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....
National Landcare Program small grants round 4 now open until 9 Oct
Funding is available to increase adoption of best practice sustainable agriculture and increase the capacity of land managers to adopt best practice sustainable agriculture. The guidelines and information are available at...
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
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
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...
Volunteer Week 2020
National Volunteer Week (NVW) is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers. From 18 – 24 May 2020, say thanks to 35,000 QWaLC members and Volunteers, 714,138 Queenslanders who volunteer, and the 6 million volunteers...
Landcare Wellbeing survey
QWaLC would like to invite and encourage member groups, landholders, farmers and volunteers in Queensland to contribute their experience working with and/or being part of of the land and water carers community. To start the survey you can visit the link...
Boost for bushfire recovery
Recent announcements To access support and to find further details, visit the National Bushfire Recovery Agency website at www.bushfirerecovery.gov.au The new support also includes: Forestry Transport Assistance ($15 million): To assist the forestry industry with the...
beescount.org
The world bee count looks like an great activity to engage in. Anyone, anywhere can upload a picture of bees and other pollinators to the Global Pollinator Map. Only 6 days before you can download the app. https://beescount.org
National Landcare Conference new date
March 10 to 12 2021 in Sydney As you are aware, the National Landcare Conference was scheduled for this year, November 11 to 13. Due to the impacts of COVID-19, the National Landcare Conference Steering Committee have announced that the conference will now take place...