Call for Abstracts for these concurrent Session Topics

** We encourage submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, land managers and organisations across all topics and intend to ensure adequate integration of content into each session. See also specific Aboriginal Led sessions below.
 

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Private land conservation in practice:

Case studies, initiatives and programs that are delivering enduring outcomes for private land conservation and restoration. Abstracts showcasing cross-sector partnerships and demonstrating lessons learned, and/or how challenges were overcome will be well-received. Likely to be an abundance of submissions, and we won’t be able to select them all - so make your submission count.
 Land and Water 

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Connectivity conservation:

Seeking examples of collaboration and landscape connectivity projects that apply novel approaches to working across landscapes and demonstrate the practical interrelationship of economic, social and cultural connectivity. 
 Land and Water  People and Place 

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Conservation in productive landscapes:

Case studies from productive landholders and industry groups implementing innovative conservation programs within/adjacent to productive properties. Case studies may include projects implemented through supported conservation programs, measuring and demonstrating impact, demonstrations where market drivers or incentives support production and conservation together.
 Land and Water  Economics and Finance 

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Future Leaders:

Seeking abstracts for: programs that are targeting the next generation; outcomes delivered through or by early career starters; succession planning in conservation, restoration and land management; stories of the transfer of knowledge between generations related to nature. 
 Future Leaders 

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First Nations:

We encourage submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, land managers and organisations across all topics and intend to ensure adequate integration of content into each session. Noting that there have been specific sessions in the program assigned to be First Nations led sessions we invite submissions that showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led initiatives and programs that are delivering enduring outcomes for nature and culture, that share insights, successes and explore challenges. In recognising that accessibility may be a challenge due to remote working environments, we may also be able to integrate on-country pre-recorded video content – advise through your abstract submission if this would be preferred.
 First Nations 

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Health and wellbeing:

The intersect of nature and health and wellbeing has never been more apparent.  Research has shown the benefits of actions such as tree planting on farms for social connectedness and being in natural areas for improved mental health and wellbeing.  This session will share knowledge and experience from programs that are at the cutting edge of this nature/health/community interface.
 People and Place 

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Data and tools for evaluating nature:

Are you developing, testing or implementing tools and or monitoring and evaluating frameworks that measure biodiversity and/or natural capital on privately managed land? If so, we want to hear about it. How and where are they being applied – and for what purpose? What are they measuring and is it working? How are the tools/measures contributing to long-term biodiversity outcomes?

 Land and Water 

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Science and knowledge:

Abstracts are sought for emerging science, ecological research and knowledge advances that are leading to and supporting the development, delivery and adaptation of private land conservation practice.

 Land and Water 

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Business for Nature:

Are you a business that is or is seeking to understand and improve your relationship with nature? Are you a business that has developed a nature positive strategy? Have you begun piloting a natural capital accounting or Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework? Does your business support or implement conservation, nature-based solutions or natural capital? Are you an Aboriginal-led business focused on delivering impacts/outcomes for nature and culture?
 Economics and Finance 

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Markets for Nature:

Abstracts are sought for projects, concepts or policy that have been created around emerging nature-based markets. These could include voluntary nature-related markets, method development related to carbon co-benefit or nature markets, or evaluation and integrity assurances.
 Economics and Finance