Collaboration across the landscape.

Our Mission

The GRCA (‘Gunduwa’) works collaboratively with project partners to achieve conservation outcomes across the Gunduwa region which enhance biodiversity and regional sustainability values.

Gunduwa’s primary role is to enhance, support, fund, facilitate, and/or catalyse biodiversity conservation in the Gunduwa region – enabling partners and partner organisations to plan and implement activities with demonstrable conservation and land management outcomes.

In order to achieve its Mission, Gunduwa will:

  • Manage conservation funds to achieve biodiversity and sustainability outcomes.
  • Support conservation projects that protect, manage and restore biodiversity assets.
  • Work collaboratively with project partners to ensure that regionally-significant fauna and flora and ecological communities are thriving in the region.

Our Vision

Gunduwa’s Vision is a thriving and productive regional environment where abundant and healthy native flora and fauna supports a diverse and successful regional community, and where diverse groups work together to support each other to achieve their aspirations. A region and community valued by all generations as a place to live and be.

Gunduwa’s Vision will be achieved through inclusive collaboration by multiple partners working together across the landscape to ensure that the natural environmental assets of the Gunduwa region are sustained for centuries to come – for the benefit of all elements of the natural environment and the communities who inhabit the region

Core Values

The core values of the Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association include:

  • Natural and cultural heritage.
  • Productive and practical conservation initiatives.
  • A collaborative ‘big picture’ perspective.
  • Advancing science and research.
  • Biodiversity conservation.
  • Sustainability.
  • Community.

Governance

The Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association is an incorporated organisation, managed by a democratically-elected Management Committee (as per Ministerial Statement 753).

The Management Committee is responsible for strategic oversight and governance of the Association.

The Management Committee consists of (up to) eight members with a strong connection to the region who are elected on an annual basis for a one-year term. Management Committee members are expected to have the skills, networks and willingness to oversee the growth of the Association during their term of office.

Meet the Management Committee