Our team is partnering with the Australian National University Sustainable Farms team to create Australia’s first farm dam survey. This survey will provide critical information on:  

• • Landholder decision making  
  • Cultural ecosystem services (CES) of farm dams  
  • Perceptions of climate change  
  • Landholder willingness to accept payment for enhancing farm dams (carbon credits)
    

Our team organises citizen-science projects with farmers, scientists, and managers to promote sustainable management of farm dams. 

These events help us understand the values landholders attach to farm dams and the drivers and barriers to farm dam restoration programs. We need this information to design large-scale programs that align with landholders’ priorities and deliver public benefits. 

We aim to quantify the willingness of the general population to pay for farm dam restoration and work with the government and investors to develop financial systems to subsidise the costs of farm dam management.