The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust has exceeded its goal to secure an additional 200,000 hectares under conservation agreements in NSW by 2025, a full year early.
CEO Erin Giuliani said in the last financial year, 69 new conservation agreements were established with private landholders, protecting another 24,249 hectares:
Riverina cemeteries have become conservation havens thanks to local councils and the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust.
Several cemeteries across the Riverina are being managed to preserve native habitats and species under conservation agreements, including Stockinbingal and Wallendbeen, both owned by Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.
They might be almost 100 kms apart but Murray-Riverina region properties, Dogleg Swamp and Warrangee, have a very special thing in common: they’re both protecting native woodlands and generating carbon credits under a first-of-its-kind initiative led by the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust.
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.
