looking after our land. forever.
Our Priorities
At the heart of our mission lies a deep commitment to preserving the natural world for future generations. Our top priorities focus on protecting critical habitats, fostering biodiversity, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. We collaborate with landowners, local communities, and other stakeholders to establish conservation covenants, create wildlife corridors, and restore degraded ecosystems.
Strategic Conservation in Victoria
Our work is guided by our Statewide Conservation Plan, which provides a scientific framework to inform conservation on private land across Victoria.
We aim to protect an additional 100,000 hectares of habitat on private land by 2030.
Working with First Peoples
At the heart of our work lies a commitment to meaningful engagement and respect for First Peoples’ knowledge and perspectives when caring for Country.
Our approach is guided by principles of cultural sensitivity, reciprocity, and mutual respect.
Climate Change Action
Climate change poses a fundamental long-term threat to biodiversity.
Protecting habitat from destructive activities helps mitigate climate change by preventing carbon from being released into the atmosphere.
Threatened Species
In Victoria, nearly 2,000 species are threatened with extinction. 50 species of animals and plants have already disappeared from the state forever.
Protecting habitat is one of the best ways to prevent more species from becoming extinct.
Global Conservation Targets
Protecting habitat on private land is vital for meeting state, national and global conservation targets and halting the decline of our environment worldwide.
Trust for Nature is contributing to efforts to achieve targets of protecting 30% of Australia’s land, sea and waterways by 2030.
Restoration
Restoration of the land by planting native trees and shrubs not only improves the health of our ecosystems, it plays a vital role in mitigating the impact of climate change by storing carbon.
We are working with partners to restore native vegetation across the state and achieve landscape-scale change.
Landholders encouraged to support efforts to protect important habitat along the Birrarung/Yarra
March 18, 2025Saving Victoria’s grasslands and the Plains-Wanderer
March 4, 2025Grassland conservation partnership recognised in 36th Banksia National Sustainability Awards
1500+ landholders across Victoria have made an incredible gesture to nature by ensuring the native habitat on their property is protected forever.