The Nature Spend Tracker provides the first ever national picture of how much Australia spends on nature each year.
The Tracker consolidates federal, state and territory, private and philanthropic nature funding into a single, repeatable biodiversity spend baseline.
This is Australia's first systematic attempt to trace flows of money spent on nature, a landmark step toward greater financial transparency. While data availability, accessibility and comparability presents ongoing challenges, the Tracker establishes a rigorous and credible foundation from which a more complete picture can be built over time.
A deliberately conservative starting estimate ensures the integrity of the dataset, with the scope intentionally designed to expand. Future iterations will broaden the range of delivery mechanisms and contributors recognised, including First Nations, private companies and community-led stewardship - reflecting the full diversity of how nature is managed across Australia.
By placing this initial dataset in the public domain, the Tracker supports more informed discussion, greater transparency, and a stronger collective ability to identify trends, gaps and opportunities for sustaining and growing nature spend. Third parties to apply the data to their own use cases as they see fit.
In its first year, ALCA will take an active, iterative approach - engaging targeted stakeholders to unlock additional and disaggregated datasets, continuously strengthening the Tracker's coverage and utility. From year two onward, ALCA will update the Tracker annually.
An Insights Report with summary findings is also available.
