2025 AGM Report – Achievements to date
Over the past five years, the Nature Restoration Alliance Australia (formerly Restoration Decade Alliance) has grown from a shared idea into a nationally connected network advancing ecological restoration across Australia. Initiated by our major patron, the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA), and launched at the 2021 SERA conference in Darwin alongside the signing of the Darwin Agreement, our alliance has emerged from a strong foundation of collaboration between restoration organisations, and from a clear need for a unified voice during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and beyond.
Since then, NRAA’s membership has expanded to 26 organisations spanning NGOs and larger restoration businesses. A major milestone has been supporting more than 80 per cent of members to become formally recognised Actors in the UN Decade, strengthening Australia’s contribution to a global restoration effort and enabling our alliance to be recognised as a Supporting Partner in the UN Decade. Alongside this, NRAA has built active relationships with Australian Government departments, particularly through ongoing engagement with the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Taskforce, to help ecological restoration become well represented in national policy conversations.
NRAA’s work has focused on creating space for shared learning, coordinated advocacy and clear restoration leadership. This has included a strong program of webinars and workshops, a landmark in-person workshop at the World Restoration Conference in 2023, and a growing body of submissions and policy input on matters such as Global Biodiversity Framework Target 2 and the Nature Repair Market. In 2024, this collective effort culminated in the publication of RDA’s position statement calling for a national approach to nature-positive restoration in Australia (available to download from this website). Current focus is on the advocacy to governments at all levels to remove regulatory barriers to restoration in Australia.
In 2026, as the UN Decade passed its midpoint, NRAA has secured its long term legal incoporation and is moving toward greater organisational maturity. Our work reflects an alliance that is both grounded in best-practice ecological restoration and increasingly influential in shaping the policy, practice and collaboration needed to restore Australia’s diverse ecosystems at scale.
