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 over 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 non-government organisation 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, the Trust for Nature organisation has added seven protected areas, covering over 30,000 hectares.
List of properties purchased by Trust for Nature with National Reserve System Program support
Information about IBRA can be found here
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 |