Land services for business

Assessing your land

Do you need help in identifying the biodiversity assets on your property? Trust for Nature’s conservation officers can undertake flora and fauna assessments, either for due diligence or land management planning. This information can help inform your decisions about land use, siting developments, or finding additional income streams such as from offset markets.

Mapping biodiversity

Our staff are experienced in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and can create mapping solutions from existing statewide databases and spatial layers to provide desktop studies, or more in-depth and accurate information from field assessments to support your business with the GIS analysis it needs to make land management decisions.

Revegetation

Trust for Nature works closely with Greening Australia, Catchment Management Authorities, and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning to attract funding for revegetation projects on private land within our priority areas, especially where revegetation supports the recovery of populations of threatened plants and animals. Revegetation projects can either supplement existing habitat, or restore habitat from the ground up.

Monitoring

Trust for Nature’s staff are experts in a range of other scientific survey methods and can design a monitoring program that allows you to report on your corporate citizenship goals. We regularly conduct surveys for flora and fauna, using a range of specialised techniques including catch-and-release trapping, trail cameras, quadrat surveys, pitfall trapping and spotlighting transects.

Please note that permits are required for some types of monitoring – Trust for Nature holds relevant permits for all the work that we do.

Pest plant and animal control

Trust for Nature’s conservation staff can help you to meet your obligations under the Victorian Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 to tackle the problem of weeds and pests. We can create pest plant and animal management plans for your property portfolio, and work with contractors to implement pest plant and animal control programs. Trust for Nature is proud to be increasingly working with Victoria’s traditional owner groups in delivering these types of programs. 

Trust for Nature's biodiversity offset program offers businesses a means of meeting your planning permit requirements, and landowners funding to support the management of their land for environmental purposes.

Under State and Federal legislation, the unavoidable removal of native vegetation on one site may require the protection and enhancement of similar vegetation at another. A biodiversity offset is an agreement where a landowner undertakes to protect and improve the quality of native vegetation on their land to permit the approved removal of vegetation elsewhere.

Trust for Nature matches businesses who have an offset requirement with landowners who have suitable vegetation. We develop an offset agreement and a covenant for the landowner that creates a legal obligation to improve native vegetation over a 10 year period and protect it forever. Under the offset agreement, the business provides funds to the landowner to meet this legal obligation. Trust for Nature facilitates this payment as well as the documentation required to meet planning approvals. As part of the offset agreement, your business will be required to fund the cost of the offset obligations on the landowner’s property. This payment is made as a lump sum to Trust for Nature who will distribute the funds to the landowner over the 10 year agreement. Once the lump sum payment has been made, your business typically has no further obligations to implement the offset, unless specifically identified in the planning approval.

Ready to talk about conservation options for your business?