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, land managers will undertake projects that result in verifiable 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 a Protect and Conserve method. The objective of the method is to support long-term protection and conservation of biodiversity on land across Australia. This will be achieved by supporting projects that protect existing biodiversity values, and/or to improve management of land that is already protected.
The method aims to support projects that contribute to the target to protect and conserve 30% of Australia’s landmass by 2030 (30 by 30).
Projects under the method will:
establish new, or increase the size of existing, protected and conserved areas on land, and/or
improve biodiversity outcomes for new and existing protected areas by adding or enhancing management activities.
The method complements the existing Replanting Native Forest and Woodland Vegetation method and the proposed Enhancing Native Vegetation Method.
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 for the Environment and Water on the final proposed method.
Webinar
A public webinar will be held at 1:30pm AEDT on 27 November 2025 to provide more information on the proposed Protect and Conserve method. A link to the recording and transcript will be published here when available.
Register to attend webinar.
