February 17, 2025

Trust reaches $1 million grant making milestone In its first two years of grantmaking, the Natural Resources Conservation Trust (Trust) has awarded over $1 million to 12 different projects across Victoria. This is a significant milestone, with the grant recipients’ projects providing almost $4.3 million in value towards natural resource management initiatives across

October 3, 2024

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

October 3, 2024

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

August 6, 2024

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

April 29, 2024

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 […]

April 26, 2024

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

March 6, 2024

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

May 11, 2023

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 […]

April 20, 2023

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