Making Conservation Pay'Making Conservation Pay' is an innovative project which aims to bring economic, social and environmental benefits to northwest Victoria. The project comprises six inter-related components:
| Productivity Mapping |
Landscape Design |
| Water Management |
Alternate Grazing Systems |
| Sustainable Soils |
Habitat Management |
'Making Conservation Pay' is a regional scale project, located in the northwest of Victoria. Notional boundaries will be:
| North: |
Notionally along a line joining Swan Hill, Manangatang and Ouyen |
| South: |
Western Highway |
| East: |
East of the Avoca River to the irrigation country. |
| West: |
Wimmera River or Yarriambiak Creek. |

At a local, regional and national level, the key drivers of the project's concept and scale are:
- Changing expectations of consumers. Consumers expect safe food, clean water and environmental stewardship.
- Regional economic prosperity is dependent on production and ecological health.
- Enhancing the health and vitality of the community in which people live.
- Testing and validating sustainability theories - supporting adoption
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A symposium was held in Melbourne on 12 November 2004 outlining 'Making Conservation Pay'. Click to view:
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Speakers from L-R: Ian McClelland, David Freudenberger, Bob Belford, Andrew Weidemann, Geoff Park. |
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'Making Conservation Pay' is led by an alliance between BCG, the North Central Catchment Management Authority, the Mallee Catchment Management Authority, the CSIRO and the Buloke Biolink Project.
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