Habitat Matters
Habitat supplies food, shelter, and everything animals and plants need to live. They can’t survive without it.
When habitat disappears, so do the species that depend on it.
People are destroying habitat and making it less liveable for wildlife by clearing land, introducing invasive species, and changing water flows and fire patterns.
In Victoria, Traditional Owners cared for Country and looked after the land for millennia.
Since colonisation, half of Victoria’s native vegetation has been cleared, the highest rate in Australia.
On private land over 80 per cent of native vegetation has been lost. It’s vital that we protect and look after what’s left, and restore as much as we can.




Saving 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 the best way to prevent more species becoming extinct.
In our Statewide Conservation Plan, we’ve identified species that can benefit most from protecting habitat on private land.
So far, 437 species of threatened animals and plants have been recorded in habitat protected through Trust for Nature. With your help, we can protect even more habitat and more species.