Global Landcare book launch
Global Landcare is launching the book Building Global Sustainability Through Local Self Reliance: Lessons From Landcare August 22, 2022 5.30pm to 7.00pm in Sydney, Sappho Books, Cafe and Bar, 51 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. This book has been published and will be...
National Landcare Conference about to get underway
POWER OF LANDCARE | SHAPING OUR FUTURE The 2022 National Landcare Conference will include speakers on urban landcare, Landcare Farming, wellbeing and mental health, cultural land management, innovation and technology, soil health, young farmers, building community...
Reef Assist 2.0 program
Reef Assist 2.0 is focused on the creation of skill development and job opportunities, including for unemployed and under-employed people, youth, women and First Nations people. The aim of Reef Assist 2.0 is to support the development of training and partnering...
National Landcare Conference early bird closing soon
The National Landcare Conference will take place from Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 August, at the International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney. Learn more here: https://nationallandcareconference.org.au/ With over 100 speakers, don’t miss this opportunity to...
NAIDOC Week July 3 – 10
What is your group doing this NAIDOC Week?? National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians...
Wildlife Emergency Response Units
Wildcare Australia Inc volunteers responded to the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast bushfires in September 2019 which highlighted the need to be fully prepared to respond to future bushfires and other natural disaster events. During the 2019 bushfires, Wildcare...
Wildlife Fodder Plantation
Wildcare Australia Inc The 2019 bushfires, other natural events such as flooding and prolonged drought, and increased development in South-east Queensland has significantly reduced accessible natural areas for wildlife volunteers to source high quality native food to...
Peregian Beach Fire Zone Ecological Repair Project – Priority Actions
Noosa & District Landcare Group Intense canopy fires and the complete destruction of canopy trees in 2019 had allowed the proliferation of significant vine, grass and shrub weeds to occur at several locations in the Peregian Beach and Weyba Downs vicinity. The...
Protecting Springbrook National Park
Springbrook WeedBusters Regrowth from the 2019 bushfires shows how vulnerable the Springbrook National Park is to weed incursion. Springbrook WeedBusters is a relatively new group focussed on weeding activities and landowner education. With almost $20,000 from the...
Understories: Restoring ecological communities in the Tallebudgera Valley
Tallebudgera Valley Nature-Culture Alliance In 2019 the Tallebudgera Valley was inundated with smoke and several (smaller) fires broke out raising concerns for local residents. ‘Understories’ is taking a bottom-up community approach using the arts to foster natural...
Cooroibah & North Shore Fire Zone Ecological Repair Project
Noosa & District Landcare Group Inc With $50,000 from the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Program, Noosa & District Landcare Group have worked to enhance Cooroibah and Noosa Northshore Fire Zones through weed treatments and revegetation. This project was...
Artificial Hollows for Greater Gliders in Nerang National Park
Friends of Nerang National Park Friends of Nerang National Park have used $32,000 from the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Program to mitigate loss of hollows for the Greater Gliders in Nerang National Park. Greater gliders (Petauroides volans) are one of the Gold...
Nature Refuges of Yamahra Creek’s Feral Animal and Habitat Augmentation Project
Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) Bulimbah and Bartopia Nature Refuges, in the headwaters of the Yamahra Creek, is over 200 hectares of privately owned land which borders the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area Mt Barney National...
Surveys and Public Education for the Spotted-tailed Quoll in South East Queensland
Quoll Society of Australia The spotted-tailed quoll, our largest marsupial carnivore, is in serious trouble from destruction of its habitat, predation by cats and foxes, and the severe bushfires of 2019/20, quolls are on the verge of disappearing from Queensland...
Gold Coast Hinterland Rainforest Fire Protection Trails
Austinville Landcare The Gold Coast and Hinterland, has historically been considered relatively safe from severe bushfires. In 2019, for the first time in recorded history, fire penetrated deep into rainforest areas of Lamington National Park. With climate change it...