About the Conference
The need to protect, manage, and restore nature is at an all-time high. Addressing the interconnected crises of nature loss and climate change requires bold, scalable action—starting at the local level.
Across Australia and beyond, diverse communities, businesses, and organisations are leading with solutions that tackle the biggest environmental challenges of our time by enabling, delivering, and scaling conservation, land management, and restoration action.
The 2025 ALCA Conference will showcase these efforts, celebrating the people and partnerships driving this work: from Australia’s First Nations leaders to dedicated conservation, farming and business professionals, community volunteers, and local champions— their collective onground efforts strengthen the cross-sector and cross-cultural solutions we urgently need.
The conference will demonstrate the strong business case for backing local action, and explore how to unlock opportunities, overcome challenges, and align local initiatives and innovations with national and global biodiversity and climate goals.
With almost 200 countries rallying to deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework, it is a pivotal time for conservation practitioners and decision-makers across all sectors to come together, to collaborate and share insights, amplify local nature action, and drive transformative change for a healthier, more resilient planet.
Who attends?
Now in its 9th year, the ALCA Conference continues to grow in reach and relevance as the private land conservation sector’s work becomes more broadly recognised as an essential strategy for safeguarding Australia’s environmental, economic, cultural and social well-being.
The ALCA Conference is Australia’s premier nature conservation event. It brings together more than 400 conservation practitioners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and land managers, government policymakers, landholders, researchers, business and finance thought leaders, industry experts, and community champions, all working to advance collective impact for nature.
About the Australian Land Conservation Alliance
The Australian Land Conservation Alliance is the peak national body for organisations that protect, steward and restore nature on privately owned or managed land.
ALCA supports its members to scale their impact for people and nature by delivering sector development initiatives, advocating for good policy and regulation, driving nature investment, and growing Australia’s understanding of the value of private land conservation. Together, we are a powerful force for nature.
ALCA receives ongoing support from multi-year funding partners, whose long-term commitments bolster ALCA's organisational capacity. It enables ALCA to pursue its goal to grow a diverse, highly capable and well-resourced sector that safeguards and restores Australia's privately managed land and water. Convening an annual conference and delivering it in a way that is inclusive for all is just one way that ALCA works towards achieving this goal.
