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Alice Springs Landcare Group - Boxing-Glove Cactus control
Alice Springs Landcare has taken the fight to a prickly invader in the Northern Territory. Boxing-Glove Cactus (Cylindropuntia fulgida), already declared a noxious weed in parts of New South Wales, has begun settling into the Spencer Valley after escaping from domestic ...

Barkly Landcare and Conservation Association
Barkly Landcare Conservation Association, together with pastoralists and other environmental partners, has developed a comprehensive plan to control the spread of Parkinsonia thorough the Georgina Catchment. This plan will ensure the continued treatment of the weed and contribute significantly to ...

Darwin City Council - Australian Government Coastcare Award
Darwin City Council is in the running for a National Landcare Award for their work in restoring the dunes of Mindil Beach as part of the Greening Mindil Project. The work of Darwin City Council in partnership with the Larrakia ...

Darwin City Council - Local Government Landcare Partnerships Award
Working closely with, Larrakia Nation Rangers,community groups and Frogwatch NT, the Zero Toads project was developed by Darwin City Council to address cane toad control strategies to protect biodiversity by setting up trap lines and humanely eradicating the species. Project Detail While ...

Darwin High School - Westpac Education Award
In collaboration with Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA), Darwin High School Year 10 and Secondary Intensive English Unit students along with 25 teachers and school support staff, completed a week-long “Students for Conservation” community involvement initiative. Students worked at various locations ...

Garden for Wildlife
Garden for Wildlife (GfW) is a voluntary conservation program successfully launched in Alice Springs in March 2007. The scheme is an extension of the Land for Wildlife (LfW) program, targeting town blocks within the Alice Springs township. The Garden for ...

Glenn McFarlane - Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award
Through his role with the CVA and his passion for turtle conservation, Glenn McFarlane has lead the creation and delivery of new marine debris survey sites around Darwin Harbour, secured a Federal Government grant to monitor nesting turtles and marine ...

Joye Maddison - Landcare Facilitator / Coordinator Award
Joye Maddison has been involved in landcare in the Top End of the Northern Territory for over three decades. Hailing from a small timber-milling town in WA, Joye began her career in NRM in 1983 at Kakadu National Park as ...

Northern Territory Horticultural Association
The rapid expansion of ‘new farmers’ (first generation or inexperienced horticulturalists) in the Northern Territory has created a need for best practice sustainable agricultural information relevant to the Territory. Producers recognise that a proactive approach to NRM through targeted sustainable ...

P & A Howie & Sons - Primary Producer Award
Due to the strong seasonal nature of rainfall in the Northern Territory, soil erosion and seasonal feed gaps are major constraints and challenges to the sustainability of farming enterprises. Over the past seven years, the Howie’s have transformed ‘Maneroo Station’ ...

Tjuwanpa Rangers
The Tjuwanpa Ranger program operates 130 km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia on the traditional lands of the Western Aranda people. The community ranger group consists of 16 Indigenous men from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and affiliated outstations who are ...