Tackling Climate Change

Climate change is looming as one of the greatest threats to our environment and to NSW’s unique plants and animals.

The Nature Conservation Trust (NCT) aims to build resilience to climate change within our precious natural habitats. We are doing this in three ways:

• by improving connectivity across our landscapes so that animals and plants can migrate in response to global warming;
• by improving the resilience of biodiversity “islands” – highly biodiverse patches of remnant vegetation in a sea of cleared land – so that the animals and plants within them are given the best chance of riding out the storm; and
• by participating in the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, which is developing a climate change corridor down the entire length of the Great Dividing Range.

Part of the NCT strategy is to target, for protection, land located in mapped climate change corridors or land that adjoins existing national parks or other protected areas.

When we are assessing areas suitable for our conservation agreements and land covenanting programs we give preference to those habitats and vegetation communities that will help our native species and their landscapes adapt to the growing pressures of climate change.