Trust for Nature
Website: Trust for Nature
Formerly known as the Victorian Conservation Trust, Trust for Nature's mission is to enable people to bequeath land or money for conservation and for the purchase of Victoria's threatened, privately owned bush. It is Australia's oldest conservation trust with 35 years experience.
Trust for Nature also works with landholders to voluntarily place conservation covenants on their land, permanently protecting significant areas of natural bushland. In 1989 the NGO added a revolving fund, which allows Trust for Nature to buy important bushland , protect it with perpetual conservation covenants and resell it so the funds can be re-used.
Since 2001, with $1.1 million from the Australian Government, Trust for Nature have added 7 protected areas, covering over 30,000 hectares.
List of properties purchased by Trust for Nature with NRS Program support
Name |
Financial Year |
IBRA Region |
Hectares |
Australian Government Funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1998/1999 |
Riverina (RIV) |
15 |
$34,000 |
|
1999/2000 |
South East Coastal Plain (SCP) |
469 |
$285,444 |
|
1999/2000 |
Victorian Midlands (VM) |
80 |
$46,150 |
|
Wedderburn grassland |
2000/2001 |
Riverina (RIV) |
130 |
$120,167 |
Mitiamo (Glasson's) Riverina Grasslands |
2001/2002 |
Riverina (RIV) |
170 |
$71,369 |
2001/2002 |
Riverina (RIV) |
246 |
$65,584 |
|
2002/2003 |
Riverina (RIV) / Murray-Darling Depression (MDD) |
29,816 |
$500,000 |