Increased knowledge and awareness in the community will result in increased adoption of positive attitudes, enhanced personal confidence, better skills and improved on-ground results for natural resource management. This target addresses organisational skills, as well as the individual capacity, needed to bring individuals and groups together and manage their natural resource management activities effectively and efficiently.

At least one in five active natural resource management participants need to have appropriate skills to enable them to be able to participate independently or manage others. This ratio needs to stay constant as the number of people in the region increases and as people age or leave the area. For effective delivery, at least 200 new people need to be trained each year to keep up with the targeted growth in participation.

Currently, around 5% of the population of the ACT is engaged in natural resource management. Increasing this number to 10% by 2030 means that at least 270 new entrants adults) need to be trained each year.

Neither of these calculations allows for practitioners ageing or withdrawing, nor for their need to update their skills from time to time. If 10% do a refresher or new course every year that adds an additional 500 training opportunities each year. It is unrealistic to expect that more than 10% of the population will become involved in the longer term.