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ALCA member organisations support the diverse people, places and practices that contribute to the conservation and health of privately owned and managed land.
Our members are apolitical and together we are taking the lead on some of the most pressing conservation issues. We work across Australia to restore endangered ecosystems, build the protected area estate, tackle invasive species, expand private conservation finance and funding and use nature-based solutions to tackle climate change.
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ALCA welcomes the first delivery of Federal Government funding to the Northern Territory Government to combat invasive gamba grass minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/media-releases/labor-delivers-tackling-gamba-grass-top-end Gamba grass is one of the worst and most pervasive weeds whose impacts threaten native vegetation and habitat for the Northern Territory's unique biodiversity. We outline three key recommendations to improve the NT’s Gamba Grass Weed Management program in our recent submission here: alca.org.au/alca-submission-to-the-northern-territory-governments-gamba-grass-weed-management-pla...
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The strategy provides a comprehensive framework to guide ALCA as we continue building a national voice for private land conservation.ALCA member the Australian Wildlife Conservancy has updated their brand identity, with a refreshed logo that reflects the criticality of partnership and collaboration to protect Australia’s unique biodiversity. Learn more: www.australianwildlife.org/australian-wildlife-conservancy-unveils-new-brand-identity/
Around 30 landholders and guests attended a Walk and Talk yesterday at ‘Gang Gang’ a property near Gundaroo. Organised in conjunction with NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust, the event was an opportunity for landholders to see what has been achieved at Gang Gang over 17 years of active management for biodiversity, to ask questions and get ideas to try on their own properties.
Thanks to Sue and Jon from Gang Gang for opening up their property and for sharing their extensive experience!
The event was part of the Our Natural Legacy initiative that we launched earlier this year: ournaturallegacy.org.au/
In our final #NationalBiodiversityMonth post, we bring you the story of the largest patch of black gum (Eucalyptus ovata) forest in southern Tasmania, which occurs on Egg Islands Reserve, owned and managed by Tasmanian Land Conservancy.
This forest is a critically endangered ecological community that has declined by 90% since white settlement. The forests, wetlands, riverbanks and marshes of the Egg Islands provide foraging or nesting habitat for 87 Australian bird species, including the globally endangered Australasian bittern.
tasland.org.au/reserves/egg-islands-reserve/
Photo by Rob Blakers, supplied by Tasmanian Land Conservancy
We are heartened by Prime Minister Albanese’s announcement that Australia has joined the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature.
Along with around 90 other countries, Australia is committing to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030.
In making this commitment, it puts Australia on the path to greater environmental action more aligned with the scale of action required.
Among other elements, by signing this pledge, global leaders commit to the development and full implementation of an ambitious and transformational post-2020 global biodiversity framework for adoption at the 15th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD CoP 15). COP15 is just a few months away and ALCA looks forward to working with the Australian Government as we make our way to Montreal.
Australia signs global nature pledge committing to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030
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Morrison government refused to sign Leaders’ Pledge for Nature in 2020 but Anthony Albanese signals environment is back as priority It is not just large organisations that are protecting our unique biodiversity. This #NationalBiodiversityMonth we also acknowledge the thousands of individuals who are actively managing land for nature, like those who have a covenant on their land with the support of the Trust for Nature
Meet some of the landholders who all have diverse reasons for permanently protecting their land.
trustfornature.org.au/about-us/covenantors
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Meet our covenantors Protecting land with a conservation covenant is one of the most important things a landholder can do to prevent species extinction and build nature’s resilience in a changing cl...Contact us for more info