ALCA has submitted a commitment to the Convention on Biological Diversity under the Global Biodiversity Framework targets, to double private protected areas by 2030.
Conservation on private and non‑government land already protects many of Australia’s most threatened and under‑represented ecosystems. Building on this, our sector has committed to doubling Australia’s private protected areas by 2030.
Private protected areas are one of the strongest pathways Australia has to meet national and global biodiversity targets. Our sector has decades of experience and is already delivering significant outcomes for nature.
Our commitment outlines how we will work with government and across the sector to support land managers to protect significant ecosystems, including through First Nations–led approaches and permanent protection agreements.
Our members generate more than AUD $400 million in annual revenue, and will continue to leverage this to expand and manage private protected areas. But this will not be enough. If Australia is serious about meeting its 2030 targets, government investment must increase substantially to support and scale the work we already do.
The Australian Government has submitted its own self‑assessment to the Convention on Biological Diversity, on how it’s tracking towards Global Biodiversity Framework targets. While the government presents Australia as “on track” across all targets – and there is important progress – the assessment relies heavily on caveats, including questioning the relevance of indicators, pointing to data gaps, critiquing global datasets, and emphasising performance relative to global averages rather than real-world outcomes.
