Sustainability

The sustainability of NSW’s threatened plants and animals depends on us. Our rich ecological communities can only remain diverse and productive if we humans understand and address the impacts we are having on them.

Past practices have already exacted a horrific toll on the NSW environment and its unique plant and animal species. However, it’s not too late to change our attitudes and behaviour, and to contribute to the future wellbeing of these precious habitats and species.

The Nature Conservation Trust (NCT) is demonstrating that conservation projects on private lands make a meaningful and enduring contribution to environmental sustainability. Healthy populations of plants and animals, which are protected from the threats posed by land clearing, pollution, feral pest incursions, urban development, climate change and inappropriate agricultural practices, are vastly more sustainable populations.

The NCT strategy of applying conservation land covenants to high conservation land, then supporting land owners to manage it more sustainably, is having a direct and immediate benefit across countless vegetation and ecological communities that support a plethora of species. And this practical conservation model is not just benefitting wildlife. It is also enriching the lives of individual land owners and boosting the sustainability of their communities, too.