Welcome to Australia’s new Chief Scientist

The Australian Academy of Science congratulates Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM FAA FTSE on her appointment as Chief Scientist of Australia. Academy President, Professor John Shine, warmly welcomed the appointment. “As an accomplished physicist, the first dedicated Chief...

Grants for Bushfire Recovery now open

Bushfire Recovery for Wildlife and Habitat Community Grants Program. Guidelines for this program, including eligibility requirements, are now available athttps://www.business.gov.au/brwhc. The $10 million program will support communities to undertake on-ground...

#CitSciOzOnline October 2020

ACSA online- every Wednesday in October! It is shaping up to be a great event! You can register for the event here, and the entire program operates on a ‘pay what you can afford’ basis (from $0 - $20 or free for Australian Citizen Science Association members).

QWaLC 2020 AGM

QWaLC is pleased to announce that it's AGM will be held on the 5th November via ZOOM and at the Toowoomba Library (limited numbers) 10am to 11am Agenda, proxy form and RSVP are available here.

Future Drought Fund Drought Resilience Program Grants

Time to get your writing groove on. The Australian Government is inviting applications under the Future Drought Fund: Natural Resource Management Drought Resilience Program - Grants. The Program is focused on support for experimentation in NRM practices, systems and...

Supporting Australia’s Volunteers and Building Resilient Communities

2020 Supplementary Volunteer Grants round now open volunteeringaustralia.org/svg2020 Funding of between $1000 - $5000 is available under the 2020 Supplementary Volunteer Grants Program to help community organisations to support the efforts of Australia's volunteers....

Support growing for an environmental job stimulus package

Support growing for an environmental job stimulus package

Strong support for conservation and landcare job creation initiatives as Australians increasingly struggle to find work: new polling results   More than four in five Australians (83%) think the Morrison Government should fund practical environmental...

2020 Bob Hawke Landcare Award closes 12 Oct

2020 Bob Hawke Landcare Award closes 12 Oct

The Bob Hawke Landcare Award is a prestigious, national award that publicly recognises an individual involved in championing Landcare and who inspires others to take action on their own property or through a Landcare group. Nominations now close on Monday 12th October...

A National conservation and land management employment program

The idea is to take people who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, especially in tourism impacted regions, and redeploy them into temporary roles undertaking practical work such as restoring coastal habitats, tackling weeds and pests, planting trees, building...

Landcare Week August 3-9 2020

Landcare Week August 3-9 2020

Get connected with the environment in your local community. Landcare Week celebrates and acknowledges the many thousands of volunteers, Landcare networks and groups, Coastcare, Bushcare and ‘Friends of’ groups, Traditional land managers, Junior Landcare schools and...

Regenerating your group activities

Great to see that in Qld we are are able to progressively undertake activities again. We still need to follow the health directives of the Qld Govt Health officer. Some new COVID-19 Resources are now available on the Volunteering Australia website as well as on the...

National Landcare Conference now in August 2021

Landcare Australia are proud to host the 2021 National Landcare Conference taking place 4th - 6th August 2021 at ICC Sydney in Darling Harbour. QWaLC is pleased to be part of the conference....

Qld DES Threatened Species Recovery and Resilience grants round 4

Applications are now open for Round 4—Threatened Species Recovery and Resilience of the Queensland Government’s Community Sustainability Action grants program. Grants up to $100,000 (ex GST) are available for on-ground projects which benefit threatened flora and fauna...