Additional koala habitat protected in the Southern Highlands
The BCT has invited two additional landholders to sign conservation agreements to protect an additional 1,485 hectares of priority koala habitat in the Southern Highlands.
The BCT has invited two additional landholders to sign conservation agreements to protect an additional 1,485 hectares of priority koala habitat in the Southern Highlands.
Environment Minister Matt Kean has appointed Mr Niall Blair as Chairperson of the BCT.
Mr Kean said Mr Blair’s over twenty years experience across government and private sectors made him ideally suited to lead the BCT Board into the future.
The BCT has announced three new conservation tenders opening during 2021 in the Lower Clarence Valley, the Paroo and Warrego Catchments, and the Snowy Monaro local government area.
The Paroo and Warrego Catchments conservation tender aims to protect private land with important wetland habitat and floodplain ecosystems between significant rivers systems in Western NSW as well as Artesian Spring communities.
Tessa Johnson-Walker (Tessa) was born in England in 1939. She emigrated to Australia with her family in the 1960s and moved to the North Coast region of NSW in the 1980s and became involved with nature conservation through the North Coast Environment Council and Clarence Valley WIRES.
Rob and Wendy Gribble have recently signed a conservation agreement for their property Royland, as part of the BCT’s fixed price offer.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean today announced that five Southern Highland landholders will be offered funded conservation agreements to protect and manage koala habitat on their land.