Trust for Nature (Victoria)

Our mission is to protect and restore biodiversity on private land across Victoria

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Strategic Plan 2021-2025

We have always been ambitious at Trust for Nature. Faced with a state full of beautiful but vulnerable flora and fauna, with 79% of Victoria’s essential habitat on private land, our 50-year-old organisation has always set its sights on protecting as much as we can, for perpetuity.

This strategic plan is typical of our efforts – pragmatic and science-based, but aspirational too in the face of an undeniable climate change crisis. We set out to build our resilience as an organisation of passionate, committed people, at the same time as we build the resilience of Victoria’s biodiversity and precious habitats. Our landscape-scale focus is more important than ever, and our partners are with us.

With our powerful covenanting tool, it’s the journey we were created to undertake. And this plan is our roadmap.

Gayle Austen, Chair, Trust for Nature

Key initiatives for the next five years

  • Add 35,000 hectares of priority conservation land on privately owned land to Victoria’s protected area network.

  • Work with partners to restore 5,000 hectares of private land in priority areas.

  • Maintain and improve the quality of Trust for Nature’s protected habitat.

  • Increase our partnerships, reach and impact to help Victorians protect nature on private land.

  • Substantially grow our annual revenue from the public, private and philanthropic sectors to support private land conservation.

  • We have a safe and inclusive workplace, and our people are motivated and supported to achieve strategic conservation.

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