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Citizen Science for Summer fun

Landcare NSW has compiled a short list of citizen science projects happening across NSW for environmentalists and enthusiasts to get involved in.

Support for regional mental health growing through connections

How seriously do you take your mental health and is it the same as looking after any other part of your body? This is a question that Gotcha4Life Chairman and Founder, Gus Worland, asks communities.
“Our partnership with Landcare NSW will help create and facilitate these conversations. The past couple of years have been devastating for so many rural and regional communities so we’re working with Landcare NSW to help provide support where it is needed most.”

MEDIA RELEASE: Four new Life Members to Landcare NSW Honour Roll

Landcare NSW welcomed four new Honorary Life Members recently when their AGM was held in Sydney.
Praising their dedication to the movement, role in the development of Landcare NSW and the NSW Landcare movement and guiding the direction of all levels of Landcare, Landcare NSW Chair Steph Cameron said she was pleased to be able to honour their achievements.

Media Release: Landcare NSW and OzFish driving fish habitat improvements in NSW

The Landcare NSW and OzFish partnership to deliver improved fish habitat in NSW has achieved close to one million dollars of habitat restoration work in its first twelve months.
With an initial investment from the NSW Recreational Fishing Trusts of $200 000, the two groups have attracted an additional $330,000 cash investment and over $500,000 in-kind support into fish habitat restoration work for the state’s inland rivers and coastal waterways.

Media Release: RETHINK, RENEW, RECHARGE: 2022 NSW LANDCARE & LOCAL LAND SERVICES CONFERENCE

Landcarers from around the state will converge on the far north coast community of Tweed Heads in 2022 for the NSW Landcare and Local Land Services Conference ‘Rethink, Renew, Recharge’.
It will now take place on 15-17 March 2022 at the Twin Towns Conference and Function Centre in Tweed Heads.

Meet the 2021 Landcare NSW Council and Executive Committee

During the Landcare NSW Inc. Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 18 November, Landcare NSW members nominated six Landcare Council Members and three Independent Representatives to the 2021 Executive Committee. The endorsed Regional representatives were unopposed thereby being automatically selected.

Building connections and knowledge throughout the NSW Landcare and Aboriginal community

Building understanding and collaboration is a key component of Aboriginal cultural understanding and NSW Landcarers are developing those skills with the introduction and an increase of regional and local community workshops.

Landcare NSW welcomes new skills-based members to Executive Committee

At the recent Annual General Meeting held in Sydney on 18 November 2020, the members of Landcare NSW appointed three new skills-based members to the Executive Committee. The three new directors were recommended by the Nominations & Governance Sub-committee following an expression of interest process.

Landcare NSW ‘Working Together’ with Aboriginal communities during NAIDOC Week

Landcare NSW today celebrated a new look for the ‘Working Together’ Aboriginal Landcare Engagement Program to mark NAIDOC Week. The Aboriginal Landcare Engagement Program is part of the NSW Landcare Program, a $22.4 million investment co-delivered by Landcare NSW and NSW Local Land Services and supported by the NSW Government.