NRCT Proud to support 2025 Nuffield Scholar, Tom Polkinghorne
NRCT table banner at the Nuffield Award Dinner in Launceston earlier this month. In September, Tom Polkinghorne was announced as the NRCT-sponsored 2025 Nuffield Scholar. The $40,00 bursary from NRCT will allow Tom to study how livestock producers, under increasing pressure to be productive and efficient, can rise to this challenge while achieving environmental outcom
Our news, naturally – Spring edition
We start this update with congratulations to 2025 Nuffield Scholar, Tom Polkinghorne who NRCT is proud to sponsor as Tom studies how livestock producers, under increasing pressure to be productive and efficient, can rise to this challenge while achieving environmental outcomes. “I believe productive and efficient farms and farming systems which incorporate environ
Our news, naturally – Winter Edition
To commemorate World Environment Day on June 5, many of our Board Directors attended the free exhibition Trees: A Canopy Extraordinaire as seen in the photo below. This year’s World Environment Day focused on land restoration which is an apt theme for our ongoing mission and work. The exhibition has been so popular that we have just received news it has now
Wildlife Unlimited’s ‘Helping Hands for the Sheoak’ Initiative
Introducing Wildlife Unlimited’s ‘Helping Hands for the Sheoak’ initiative In our latest round of grants, awarded on July 17, 2024, we awarded $50,000 to Wildlife Unlimited as part of their ‘Helping Hands for the Sheoak initiative’. The grant forms part of a $100,000 silver star level collaborative, multi-partner tree planting project to build on and [&helli
Southwest Environmental Alliance
Introducing ‘Southwest Environmental Alliance’ and its climate change work In our latest round of grants, awarded on July 17, 2024, we awarded $31,870 to the Southwest Environmental Alliance (SEA) for their $49,870 Climate Change Challenges in South West Victoria Forum and associated activities. SEA is a community of people who are working together to contribute [
Euroa Arboretum’s ‘Growing Native Seed Orchard Strategy’
Introducing Euroa Arboretum’s ‘Growing Native Seed Orchard Strategy’ In our latest round of grants, awarded on July 17, 2024, we awarded $165,000 over two years to the Euroa Arboretum for stage 1 at Avenel of their Growing Native Seed Orchard Strategy. This forms part of the $370,000 project ‘Growing Climate Adapted Seed for the Goulburn […]
Welcome to Our news, naturally
Welcome to Our news, naturally. It’s been a busy time at the Natural Resources Conservation Trust with big grant news for Ballarat and Landcare Victoria choosing the two pilot Landcare networks to participate in the next stage of the New Futures for Community Landcare project, which is our largest project funded to date. Congratulations to […]
Trees: A Canopy Extraodinaire – free exhibition
Trees: A Canopy Extraordinaire exhibition celebrates, reflects and recognises the significance of trees in the local landscape over time and the essential timber industry that grew the local Dandenong community. The exhibition provides an opportunity to understand how we can sustain the tree canopy for future generations. This exhibition recognises the cultural sig
Green Links Grant awarded to Bunanyung Landscape Alliance
On Friday 1 March 2024, NRCT Executive Officer Les McLean visited Lal Lal Drain,Canadian for the exciting ministerial announcement of DEECA Green Links funding toBunanyung Landscape Alliance, a longstanding NRCT project partner. Last year the Alliancereceived a $34,000 grant from NRCT to produce a Landscape Restoration Guide featuringthe best restoration practices on