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Co-investment Program

This partnership program focuses on large-scale conservation projects, with funding allocated over 5 years.

 

The Co-investment Program was first developed in 2018. It focuses on threatened species and ecological communities that need broad landscape-scale conservation activities to help them recover and to manage threats.

Saving our Species will co-fund almost $1.8 million in the 2021–26 round.

The more people, organisations, resources and expertise we can devote to our threatened species, the more positive outcomes we can achieve for our plants and animals facing extinction.

A superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) juvenile male perched on a tree branch

Superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii)

2021–26 co-investment partners

Benefits of a co-funding scheme

The co-investment model is a co-funding scheme. Partners are required to source financial contributions to match government investment.

Leveraging funding provides greater benefits to threatened species and ecological communities by increasing the number of conservation projects that can be delivered across New South Wales.

This contributes to the long-term aim of the Saving our Species program to secure our native plants, animals, and ecosystems for generations to come.

This investment is from the additional $75 million that has been allocated by the NSW Government to continue the Saving our Species program over the next 5 years (2021– 26).

Legislative commitment

The Co-investment Program is consistent with the Biodiversity Conservation Program delivered under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. That is, New South Wales must operate a Biodiversity Conservation Program to maximise the long-term security of all threatened species and threatened ecological communities in nature.

2018–21 co-investment partners

Our previous co-investment partners helped make the program a success in 2018–21. The continuation of this vital work with existing and new partners is essential to maintain and improve our previous investment.