Overview
The Nature Repair Market is a legislated voluntary national biodiversity market designed to increase investment in nature and deliver high integrity biodiversity outcomes. Under the Market, landholders will undertake projects that result in specific measurable biodiversity outcomes.
We undertake a range of consultation activities on key elements of the scheme, including methods. Methods set out how Nature Repair Market projects must be carried out.
We are proposing an Enhancing Native Vegetation method. The proposed method would support projects on areas of Australia’s landscape that have historically experienced widespread clearing of native vegetation.
Projects could:
restore native vegetation through revegetation and facilitated regeneration
enhance the ecosystem condition of remnant vegetation for biodiversity
maintain the ecosystem condition of good-quality remnant vegetation.
The proposed method allows flexibility for projects to restore, enhance and/or maintain native vegetation.
It builds on the Replanting Native Forest and Woodland Vegetation method and the Enhancing Remnant Vegetation pilot, among other things.
We are seeking feedback on the design of the proposed method. We will consider stakeholder feedback alongside expert advice to prepare a final proposed method.
The Nature Repair Committee will undertake statutory consultation in the first half of 2026 to inform their advice to the Minister on the final proposed method.
