Cultural burning practices have been used for thousands of years to manage bushfire risks and promote biodiversity.
The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) and Aus Eco Solutions did a controlled burn on a conservation agreement site in the Hunter Valley in spring to help protect a patch of the critically endangered shrub, Persoonia pauciflora.
As concern for the future of our environment and unique biodiversity continues to grow it's increasingly important we find ways to encourage young people to be interested, informed and involved.
The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust’s (BCT) Conservation Champions education program meets this challenge head on by giving regional students the opportunity to learn about the importance of biodiversity conservation.
Nari Nari Tribal Council will lead critical habitat management on the largest privately-held land area in NSW to be permanently protected under a funded Conservation Agreement delivered through a significant co-investment partnership between it, the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust and The Nature Conservancy.
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.
