Enhancing Remnant Vegetation Pilot

Overview

Together with the Carbon + Biodiversity Pilot, the Enhancing Remnant Vegetation Pilot is trialling mechanisms to pay farmers for improving biodiversity on farms under the Agriculture Stewardship Package. This pilot aims to trial market-based approaches to enhancing native remnant vegetation on farms through locally adapted management protocols developed by the Australian National University in consultation with Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisations in our six trial regions. Successful farmers could be eligible to receive payments to manage and enhance existing remnant native vegetation on-farm over a period of 10 years. The Enhancing Remnant Vegetation Pilot is part of the wider $66.1 million Agriculture Stewardship Package, an Australian Government commitment to improve biodiversity stewardship on farms.  This pilot is being run in the six Agriculture Stewardship Natural Resource Management (NRM) regions: •  Burnett-Mary, Queensland; •  Central West, New South Wales; •  North Central in Victoria; •  NRM North in Tasmania; •  Eyre Peninsula in South Australia;  •  South West in Western Australia.