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WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?

Ramsar Convention

Trust for Nature (Vic)

Landcare

Trust for Nature (Aust)

 OUR VISION:
Within two decades,
protecting native plants and
wildlife on private land will
be recognised and valued as
a central part of
mainstream Australian
environmental practice.
OUR VISION:
There will be a shared
expectation and
responsibility among
communities,
landowners and
governments that
significant natural areas
on privately owned land
should be conserved,
Plains-wanderer (Pedionomus
torquatus) a threatened bird species
found in native grassland properties
like the Trusts Wanderers Plain.
WHAT DO THEY HOPE TO TRY AND ACHIEVE?

Protect native flora and fauna

Make people aware of the

expectations and responsibilities.

Create more national parks

Make the government more aware of

the environment
 WHAT ARE WE?
Trust for Nature is a not-
for-profit organisation
that works to protect
native plants and wildlife
in cooperation with
private landowners.
 WHAT ARE WE?
The Trust was
established under the
Victorian Conservation
Trust Act 1972 to enable
people to contribute
permanently to nature
conservation by
donating land or money.
 WHAT ARE WE?
We have since evolved into
one of Victorias primary
land conservation
organisations, with several
tools to help people protect
biodiversity on private land.
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Trust for Natures Spring

into Nature event at Gobur,
Goulburn Broken
WHY WAS THE TRUST ESTABLISHED?

Enable groups of people to get

together to help the environment.

Allow people to have a say about

protecting the environment.

A conspiracy by the government to

own more land

Get people to contribute permanently

to nature conservation.
 COVENANTS
In 1978 Trust for Nature was
given the powers to enter into
legal agreements with private
landowners called conservation
covenants to protect native
plants and wildlife on their land.
 COVENANTS
These covenants remain in place
even when the land changes hands.
So far, more than 47,000 hectares
of private land is protected across
Victoria through more than 1115
conservation covenants (as at
January 2012).
A COVENANT IS A SMALL AREA OF LAND SET ASIDE FOR
CONSERVATION.

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REVOLVING FUNDS
The Revolving Fund is a
tool that uses the real
estate market to achieve
conservation outcomes.
 REVOLVING FUNDS
We use funds from
bequests, donations and
government to buy land
that supports
threatened habitats.
 REVOLVING FUNDS
We then place a conservation
covenant over the properties
and sell them on to people
interested in conservation.
The proceeds of each sale go
back into the Revolving Fund
for future property purchases.
WHAT ARE REVOLVING FUNDS?

Money or land that is donated and

used to buy land to further protect
biodiversity.

Money that is laundered by the mob

Proceeds of land sales are given to the

government to be used to protect
certain environments.

Proceeds of land sales or donations

are used to educate people about the
good of Trust for Nature.
WHY WE ARE
IMPORTANT
Our native plants and wildlife
provide us with not only
important services, such as
clean water and resources,
but they are important in
and of themselves.
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Mount Elephant a Trust for Nature

property on the Victorian Volcanic
Plains, Corangamite region. Photo:
Darroch Donald