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The Downes Family Farm in Camden NSW is a dairy farm owned and operated by the family for five generations. Prior to discovering biobanking, the Downes family farm was struggling. They faced the choice between going broke farming or realising the capital value of their land. Eventually, the family decided land conservation could be a means of securing the property's financial viability and provide them another farming activity option.

Graeme Kirk is extremely proud of his 300 hectares of land at Wollondilly on the south-western outskirts of Sydney, NSW. A keen advocate of the region, Graeme uses his property for grazing sheep and protecting native bushland.

Do you have native vegetation on parts of your property?
Would you like to receive financial and technical support to conserve it for future generations? 
 

Come join us at one of the information sessions we are hosting in the Central West in February to discover the BCT program offerings

Are you are a landholder in NSW who wants to protect the biodiversity on your property and get funding in return? The BCT runs Conservation Tenders throughout the year in targeted regions of the state. Landholders successful throughout the tenders receive annual payments for protecting and managing biodiversity on their property. 

Five landholders in the Port Macquarie region are entering conservation agreements with the Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) to protect regionally important koala habitat on parts of their properties in perpetuity.

In late November 2018, students from Holbrook School and Albury High visited Yencanyah, a property in Burrumbuttock, to learn about the local biodiversity and about private land conservation in a BioBlitz event.