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To View Asset TRUST FOR NATURE annual report 2010-11 Published by Trust for Nature (Victoria), Melbourne, September 2011. This report is printed on paper manufactured using pulp sourced from 100% sustainable plantations using vegetable-based inks. Trust for Nature (Victoria) 5/379 Collins Street An electronic copy of this document is available on-line at Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia www.trustfornature.org.au Phone: (03) 8631 5888 Acknowledgements Fax: (03) 9614 6999 Trust for Nature gratefully acknowledges all the photographers who have provided Freecall: 1800 99 99 33 (Australia only) images for this document including Debbie Reynolds for the image of a Mallee fowl on the front cover, and Darroch Donald for the image on the inside front cover. Email: [email protected] www.trustfornature.org.au © State of Victoria, Trust for Nature 2011. This publication is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. ISSN: 1838-9732 TRUST FOR NATURE 2010-11 MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS 112 conservation covenants registered 1000th conservation covenant registered 5,383ha of Victoria protected through conservation covenants 166ha of native grassland purchased on the Avoca Plains adding to a protected network of nearly 4,000ha 730ha covenanted on the Gippsland Plains, including 158ha of endangered Plains Grassland 150ML of environmental water pumped into a wetlands at Neds Corner Station as part of The Living Murray’s environmental water allocation for the Chowilla Floodplain and Lindsay-Wallpolla Islands icon site First offset conservation covenant registered through the Native Vegetation Credit Register Table of Contents Message from the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ...................................................................................................... 4 About us ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5 2010 - 2011 Key approaches to conserving Victoria ............................................................................................................ 6 Key conservation achievements ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Conservation support ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 Victorian Conservation Trust Act Objectives ....................................................................................................................... 16 Partners ........................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Major donors .................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Finance and business ....................................................................................................................................................... 23 Our people ....................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Our organisation ............................................................................................................................................................... 26 Organisational chart .......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Community engagement achievements ............................................................................................................................. 28 Statutory compliance ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Disclosure index ............................................................................................................................................................... 31 Appendix 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 81 TRUST FOR NATURE 2010-11 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Private land conservation is our area of expertise. We have made The conservation covenant has proved to be an instrument of choice for tremendous progress in the preservation of private land across Victoria some developers and landowners to secure offset protection. We strive for the protection of important habitat during 2010 - 11. Trust for Nature to support landowners to optimise conservation. is a well-established organisation and next year, 2012, will see our At a national level, the Trust co-formed the Conservation Land Trust’s 40th anniversary. But this year we are also celebrating an important Alliance this year – a national conservation body that will work across the achievement. country to help improve the effectiveness of all private land conservation Across Victoria, more than 1000 landowners have protected their bodies. Six states are now partners to the Alliance. To support the properties, forever. We are proud to mark this important milestone and Alliance and our work in Victoria, Trust for Nature will continue to work our 1000th covenant celebrations to thank our covenantors have been with both state governments and the Australian Government to influence a huge success. In partnership with private landowners, Trust for Nature policies that impact on private land conservation. now protects over 45,000ha of significant native habitat in Victoria. Who we work with and how we work is important for the Trust. Our We acknowledge that it is no small undertaking to protect a property partnerships are at the core of what we do. This year we have for conservation and strongly commend these landowners for their established projects with partners such as Birds Australia, mecu commitment to the environment. and the Victorian and Australian Governments. Working with these For many years the Trust has aimed to build its financial resources and organisations means the Trust is able to reach a wider audience reserves. This year the Board took the decision to invest resources in and deliver a more effective private land conservation program. This strengthening the delivery of its operations and its services. As a result, is highlighted in our work to build private and philanthropic sector this year the Trust recorded the highest number of new conservation investment and commitment to conservation. Our donors and covenants in its entire history. We registered 112 new conservation supporters are integral to what we do. We’d sincerely like to thank all of covenants, up from 38 last year, and protected 5,838ha, up from those who have contributed to the Trust over the last 12 months. 926ha last year. This is testament to the dedication and hard work Trust for Nature has continued to grow and improve its delivery of of our staff in the regions, and our committed new covenanting team services to landowners and our partners. This financial year we have based in Melbourne. improved our human resources, finance and administration processes. This financial year also saw the review and development of a number The Trust negotiated and moved into a larger office space in 2011, of organisational policies and procedures. Our broad and highly skilled which has enabled us to take stock of where we have come from, Board has helped us with this task and we thank them for their ongoing where we are now and what we want to achieve over the next five years. contribution. In addition, the Trust undertook an organisation-wide Our future is expanding and so is our work. We want to reach new process of considering its future strategic direction and developed a audiences and one of our key areas of focus over the next five years five-year strategic plan. It will provide the basis for the Trust’s protection is to reconnect more Victorians with nature. We will work to engage programs to deliver effective services whilst responding to the changing with youth and Indigenous groups and share our knowledge. We ways in which landowners work to manage their land for conservation. will strengthen our connections with farmers and large agricultural It will start guiding our work from the next financial year. landowners in Victoria. Trust for Nature has made major advancements in the protection of Our covenantors are a key part of this process. We hope their three key threatened habitats in Victoria – grasslands, woodlands inspiration to protect their properties forever will ignite the vision of other and wetlands, this financial year. Our landscape-scale approach has private landowners to protect the natural assets on their land and benefit increasingly focused on the conservation and management of land from the services Trust for Nature has to offer. that reconnects these habitats and our land purchase has contributed to Australia’s National Reserve System. The Trust continues to work In accordance with the Financial Management Act 1994, we are collaboratively with other organisations and in alignment with national, pleased to present the Trust for Nature Annual Report for
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