Students, teachers and Aboriginal Elders at Coffs Harbour’s Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School are working with the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) to deliver a unit of lessons sharing Aboriginal practices to care for Country and our natural environment.
A NEW initiative of the NSW Government will protect and regenerate threatened native woodlands while offering landholders the opportunity to generate carbon credits and earn payments for their conservation efforts.
Dr Erin Giuliani has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust.
Dr Giuliani replaces former acting CEO Alan Goodwin, who will continue leading the Biodiversity Conservation Trust's Regional Delivery team of ecologists and landholder support staff.
The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust has welcomed four new Board members to support private land conservation and drive important biodiversity goals for the state.
NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) Board Chair Hon. Niall Blair said the appointments reflected the BCT’s ambitions to expand private land conservation through industry leading best-practice, innovation and partnerships.
With growing demands on, and from within, the primary industries sector to implement sustainable production processes and land management techniques, the NSW Government has responded to calls to reverse environmental decline with a number of voluntary programs running under the NSW Natural Capital Program.
The BCT is opening a new conservation tender in 2022 to fund eligible landholders in the Darling Baaka Riverine Corridor in western NSW.
