In a first-of-its-kind initiative, seven landholders from the Murray-Riverina are now protecting, enhancing and extending patches of important native vegetation while generating Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) with restorative plantings and diversifying their on-farm incomes.
Gordon and Eirlys Farrant may come from two different sides of the world, but together they found their home on the Wakool River in the western Riverina district.
Private Land Conservation joins the biodiversity buzz coming to Sydney this month with the Commonwealth Government's Global Nature Positive Summit on over three days from Tuesday, 8 to 10 October, followed by the Australian Land Conservation Alliance (ALCA) PLC24 conference wrapping the week up on Thursday and Friday 10 and 11 October.
When three friends purchased Wallamara 26 years ago, they realised a rare opportunity to acquire freehold land adjacent to a declared wilderness national park, and containing remnant koala habitat.
Today, a conservation agreement with the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust is seeing their goal of restoring that habitat a reality.
Kyogle landholder Don Durrant has owned his lush rainforest property for 30 years and he's lost count of the number of native trees he’s propagated and planted in that time.
The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust's new Cultural Biodiversity Conservation (CBC) pilot offer has started assessing the proposed conservation areas on land owned and managed by Aboriginal organisations.
