Our 2030 Strategy - Bush Heritage Australia

We intend to deepen and double our impact by 2030 – protecting, restoring and regenerating a total of 30 million hectares of land (an area larger than the state of Victoria).

2030 strategy summary (3.2mb)

With your help, we intend to:

Significantly scale up our national conservation innovation program to enable depth of impact across the landscapes we actively manage
Double the amount of land that we directly own and manage from 1.2 million hectares to 2.4 million hectares
Deepen our support of Aboriginal Partnerships through exploring, strengthening and growing our relationships with Aboriginal partners through a right-way approach
Work with farmers and other land managers to enhance biodiversity across over 10 million hectares of agricultural land towards a more sustainable future.

Ecologist Matt Appleby working with landowners in the Tasmanian Midlands. Photo by Annette Ruzicka.

Our vision:
Healthy Country Protected Forever

Our mission:
to return the bush to good health

Our 2030 strategy:
To deepen and double our impact

STRATEGIC CONTEXT

Fire risk

Land use threats

Invasive species

Climate change

Our strategy is delivered through three impact models and shared capability

Reserves

Deepening ecological and cultural health outcomes
New reserves

Aboriginal partnerships

Deepening Healthy Country Plan delivery
New partnerships

emerging focus

Natural Capital in Agriculture

Environmental services
Biodiverse carbon capture
Natural products

Priority landscapes | Conservation innovation | Impact management

Our strategy is enabled through our people, our community, the right-way approach, science & technology and our astute use of all resources

People and culture

Safe and well

Right-way approach

Engagement and support

Data and digital

Financial rigour

Connecting people with purpose

Our success lies with our people: our committed staff, selfless volunteers, expert partners and our loyal and passionate financial supporters. To deliver these ambitious and achievable goals, we must not only grow, but deepen our organisational and operational capacity.

Conservation for a changing climate

Through in-depth research, climate modelling and analysis, we've identified the landscapes in which we can make the biggest difference, and the best strategies to help us achieve it.

Doing things with a right-way approach

Everything we do, we endeavour to do the right way. In 2021, right-way science is at the heart of our work and it is this approach that will guide us to 2030.

Natural capital in agriculture

We aspire to have influence and impact across 10 million hectares of other land uses, with a focus on conservation and biodiverse carbon outcomes in productive agricultural landscapes. We currently have diverse but modest influence in the agricultural sector. Our 2030 strategy will see us prioritise and develop this emerging area to achieve change to biodiversity outcomes, which will be largely self-funded.

Get involved

We're well-placed to achieve our 2030 goals. But we can’t get there without your support. Want to help double our impact to 30 million hectares? We’d love to hear from you: [email protected].