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Landcare is People Care

Landcare is People Care

Opinion Editorial: Turlough Guerin, Landcare NSW CEO Not a day goes by when we are not bombarded by depressing news that would lead us to believe we are fighting a losing battle in the protection of our natural environment. Climate change, loss of biodiversity, soil and waterway degradation, loss of agricultural productivity – the list [...]

LANDCARE NSW WELCOMES FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT BY NSW LABOR

LANDCARE NSW WELCOMES FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT BY NSW LABOR

Landcare NSW has welcomed the announcement made by the NSW Labor Party to commit $59 million to the next phase of the NSW Landcare Program. Landcare NSW CEO Turlough Guerin said this support is much appreciated and will go a long way towards stopping the decline of the environment. “On behalf of Landcare groups across [...]

Richmond Landcare leads the way in reconciliation with launch of new Reflect RAP

Richmond Landcare leads the way in reconciliation with launch of new Reflect RAP

Richmond Landcare has set an inspiring precedent for reconciliation by being the first Landcare group in NSW to have its Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) endorsed by Reconciliation Australia. Richmond Landcare - Reflect Reconcilitation Action Plan (RAP) The Reflect RAP outlines the group’s dedication to increasing cultural awareness and knowledge, promoting engagement strategies, and building [...]

The future of the NSW Landcare Program beyond June 2023

The future of the NSW Landcare Program beyond June 2023

Landcare NSW is seeking funding to continue and scale up its grassroots efforts tackling climate action in local communities, developing stronger connections between Landcare and Aboriginal Communities, and driving sustainable agriculture on ground environmental outcomes across the state. Leading into the NSW State Election on Saturday, 25 March 2023, Landcare NSW is calling on all [...]

Blog: Down The Track monitoring Lake Cargelligo’s big backyard

Blog: Down The Track monitoring Lake Cargelligo’s big backyard

At Lake Cargelligo in western New South Wales, a local youth group helps with ecological monitoring of the big lake and the islands within it by camping out at least four times each year. Down The Track Island trip February 2023 The monitoring is run by local biologist and Landcare Coordinator Adam Kerezsy, and local [...]

MidCoast 2 Tops Landcare Celebrate Private Land Conservation

MidCoast 2 Tops Landcare Celebrate Private Land Conservation

Saturday 18th February saw the gathering of over 50 conservation-minded Landholders from MidCoast 2 Tops Landcare Connections’ Private Land Conservation (PLC) program, along with dignitaries and staff from partnering agencies - the Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT), Landcare NSW and MidCoast Council (MCC). The PLC program has been running for around 18 months and was designed [...]

Greens MP calls on the major parties to make Landcare funding commitment

Greens MP calls on the major parties to make Landcare funding commitment

Landcare NSW has welcomed the announcement by Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment, Sue Higginson, who has called on both Labor and the Coalition to join The Greens NSW and take a tri-partisan approach to the NSW Landcare program and deliver a $59 million funding commitment over the next four years. Landcare NSW CEO [...]

More funding to grow Sydney's tree canopy

More funding to grow Sydney’s tree canopy

11 February, 2023 An extra $10 million has been committed to tackle urban heat in Greater Sydney, enabling the planting of a further 400,000 trees over the next three years. The funding has been awarded to Landcare NSW and Greening Australia, which will each plant 200,000 trees in areas with low canopy cover, including parks, [...]

Regional Coordinators deliver a range of Regional Community of Practice events

Regional Coordinators deliver a range of Regional Community of Practice events

The Landcare movement is a diverse community. This diversity is one of its biggest strengths, but also one of its biggest challenges, especially when the goal is to empower Landcarers to meet their own priorities and outcomes. It requires capacity to respond to these diverse needs in a way that is locally appropriate. Regional Landcare […]

Community in Action - Landcare responding to Landslides

Community in Action – Landcare responding to Landslides

When the extreme rainfall events on the Northern Rivers in February and March 2022 hit it resulted in widespread landslides and devastating impacts across the Northern Rivers. Numerous landholders had internal roads cut off, fences wiped out, paddocks disfigured, hillsides slumped, and forested areas collapsed. This was beyond the scale experienced within living memory leaving [...]

Landcare NSW to deliver $1.9 million Project in Disaster Preparedness and Prevention across NSW

Landcare NSW to deliver $1.9 million Project in Disaster Preparedness and Prevention across NSW

MEDIA RELEASE 14/12/2022 Landcare NSW has been announced as one of ten successful funding recipients who will share in almost $13 million from the Australian and New South Wales governments. The joint funding is being provided to educational institutions, Government agencies and not-for-profit organisations through the State Risk Reduction stream of the Disaster Risk Reduction […]

Blog: Healing Country & Community with Good Fire Practices in the Upper Shoalhaven

Blog: Healing Country & Community with Good Fire Practices in the Upper Shoalhaven

Mosaic Burning Supported by the Upper Shoalhaven Landcare Local Landcare Coordinator (LLC), Erin Brinkley, this project was born from the Black Summer Bushfires which burnt over 250,000ha in the Upper Shoalhaven Landcare region. The fires caused significant biodiversity loss, removal of critical habitat, extreme soil erosion and reduced water quality. In addition, there was a [...]

Boorowa Community Landcare Group Grazing and Biodiveristy Tour

Boorowa Community Landcare Group Grazing and Biodiveristy Tour

Author: Review by David Marsh, Boorowa Community Landcare Group, 18 November 2022 The weather gods were kind and our long-awaited bus trip set off with almost forty participants, from Queen Street, Boorowa, at seven thirty sharp. The day was perfect and recent rainfall dictated that the coach was not to leave the road for fear […]

Flourishing Biodiversity at Naree Station

Flourishing Biodiversity at Naree Station

The Mulga lands bio region are often characterised by a hot, persistently dry, semi-arid climate but the landscape on ‘Naree Station’ currently sits more under a moisture-based landscape with the rains that have spread across the state turning the station to a wildlife haven for birds and aquatic creatures. Red dirt, now mud, defines the [...]

Be alert for Cane Toads

Be alert for Cane Toads

Author: NSW Dept of Primary Industries Invasive Species Biosecurity Team In September 2022, six Cane Toads were initially found and reported by a rural landholder in Mandalong area in the Hunter Region. The toads were found at the premises around the farm dwelling and surrounding sheds, and it is unclear as to origin of the […]

Creating Connected Resilient Communities - Eat Dirt heads to the beach!

Creating Connected Resilient Communities – Eat Dirt heads to the beach!

'Eat Dirt' a program aimed at connecting students to Country, nature and each other is coming to an end for 2022 and to celebrate the group from Bellingen High School headed out to Hungry Head Beach in Urunga to hear some stories from Uncle Micklo and swim in the ocean under the watchful eyes of [...]

Landcare NSW Appoints First Aboriginal Board Director

Landcare NSW Appoints First Aboriginal Board Director

Mr Rene Woods, has become the first Aboriginal on the Landcare NSW Board, following his appointment to the director position reserved for an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person at the Landcare NSW Annual General Meeting held in Sydney last month. Mr Woods appointment demonstrates Landcare NSW’s commitment to increase opportunities to consciously develop stronger [...]

Shop Local this Christmas by visiting one of Landcare NSW Members nurseries and invest back into the environment by buying local seeds and plants propagated by our Landcarers

Buy Local – Support Landcare NSW Members Nurseries

Shop Local this Christmas by visiting one of Landcare NSW Members nurseries and invest back into the environment by buying local seeds and plants propagated by our Landcarers

NSW Government one million tree milestone reached

NSW Government one million tree milestone reached

The planting of a ceremonial tree has marked the completion of the NSW Government’s ambitious plan to get one million trees in the ground by the end of the year. Minister for Planning and Minister for Homes Anthony Roberts planted the millionth tree in Camden, alongside Camden Mayor Therese Fedeli, during a community planting day [...]

Partnering In Private Land Conservation Project a highlight for community

Partnering In Private Land Conservation Project a highlight for community

Landcare Coordinators, Project Managers and Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) partners came together last week when the Partnering In Private Land Conservation (PPLC) Project End of Year event was held in Sydney. With over 20 in-person and online participants, Landcare and BCT regional managers and coordinators shared their successes and learnings from the past year. “It [...]

Celebrating Landcare - Trees in the House 2022

Celebrating Landcare – Trees in the House 2022

After a two year break due to COVID, over 90 Members of Parliament, Government Ministers, agency representatives and Landcarers from across the State came together to celebrate Landcare at the ‘Trees in the House’ event in Sydney last night. The annual flagship event, hosted by Landcare NSW and the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Landcare (PFL), [...]

The details regarding the Annual General Meeting
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022
Time: 8:30am
Location: Stamford Plaza, Sydney Airport Hotel, Mascot
An online link is also available for online attendees via Zoom

NOTICE OF 2022 LANDCARE NSW ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

The details regarding the Annual General Meeting
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022
Time: 8:30am
Location: Stamford Plaza, Sydney Airport Hotel, Mascot
An online link is also available for online attendees via Zoom

MEDIA RELEASE - CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: NAMBUCCA VALLEY COMMUNITY RALLIES AROUND RAINFOREST RESTORATION

MEDIA RELEASE – CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: NAMBUCCA VALLEY COMMUNITY RALLIES AROUND RAINFOREST RESTORATION

Nambucca Valley’s subtropical rainforests and threatened species including Koalas, Tiger Quolls and the Grey-headed Flying Fox are on the road to recovery thanks the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants funded Bushfire Recovery in the Nambucca Valley project. Headlined by Nambucca Valley Landcare, the project focussed on habitat revegetation, strategic erosion control and riparian fencing across [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - GROWING RECOVERY: MID-WEST IN BLOOM FOLLOWING DISASTER RECOVERY EFFORTS

MEDIA RELEASE – GROWING RECOVERY: MID-WEST IN BLOOM FOLLOWING DISASTER RECOVERY EFFORTS

Critical habitat in New South Wales’ mid-west is on the road to recovery thanks to the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants program. Launched by Watershed Landcare to address large scale fire damage resulting in habitat loss, species decline and erosion, the Growing Recovery in the Mid-Western Region project has seen 10,000 seeds for native trees, [...]

MEDIA RELEASE: TAILOR MADE FIRE RECOVERY PLANS KICK-START LOVE OF LANDCARE IN UPPER MURRAY

MEDIA RELEASE: TAILOR MADE FIRE RECOVERY PLANS KICK-START LOVE OF LANDCARE IN UPPER MURRAY

Fire recovery for native flora and fauna in the Upper Murray has transformed into a long-term community passion project thanks to Holbrook Landcare’s Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants funded Fire Recovery in the Upper Murray project. When the Dunn’s Road and Green Valley fire decimated critical habitat and exacerbated threats faced by key threatened species, [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - SEEDBANK SUCCESS: LOCAL SEEDBANK PREPPED AND READY FOR FUTURE DISASTER RECOVERY

MEDIA RELEASE – SEEDBANK SUCCESS: LOCAL SEEDBANK PREPPED AND READY FOR FUTURE DISASTER RECOVERY

The Far South Coast Landcare Community Seedbank have expanded their output and are ready to support critical disaster recovery projects thanks to the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants Program. Spearheaded by Far South Coast Landcare Association (FSCLA), the Ramping up the Seedbank project successfully boosted the seedbank’s capacity through an intensified period of seed collection, [...]

Meet the newest Directors to join the Board of Landcare NSW

Meet the newest Directors to join the Board of Landcare NSW

Following an extensive and thorough recruitment process driven by the Landcare NSW Nominations Committee, Landcare NSW would like to introduce the four Board Directors who will be confirmed by the members present at the Landcare NSW Annual General Meeting to be held on 19th October, 2022. The Landcare NSW Board is composed of six Ordinary [...]

Landcare reaches 100,000 tree milestone to help green Western Sydney

Landcare reaches 100,000 tree milestone to help green Western Sydney

On Saturday 3rd September, the 100 thousandth tree was planted at Discovery Park, Liverpool as part of the NSW Government funded project ‘Creating Canopies in Greater Sydney’, marking the 81st site that has benefited from the project. The NSW Government partnered with Landcare NSW to deliver the Creating Canopies in Greater Sydney project planting 100,000 [...]

Partnering In Private Land Conservation: Reinvigorating PLC on the Mid Coast

Partnering In Private Land Conservation: Reinvigorating PLC on the Mid Coast

Private Land Conservation remains a hot topic across the state but with the support of the Partnering in Private Land Conservation (PLC) Project, the team at Mid Coast to Tops Landcare Connection are offering support and guidance to conservation holders in partnership with the Biodiversity Conservation Trust. “After decades of bouncing around different agencies, our [...]

Four Board Directors for Landcare NSW

Four Board Directors for Landcare NSW

Landcare NSW has reached another major milestone in its new governance arrangements with the completion of the first open recruitment of Directors to its Board. Four Board Directors will be announced in the coming month, following an extensive and thorough recruitment process driven by the Landcare NSW Nominations Committee. The Committee, whose role is to [...]

LANDCARE NSW VISITS THE MURRAY REGION

LANDCARE NSW VISITS THE MURRAY REGION

On the 19 and 20th July, members of the Landcare NSW team were fortunate to attend two great events held by Murray Landcare Collective. Day 1 was the mini muster at Corowa, which was a facilitated session covering several topics including the NSW Landcare Program 2023-2027 funding bid. This featured a workshop session to discuss [...]

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST HAVE BEEN EXTENDED AND WILL CLOSE FRIDAY 15 AUGUST, 2022.Landcare NSW is seeking applications from people living in the Western region who are interested in joining the Board of Landcare NSW, the peak body for Landcare in the state.

LANDCARE NSW SEEKS WESTERN LEADER FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST HAVE BEEN EXTENDED AND WILL CLOSE FRIDAY 15 AUGUST, 2022.

Landcare NSW is seeking applications from people living in the Western region who are interested in joining the Board of Landcare NSW, the peak body for Landcare in the state.

Landcare NSW Business Partner Leader Terry Harkness talks of his visit to White Cliffs for the Far West Rangeland Rehydration Alliance (FWRAA) field day hosted by Western Landcare NSW held on 6th- 7th July, 2022.

Far West Rangeland Rehydration Alliance – Field Day

Landcare NSW Business Partner Leader Terry Harkness talks of his visit to White Cliffs for the Far West Rangeland Rehydration Alliance (FWRAA) field day hosted by Western Landcare NSW held on 6th- 7th July, 2022.

Media Release: Landcare reaches 80,000th tree as part of National Tree Day

Media Release: Landcare reaches 80,000th tree as part of National Tree Day

Tuesday, 2 August 2022 National Tree Day celebrated by planting of 80,000th tree in Parramatta A major milestone for community Landcare was met during National Tree Day at the weekend with the planting of the 80,000th tree as part of the Creating Canopies in Greater Sydney project. Facilitated through a partnership between NSW Government, [...]

Building Connections and Understanding of Biodiversity in the Central Tablelands

Building Connections and Understanding of Biodiversity in the Central Tablelands

Building connections in biodiversity and educating communities in the importance of biodiversity has been a driving force behind the successful Building Connections in Biodiversity Forum established by Central Tablelands Project Coordinator for the Partnering In Private Land Conservation Project, Corey Tatz. Focusing on bringing landholders together and sharing their knowledge and stories surrounding conservation actions, [...]

Partnering In Private Land Conservation Project kicking goals across NSW

Partnering In Private Land Conservation Project kicking goals across NSW

Biodiversity, conservation and Landcare are going hand-in-hand across the state as the Partnering in Private Land Conservation Project’s activities and events begin to roll out across NSW. Facilitated by a partnership between the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust and Landcare NSW, the funding is shared throughout all regions and enables regional and local landcare groups to [...]

2022 NSW STATE BUDGET. WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE STATE ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITIES

2022 NSW STATE BUDGET. WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE STATE ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITIES

The NSW State Budget has turned its environmental focus on biodiversity this year, with more than $2 billion invested in programs focusing on protection, conservation and natural capital investment. Handed down on Tuesday 21st June, the Department of Environment and Heritage announced ‘biodiversity being a….clear focus in the 2022-23 NSW Budget, with major investments in [...]

Creating Connected Resilient Communities - Eat Dirt

Creating Connected Resilient Communities – Eat Dirt

A project that aims to connect students to Country, nature and each other is well and truly underway at Bellingen High with a class of year 8 students participating in a range of activities to enhance their creativity and critical thinking. The program which has been made possible with a grant from NSW Government’s Bushfire [...]

Future change makers found in Western Landcare with schools programme

Future change makers found in Western Landcare with schools programme

On the Western Rangelands the next generation have been busy engaging with the change maker that is Landcare and communities and environments are flourishing due to it. Focusing on growing knowledge about environmental sustainability, healthy environments, the human impact on the environment and more, the community is helping guide the next generation to a diversity [...]

Media Release: Using water sampling to name the fish in our rivers!

Media Release: Using water sampling to name the fish in our rivers!

Over the past 12 months, OzFish Unlimited, Australia’s fishing conservation charity, has taken fisher science to a new level using environment DNA (eDNA) technology to help determine where even the rarest of fish species can be found in the waterways. With the support of the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery grant and the international charity, Global Giving, [...]