Regional Landcare Facilitators - Applicant guidelines now available
Funding will be provided under this initiative for organisations to employ a Landcare facilitator to provide, within a specific natural resource management (NRM) region, ongoing coordination and support for Landcare groups and networks of community volunteers working on and off-farm to encourage improved sustainable farm and land management practices and ecosystem services and landscape scale conservation.
One of Australia's most successful grassroots movements - Landcare
|
Radio National, Canberra
Bush Telegraph: 18 Mar 2010 11:45AM
|
|
Compere: Michael Mackenzie
|
Boobook Declaration
The Boobook Declaration is a call to the Australian Government to take four essential actions in 2010 to safeguard Australia’s rich and beautiful diversity of plants, animals and ecosystems. The declaration arose from an informal meeting of groups and individuals concerned at the lengthening catalogue of bad news about collapsing ecosystems and recognising the impetus for action represented by the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
Experts undervalue the environment: Henry
PETER MARTIN ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT
Sydney Morning Herald
March 6, 2010
THE Treasury boss Ken Henry has taken a swipe at the work of his own department and that of others on valuing the environment, saying much of it is flawed and fails to give proper weight to retaining Australia's unique biodiversity
Fresh from producing the as-yet-unreleased Henry Tax Review and amid preparations for this year's budget, Dr Henry told an environment conference in Sydney that the part of his intergenerational report that had received the least attention was the section on environmental sustainability.
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan: Primary Industries - comment
The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility is seeking comments on the draft National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan: Primary Industries.
Tax plan mustn't ignore nature's coming backlash
Ross Gittens, The Sydney Morning Herald
November 2, 2009
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle
A vicious cycle is leaving nonprofits so hungry for decent infrastructure that they can barely function as organizations—let alone serve their beneficiaries.
Landcare Central Newsletter (USA)
September 2009
Dear landcare practitioners and supporters,
This first e-newsletter is intended to provide a brief update on several
landcare initiatives in the United States in 2009. The items listed below
are just the tip of the iceberg regarding the landcare movement and industry
in America. Since the 2007 National Landcare Workshop, much progress has
been made in advancing the landcare movement and industry in the United
States. Congratulations to all who have helped make these accomplishments
possible!
"NRM funding under fire"
Federal funding for natural resources management (NRM), including the Landcare movement, has become a “closed shop” that is undermining regional and local efforts, a damning new Senate report says.
An inquiry by the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport, chaired by Nationals Senator Fiona Nash, looked at three decades of NRM programs and found that the latest versions misstook the forest for the trees.
"Fears the land is losing its goodwill"
Australia's Landcare volunteers have been ''alienated and disenfranchised'' by the Rudd Government's $2.5 billion Caring for Our Country environmental grants scheme, a Senate report says.
The hard-hitting report, tabled yesterday by the Senate's rural and regional affairs committee, stops short of calling the program a failure but recommends a comprehensive overhaul.
