Archive for December, 2014

Paying farmers for environmental stewardship

Recently I participated in an interesting workshop in Canberra, organised to discuss the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes in delivering conservation outcomes in Australia. ‘Paying farmers for biodiversity – agri-environment schemes in Australia’ involved ecologists, economists, managers and policy-makers from around the country, and was organised by three early career researchers, Fiona Gibson (UWA) together with David […]

Posted 20 December 2014 in News

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Making sense of woodland bird data

Over the past couple of years Natural Decisions has been working closely with Kilter Rural and Accounting for Nature (AfN) to develop an environmental accounting method for woodland birds. The method, originally accredited in November 2021, has since been trialled extensively on Kilter managed properties in northern Victoria, which has led to a number of […]

Natural Decisions, in collaboration with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, have developed a Tullaroop Integrated Catchment Management Plan (ICMP) for the North Central CMA and Central Highlands Water. The Tullaroop catchment provides a range of additional environmental, social, cultural and economic values to communities in central Victoria. It supplies drinking water for the […]

Natural Decisions recently completed a project to better protect the Barham water supply catchment. The work was conducted in partnership with Naturallogic (http://naturallogic.org) and Water Futures (https://waterfutures.net.au). The Barham catchment, in the southern Victorian Otways region, supplies drinking water to the communities of Apollo Bay, Marengo and Skenes Creek, and surrounding rural settlements. A participatory […]

In 2020 Natural Decisions has been pleased to work with Kilter Rural in support of their work to develop environmental accounts for their properties in northern Victoria. We have a long and productive collaboration with Kilter Rural, which extends back to 2004 when they first established their FFL Winlaton farmlands near Lake Boga. On 9000 […]

Higher summer temperatures and greater frequency of extreme temperature events are major climate change related threats in the Mallee. A project, funded by DELWP, Agriculture Victoria and the Mallee CMA, was developed to model yield impacts on irrigated horticulture crops (citrus, grapes and almonds) under current and future (2030, 2050 and 2070) climate scenarios and […]

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