The State of the Environment
Have a look at the state of the environment. Every five years the Australian Government conducts a comprehensive review of the state of the Australian environment. National SoE reports provide information about environmental and heritage conditions, trends and...
Agricultural Extension and Education in the Reef Region Review
Its your chance to get involved and have a say. The Qld Government has commissioned a consultant, Coutts J&R Pty Ltd, to undertake an independent review and provide recommendations that can be undertaken to ensure innovative agricultural extension and education...
Lightweight Plastic Shopping Bag Submission
Don't forget to put in a submission to the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection implementing a lightweight shopping bag ban discussion paper due by the 27th February 2017. Have a read of the discussion paper and ensure that your voice is heard....
Citizen Science in Action Find a Frog in February
From Maleny in the south to Hervey Bay and Burrum Heads in the north, interested then go to the mrccc.org.au web page and get involved.
Green Army gone
Well the Green Army is no more. On the 19th December the Commonwealth Government decided to achieve savings of $224.7 million over four years from 2016‑17 by terminating the Green Army program. Existing contracts under the program will continue to be funded and $21.4...
Greens Secure Funds for Landcare
As part of a deal to settle the backpacker tax dispute, the Australia Greens have secured an additional $100m for Landcare over the next four years, We will provide you with more detail on what this means for our member groups, the National Landcare Network and the...
Wet Tropics Pilot Report Card
QWaLC is pleased to be part of an important new initiative for assessing and reporting on the health of waterways in the Wet Tropics that has been released today. The Wet Tropics Pilot Report Card is the first time that organisations from across the Wet Tropics have...
A plastic use revolution is on the way
Are you following the responses from our state Labour and the LNP representatives to this initiative of Boomerang Alliance? http://www.boomerangalliance.org.au Have your say www.getinvolved.qld.gov.au The less plastic bags and bottles volunteers have to spend their...
Qld Govt Community Sustainability Action grants now open
Round 1 - Conservation of the Community Sustainability Action grants is now open for applications. This round of funding will provide grants of up to $25,000 (excluding GST) to eligible community-based groups with a focus on enabling ‘sustainable communities’....
QWaLC Annual General Meeting 2nd December 2016
The Queensland Water and Land Carers Inc. Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 2nd December in Brisbane at 11am. Mantra on Queen 570 Queen Street, Brisbane City Qld 4000 Please respond to info@qwalc.org.au if you will be attending. This will assist us with...
It’s time for a ReefBlitz
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s month-long ReefBlitz will engage people power to capture the biggest ever snapshot of Great Barrier Reef health and life powered by citizen science from 1 to 31 October. More than 20 activities and events – either free or low cost –...
Queensland National Landcare Award Winners
Congratulations to all the 69 outstanding Landcare champions across nine categories that made up this year’s National Landcare Awards finalists. It was great to watch three Queensland Winners receive their awards Coastcare Award Coolum and District Coastcare Since...
Have Your Say on the National Landcare Programme
Take advantage of the opportunity to provide feedback in an online survey. The Australian Government invites you to provide feedback on the National Landcare Programme through an online survey. The survey should take no longer than 20 minutes to complete and your...
Make sure you vote in the Peoples Choice
The People’s Choice Award nominations are live. The 2016 National Landcare People’s Choice Award will be presented to the finalist who receives the most votes from the general public in the run-up to the 2016 National Landcare Awards, which take place in Melbourne on...
Great Barrier Reef Water Science Taskforce report
Have a look at the report and see what is going to be done. Government agrees to all reef taskforce recommendations