2025 National NRM Knowledge Conference - 8-12 September

2025 National NRM Knowledge Conference – 8-12 September

Help make the 9th NRM Knowledge Conference ‘Changing landscapes and new horizons’ the best ever by contributing abstracts and ideas! To be held in Cairns and surrounding regions.

Program overview: 8 – 12 September 2025

Monday – Workshops (in and around Cairns)
Tuesday & Wednesday – Conference at Cairns Convention Centre
Thursday & Friday – Field trips

Calling for abstracts!

This year marks 25 years since the regional natural resource management model was agreed in Australia, and our September conference is a chance to share and celebrate everything we have learned – and to prepare for the next 25 years.

This year’s conference theme ‘Changing Landscapes and New Horizons’ reflects both the challenges we face in caring for our changing environment, and the profound impact that integrated landscape management can have in restoring Australia’s unique natural places. It will also explore the innovation and ingenuity that the sector is embracing as we move to tackle the wicked problems of our times.

Our sector’s conference is for anyone working or interested in natural resource management – an opportunity to share, learn and inspire. Working with others is key to the success of natural resource management. We’d love you to be involved no matter where you come from and how you contribute to natural resource management – in your local bush group, on your tractor, crunching data, managing Indigenous lands, running grants programs… We all play diverse roles across the country and we want to hear from you.

We look forward to seeing you in Cairns!

Calling for abstracts

Are you interested in presenting?

We are now calling for abstracts and guidelines can be found here.

Whether a longer presentation, a poster or an NRM problem for our hackathon we’d love your contribution. Partnerships are key to successful NRM, so please feel free to work with others on your submission!

The web portal to submit an abstract will open here soon (24 March), so please start thinking about how you can contribute to this year’s conference. There is the opportunity to submit abstracts for long or short presentations, posters, videos, panel sessions and more. Abstract guidelines are available below.

The conference will follow an arc across the two days. Our themes are:

Where we stand; seeing the landscape clearly. Understanding our environmental, social and economic reality and the trajectory of our landscapes. What helps us to understand our current situation and the challenges we face?
Rethinking the future; shifting the trajectory. What is critical in shifting the trajectory of the nature and climate crises? Let’s challenge conventional approaches and reimagine systems.
Turning vision into action; catalysing investment, delivery and transformation. How do we fund, scale and implement solutions through finance, innovation and partnerships? How are we innovating to make new opportunities and create change?