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
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
Thank you Stephen!
Executive Officer, Les McLean presents outgoing Cranbourne West Project Manager, Stephen Clement with a signed Rosemary Woodford Ganf print “The Great Red Kangaroo” in recognition of his work on NRCL’s Cranbourne West Project over the last two years. Stephen has led the sale and settlement of Lot 1 on behalf of NRCL and been instrumental […]
NRCL announces innovative urban sustainability Harli development
Coinciding with the launch of “Harli, the new urban sustainable development in Cranbourne West, previous site owner Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria (NRCL) is proud to announce this innovative key urban sustainability project. “For decades, NRCL has promoted shared solutions to environmental challenges. Resolution Property Group, our chosen deve
Launch of an exciting new era for the NRCL – The Natural Resources Conservation Trust
For over 75 years, the Natural Resources Conservation League (NRCL) has been actively promoting the sustainable management of Victoria’s natural resources. A registered charity, NRCL had its origins in the devastating 1939 bushfires in Victoria. Formed in 1944, originally as the Save the Forests Campaign, NRCL has a long history of building the capacity of […
Vale Don Oberin – NRCL Life member
It is with great sadness the directors and wider community of NRCL and the Natural resources Conservation Trust pass on our sympathies to the family of life member Don Oberin on his recent passing. Don Oberin and Lynn Murrell. Don who joined the NRCL in 1972 and was twice President and life member, was a […]