Grants, Incentives, Rebates....
Ecologically Friendly Options
The Climate Fund of the NSW Dept of Environment & Climate Change offers a range of residential rebates for water efficient devices and appliances.
Catchment Management Authorities also offer a range of grants, financial incentives and opportunities for land owners and managers to improve the agricultural and conservation values of their land.
Grantslink provides a central point for listing of Federal Grants which may assist rural landowners economically improve the conservation and wildlife habitat amenity of their land whilst maintaining or enhancing agricultural productivity.
Natural and cultural heritage values on private land can be protected and conserved, including from mining.
The NPWS NSW offers a range of agreements that can help land owners achieve a balance between agricultural use and conservation for their land.
Of major relevance in the Wybong (esp the Ridgelands area) is the Greater Eastern Ranges initiative which aims for a continuum of native forest, wooland and grassland types from the Australian Alps north of Melbourne to the Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns.
The aim is for Governments, private and public landholders and the general community in the initiative region to work together to help people, native plants and animals adapt to future environmental threats by reconnecting 'islands' of fragmented natural ecosystems and also spiritual places and Country that are important to Aboriginal Australians, and significant post-1788 cultural heritage.
The major 'gap' in the continuum of the Greater Eastern Ranges is the Hunter Valley of NSW.
The area of greatest potential for reconnection of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Region with the Greater Eastern Rainforests World Heritage Region lies through the Upper Hunter - from Sandy Hollow through Ridgelands to Moonan.