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Growing a nature economy that restores the land and rewards the people who work it

We’re building Australia’s nature economy, and every voice added moves us there faster.

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About GANE

GANE (Growing Australia’s Nature Economy) is an alliance of farmers, Traditional Owners, investors and environmental sector leaders advocating for a strong nature-based economy.

We’re working to scale up outcomes for nature, climate, the economy and people by creating a stronger public voice. We showcase real projects already creating impact, and equip the people who can help grow a nature-based economy with the evidence and credibility to make it happen.

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We’re building a movement, and the more hands we have the faster we can move.

How to Get Involved

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Give Time

Share your success story, add your voice to our advocacy or join one of our events.

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Give Talent

Contribute your expertise in policy, advocacy, markets or on-ground project delivery.

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$500B

annual global spend required for nature repair.

$500M

Australia’s current spend on nature repair.

$1B

value carbon markets already deliver in private funding annually.

Why a Nature Economy

Repairing Australia’s land, water and wildlife at scale isn’t cheap, and no government or charity can carry the bill or the work alone. Working alongside these forms of funding, environmental markets are the key to scaling outcomes for nature, people and the economy.

We support the objective of major polluters paying for verified nature repair to offset their impact, and that money goes to those doing the repair work. It’s a win-win-win situation, and we want to see more of it.

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The Green Paper

Our Green Paper sets the case for a nature economy: the stakes, the evidence and the people already proving it works.

The paper has been shaped through decades of on-ground experience and extensive conversations with landholders, Traditional Owners, scientists, investors and policymakers from across the country.

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Featured Case Studies

Real results from real properties. See how environmental markets are already working across the country.

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NSW

How feedlot manure can store carbon in the soil

See how one farm turned feedlot waste into a carbon win, spreading manure across pastures and cropping country to feed the soil and lift its carbon content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcw3L5boWbc

NSW

The carbon credits that changed this farm

Carbon credit income has funded 250km of fencing and waterpoint trap yards at the Rossers’ – infrastructure that lets the landscape rest and repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNV4Y-hbgRA

NSW

More cattle. Better country. And carbon cash.

Farmers doubling stock density and building longer recovery periods are seeing grass grow where it never has before, backed by carbon credits and government grants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qahB_t0Zv_U

QLD

They turned a paddock back into rainforest

Penny has proved the sceptics wrong, regenerating rainforest on her property in just ten years with carbon income funding the comeback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KFhq7McpM

QLD

Bare dirt, 66,000 carbon credits. Look at it now.

Find out how rotational grazing helps store carbon in soil while improving stock health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cju2KrYeL6I

NSW

The invisible fence transforming this farm

A multi-species cover crop is doing double duty at Cleavecourt, feeding cattle later in the year while building carbon and water-holding capacity in the soil underneath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNh_qslKkCQ