petaurus Education Group across NSW. We work with landholders and schools across a range of different landscapes.

Another major project under development is the Biodiversity on my Land Museum in a Box, developed in partnership with the Australian Museum. These boxes, which will contain a wide variety of hands-on learning activities, will be available for hire by schools, community centres and libraries in 2020. The project will encourage students to explore the role of private landholders in protecting biodiversity. It will also highlight the importance of the many under-represented landscapes in NSW, the species found there, their role in the broader landscape’s function and the stories of those landholders protecting them.

In a new partnership with Landcare NSW, the BCT is providing $1.34 million to fund a series of local projects and activities which will support conservation on private land.

Local Landcare groups across NSW will be able to apply for funding to raise awareness and increase participation in private land conservation. The partnership will also assist Landcare groups and local landholders to better understand the BCT and our programs.

More information about the project will be available on our website in June 2020.

Visit the project page on the Landcare NSW website