Case Studies
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Healthy catchments – Healthy waterways
Yule Brook is a natural watercourse at its headwaters which turns into a network of deeply incised drains in its lower reaches that combine to form the Yule Brook Main Drain. The drain discharges into the Canning River at the ... 
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Bushcare's Major Day Out - Willoughby
The aim of “Bushcare's Major Day Out” was to engage the local community in the restoration of remnant bushland, recruit new members to Bushcare and provide an opportunity for environmental volunteers across Willoughby and North Sydney to socialise and get ...
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Priority Site Repair and Knowledge Improvement in the Clarence Plains Catchment
The Priority Site Repair and Knowledge Improvement project increased the awareness and participation of the Clarence Plains community in caring for public land and encouraged people to adopt landcare approaches on their own properties. Project summary The Priority Site Repair and Knowledge ...
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Cedar Creek Corridor Enhancement Project
The Cedar Creek Corridor Enhancement Project assisted in developing wildlife corridors in the Tambourine Mountain region through a range of activities including the regeneration of the native rainforest area, weed management, native tree planting and the development of understory plants. Project ...
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Regeneration of Hunter's Falls
The Regeneration of Hunter's Falls project aimed to improve the health of the 6th Creek by reducing erosion by revegetating the creek line. Project summary The Regeneration of Hunter's Falls project aimed to improve the health of the 6th Creek by reducing ...
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Building relationships between land managers and Traditional Owners
Through the “Building relationships between land managers and Traditional Owners” project, the Merri Creek Management Committee (MCMC) further developed their relationship with the local Indigenous community, the Wurundjeri People, through a range of community projects and activities. Project Summary Through the “Building ...
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Restore, Re-new, Reclaim
The “Restore, Re-new, Reclaim” project aimed to greatly increase native biodiversity over the 18 Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group (AGLG) sites. Summary The “Restore, Re-new, Reclaim” project aimed to greatly increase native biodiversity over the 18 Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group (AGLG) sites. Project ...
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Indigenous Ranger Training & Water quality in Darwin Harbour
The Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation aims to build on existing relationships with land management groups see increased utilisation of Larrakia knowledge (including recording and dissemination) in culturally appropriate resource management. As custodians of country for thousands of years the Larrakia ...
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Superb Parrot Project
Established in 1992, the Superb Parrot Group consists of a group of 20+ landowners in the Picola, Barmah, Nathalia region who have systematically planted, and more recently direct seeded, more than 400 ha of their own land. A number of ...
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Warril Creek extension of riparian vegetation
Kuranda Envirocare has been working for over ten years to conserve and repair biodiversity and to educate the Kuranda community to value and protect biodiversity. The group has contributed a large number of volunteer hours over the years; many thousands ...
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Enhancing habitat in the Finniss Catchment
Goolwa to Wellington Local Action Planning Association works with the local community to protect and restore biodiversity and sustainably manage natural resources, so as to create an environment where human activity and natural ecosystems can sustainably co-exist. The body works ...
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Catchment 4 Coasts - Community Engagement and On Ground Works
The Bellarine Catchment Network aims to have a community driven project which recognises that all sections of the community need to play an active role in caring for the environment. This is best achieved on a catchment wide basis. The ...
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Restoring critical riparian areas in Southern Tasmania
Many water ways in Southern Tasmania are degraded by factors such as pollution, littering, clearance of native vegetation, invasion of environmental weeds and lack of appreciation and understanding by local communities. The purpose of this project was to support and ...
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Little River Landcare Group
Little River Landcare Group started out in 1997 when a group of progressive and proactive land managers in the region realised the potential of amalgamating 14 small, localised Landcare groups to work together. The group members realised that although natural ...
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Regent Honeyeater Project
This well established revegetation project focuses on the Regent Honeyeater, an endangered bird species that has declined seriously over recent decades. Only about 1000 - 1500 of these striking birds remain in the wild and there are just 3 key ...
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“Grow West” Biolinks: Connecting people with the environment
Grow West is an ambitious program of landscape restoration on both public and private land. Launched in 2003, its vision is to rejuvenate 10,000 hectares of land in the Upper Werribee Catchment, west of Melbourne, by transforming the Landscape. Sustainable ...
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Hindmarsh Revegetation and Soil Protection
The project aims to stabilise two hectares of erosion and revegetate ten hectares. The two sites are located adjacent the Dimboola/Rainbow road which is the main road from Horsham and leads to Wyperfeld National Park, Lake Hindmarsh and Lake ...
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Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare Group and the Point Danger Committee of Management
The work of the Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare Group and the Point Danger Committee of Management in preventing fox predation through the use of Mareema guardian dogs has contributed to the sustainable management and increasing number and spread of penguin colonies. Project ...
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North East Catchment Management Authority
The key focus of the North East CMA Landcare support has been to build the skills and capacity of Landcare groups, their executives, project managers and members, to enable them to deliver their priorities. The strength of Landcare groups, combined ...
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Meredith Dairy
Meredith Dairy is a vertically integrated farming enterprise, producing sheep and goat milk which is processed on farm into cheese and yoghurt. The farm has been transformed from a 500 hectare traditional wool farm in 1990 to a 1450 hectare ...
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Kayla Groombridge - Young Landcare Leader Award
The lower section of the Tarra River between Tarraville and Robertsons Beach in Victoria has provided residents and Landholders alike with a suite of difficult problems including the infestations of invasive plants, illegal camping and boat launching and deteriorating river ...
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Heather Drendel
The Southern Mallee is reliant on broad-acre agriculture and Heather Drendel's passion is to build healthy and functioning rural communities. Heather has been heavily involved with Landcare for over seven years. Her personal involvement and commitment has earned her the ...
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Col Beasley - Innovation in Sustainable Farm Practices
Col Beasley is a visionary and leader in his field. Starting out 40 years ago as a dry land farmer on marginal country near Mildura, Col converted part of his farming enterprise to irrigation as well as trialling various horticulture ...
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Birchip Landcare Group
The Birchip Landcare Group's Urban Stormwater Treatment Project has reinvigorated local sporting and school facilities and provided safe refuge to a variety of birds and wildlife in the area. Project Detail Birchip Landcare Group (BLG) has been nominated for a National Landcare ...
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Bass Coast Shire Council
The Bass Coast Shire has some of the most diverse, well known and well visited coastline in Victoria and is also part of the internationally recognized Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Reserve. The Bass Coast Shire Council consists of ...
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Barapa Barapa Indigenous Crew
Due to the Barapa Barapa's diminishing connection to country around the Kerang Lakes and Gunbower Forest area, in 2009, the North Central Catchment Management Authority's (CMA) sought expressions of interest from the Barapa Barapa community to partake in the 2008-09 ...
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Badger Creek Primary School
After replanting the Badger Creek Road wildlife corridor following a destructive mini tornado in 2002, the Badger Creek Primary school community became a member of the Mt Toolebewong Landcare Group and was immediately inspired to form a voluntary junior landcare ...
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Arie Bos - Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award
Arie Bos is a local Landcare champion and pioneer. As group president of the Agnes River Landcare group, Arie has actively shaped and guided policy, and the direction and success of the local Landcare network for more than ten years. ...
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Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is making an exemplary effort to achieve and maintain community engagement in Natural Resource Management, especially through Landcare and its members. Southern Rivers CMA has adopted strategies to achieve a high level of engagement ...
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Southern New England Landcare
From humble beginnings, Southern New England Landcare has grown to be a local champion of natural resource management and worked extensively with landholders to protect the long-term future of the region's natural health. Project Detail Southern New England Landcare (SNEL) has been ...
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Orara Valley Learning Community
Commencing in 2002 the Orara Valley Learning Project, involving seven small schools in the Orara Valley Learning Community, has worked to solve important local environmental problems. The schools have worked in partnership with Landcare and Rivercare groups to remove and ...
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Murray Darling Association Inc
Due to the lack of specific primary school resources about the Murray River's health, the Murray Darling Association is providing curriculum materials to support Murray-Darling Basin schools to understand and improve catchment health. Significantly, the Association's initiatives have used the ...
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Kate McLaren - Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award
Kate McLaren is the driving force behind Landcare and conservation forums, projects and field days in the Tamworth region, getting directly involved and sharing her knowledge and experience with the community. She has been instrumental in the formulation of educational ...
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Friends of Bungan Incorporated
The work of Friends of Bungan, in collaboration with Warringah Council, in restoring the natural heritage area has contributed to the improvement and sustainability of the untamed coast on Sydney's northern beaches. Project Detail Friends of Bungan have been nominated for a ...
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Forbes Urban Landcare Group
Formed in 1994 to address a major high watertable and salinity problem, Forbes Urban Landcare Group (FULG) is a well known and highly respected community group working in the township and surrounds of Forbes NSW on the Lachlan River to ...
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Erin Rowe - Young Landcare Leader Award
Erin Rowe is making a big difference to both the environment and young people's lives in her role as a Green Corps Team Leader. Through community projects and activities, Erin continues to promote awareness of the importance of caring for ...
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Eric Bell
As an elder of the Ngunnawal nation and highly respected leader of the Indigenous community of Yass, Eric Bell is making a difference to his community and the environment through his active involvement and leadership in a wide variety of ...
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Clover Hill Dairies
Clover Hill Dairies (CHD), run by seventh generation dairy farmers Michael, Lynne and Nicholas Strong, has developed a highly efficient, sustainable and profitable farming enterprise that supports both agricultural production and biodiversity enhancement, working in harmony together. In the past ...
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Chris Cumming - Landcare Facilitator / Coordinator Award
Chris Cumming was appointed CEO of Holbrook Landcare in 2008 during a difficult time for the group. Since taking on the role of CEO, Chris has transformed the group from being close to folding back to its former identity as ...
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Broken Bay Oysters
BBO was formed in 2006 with a commitment to achieving environmental sustainability and with a new sense of stewardship of the river following the demolishment of the Hawkesbury River's wild oyster population by the QX parasite in 2004 and exit ...
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Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee
WICC works with farmers, landholders and community groups to create long term solutions to reduce the effects of excess nutrients in the Wilson Inlet. Through the development and implementation of the Wilson Inlet Nutrient Reduction Action Plan and Upper Hay ...
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Wheatbelt NRM
Wheatbelt NRM Inc., (formerly Avon Catchment Council) supports the Avon River Basin community at the forefront of sustainable agricultural land management in Australia. The group has developed powerful networks comprising individuals, community groups, industry, government and the education sector. Through ...
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Stirling Natural Environment Coastcare
The work of SNEC both in protecting the Stirling coastal zone and raising awareness of the need to conserve environmentally sensitive areas contributes significantly to the sustainable use and management of Western Australia's coastal environment. Project Detail Stirling Natural Environment Coastcare (SNEC) ...
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Linda Vernon - Young Landcare Leader Award
Throughout the WA Wheatbelt, Linda Vernon has worked with a wide range of community and government groups, as well as landholders, to develop a range of natural resource management programs to provide long term, environmentally sustainable solutions. Project Detail Twenty eight year ...
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South Coast NRM
Developed to strengthen participation and engagement of Aboriginal people, Restoring Connections is a community driven project working with Noongar communities across the South Coast region of Western Australia to identify, protect and restore cultural places at risk of degradation. Project Detail South ...
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Rob and Jenny Warburton
With a vision of ‘everlasting agriculture', Rob and Jenny Warburton are leading advocates for Landcare, recognised for their work and innovation within sustainable agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) in the Great Southern Region on and off the farm over ...
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Mingenew-Irwin Group - Innovation in Sustainable Farm Practices
Formed in the mid 1990's by local LCDC's, Mingenew-Irwin Group (MIG) is a not-for-profit, farmer owned and driven organisation committed to promoting and developing economic and environmentally sustainable agriculture through research, planning and demonstrating best practice. Project Detail Mingenew-Irwin Group has been ...
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Linda Vernon - Landcare Facilitator / Coordinator Award
Linda Vernon is a dedicated and well regarded Landcare professional in the Central Wheatbelt NRM district, working tirelessly within the community to identify and develop NRM requirements. Throughout her career, Linda has assisted hundreds of landholders in improving the quality ...
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Geographe Catchment Council
The Geographe Catchment Council (GeoCatch) project, Peppies for Possums began in response to significant community concerns raised with GeoCatch about the future of the Western Ringtail Possum (Ringtail) in the Busselton area. The Busselton Dunsborough area has the largest remaining ...
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Baldivis Primary School
Since early beginnings of revegetation plantings to restore an area of bushland provided by the City of Rockingham in 2001; the Baldivis Children's Forest has developed into a vibrant Environmental Study Centre, providing an extensive range of programs and learning ...
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Grange Primary School
The year five students from Grange Primary School identified issues they were concerned about at their local beach and developed story ideas to communicate their concerns through film. The students engaged with members of the community to collect information and ...
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Millie Nicholls - Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award
As a local farmer and founding member of volunteer based community group, the Mid North Grasslands Working Group (MNGWG), Millie Nicholls has championed the role of grasslands in sustainable agriculture and has been a leader of improved Grassland management for ...
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Murray Mallee Local Action Planning Association
The Murray Mallee Local Action Planning Association (MM LAP) was established in1998 and is a community organisation with around 100 members from the Murray Mallee, run by a committee drawn from its members. The group formed to develop an overarching ...
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Sue and Sean Delaney - Primary Producer Award
After purchasing a 26 acre property at Norton Summit, 20 minutes from Adelaide's CBD, in 1997, Sue and Sean Delaney established Sinclair's Gully, a small family run vineyard and eco-cellar door. Sustainable practices are the foundation of the business with ...
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Gerry Butler - Landcare Facilitator / Coordinator Award
Gerry Butler has made a substantial contribution to Landcare over the past 20 years, holding volunteer positions in numerous industry and community organisations prior to joining the Upper Torrens Land Management Project (UTLMP) in 1998 as Project Officer. Throughout his career ...
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Frank Young - Indigenous Award
Due to his ability to effectively engage with the broader community, governance and administrative systems, Frank Young has been a great supporter and advocate for the integration of traditional knowledge with contemporary management to produce a number of highly successful ...
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EcoAction
The work of EcoAction Group in partnership with a number of local groups to redevelop the Pennington Bay area has contributed to the long-term sustainability of the area. EcoAction has helped to raise awareness of coastal protection issues and contributed ...
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Eyre Bio-Regional Permaculture Group (EBRPG)
The Eyre Bio-Regional Permaculture Group (EBRPG) members are tireless volunteers who promote urban and peri-urban natural resource management through permaculture initiatives. Group members have been innovative in the way they reach out to the wider community, using a variety of ...
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BST Oyster Supplies
BST Oyster Supplies has developed an innovative oyster farming system which is recognised world-wide as an example of best practice oyster farming and has added to the positive growth of Cowell as well as the development of the aquaculture industry. Project ...
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Blinman Parachilna Pest Plant Control Group
Working with volunteer groups within the local community and outside the region, the Blinman Parachilna Pest Plant Control Group has set the benchmark for community managed natural resource management projects through their work managing the invasive weed species Oleanders and ...
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Traditional Knowledge Recording Project
The ongoing loss of traditional knowledge is a constant threat to Indigenous culture. The Traditional Knowledge Recording Project has recognised and strengthened understanding of traditional knowledge and management practices, and its linkage to mainstream NRM from Elders in regional and ...
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Tangaroa Blue Ocean Care Society
The work of Tangaroa Blue Ocean Care Society in the development and implementation of the Far North Queensland Marine Debris Project has contributed to the education and involvement of the broader community in the reduction of marine debris and preservation ...
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Roger Landsberg - Primary Producer Award
“Trafalgar” has been in the Landsberg family since 1913 with Roger and his wife Jenny taking over the management of the property in 1987. Since this time, Roger has been an early adopter of many broad-scale management changes integrated across ...
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Robyn Mapp - Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award
Biloela's Robyn Mapp has been a tireless worker and advocate for Landcare in the Callide Valley since 1990 and is heavily involved with the Callide Valley Landcare Association as a volunteer coordinator and spokesperson for the group. Project Detail Biloela's Robyn Mapp ...
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John David Nicholas - Landcare Facilitator / Coordinator Award
Over the past four years, John David Nicholas has worked tirelessly to improve and enhance landholder awareness and adoption of improved management practices in his role with the Dalrymple Landcare Committee. Through a suite of field days, forums, training and ...
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Glenlyon Dam Fish Restocking Group
The Glenlyon Dam Fish Restocking Group commenced a stocking management plan in the region in 1986 prepared in partnership with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. Now, more than 10,000 Murray Cod fingerlings have been stocked each year ...
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Gatton State Primary School - Westpac Education Award
Gatton State Primary School has made a significant contribution to the area's environmental sustainability through participation in a range of community based projects including the Comalco Green and Healthy Schools initiative, developing students learning of local environment and landcare needs, ...
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Desert Channels Queensland NRM Group
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) prides itself on its organisational stability, its innovation, and its capacity to develop valuable and productive partnerships across the very dynamic region. Central to its success in fostering these partnerships is the DCQ NRM's provision of ...
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Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee
Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) has taken unprecedented steps for not-for-profit groups in Queensland, by designing and constructing a community driven educational centre that aims to instigate sustainable behavioural change household by household. This unique project is firmly rooted ...
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Brisbane City Council - Local Government Landcare Partnerships Award
With a vision of protecting and restoring Brisbane's catchments and bays in partnership with the community, Brisbane City Council (BCC) has a comprehensive approach to natural resource management (NRM). The Council's grass-roots Creek Ranger program is a flexible and dynamic local ...
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Advanced Nutrient Solutions
In 2006, concerned by downward trends in cane farm productivity and practices including a continual decline in soil organic matter and rising input costs, a group of four local cane-farming families formed Advanced Nutrient Solutions Pty Ltd (ANS). After conducting ...
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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 ...
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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' ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rosny and Montagu Bay Land and Coastcare Group
Since 1993, the Rosny and Montagu Bay Land and Coastcare Group looks after a prominent stretch of coast and bushland on Hobart's eastern shore, between the Tasman Bridge and Bellerive. The group is dedicated to creating awareness and understanding of ...
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NRM North, TAS - Australian Government Landcare NRM Region Award
NRM North has supported Landcare and community groups in the Northern region of Tasmania by providing action planning for existing groups, particularly groups based in semi-urban areas, or groups that have a particular focus on non-agricultural land. This process incorporates ...
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Melanie Gent - Young Landcare Leader Award
Melanie Gent has implemented a number of landcare projects across Tasmania for many years and has grown from a Green Corps participant at 20 years of age to a highly respected Green Corps Team Leader who mentors and trains her ...
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Matthew Pitt - Innovation in Sustainable Farm Practices
“Cluny” has been in the Pitt family since 1850 with Matthew Pitt taking over the management of the 245 hectare mixed farming property in 1985. Since this time, Matthew has led from the front by developing a sustainable farming enterprise ...
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Maria Weeding
Joining the Southern Midlands Council in 1997, Maria Weeding was the key driver behind the establishment of the Landcare Unit. As a farmer on family property ‘Weedington' and manager of the Council's Landcare Unit, Maria brings a deep knowledge and ...
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Little Swanport Catchment Management Plan Implementation Committee
With a dedicated group of members and a great passion for the sustained future of the catchment, Little Swanport Catchment Management Plan Implementation Committee leads the way in educating and supporting key stakeholders within the region and developing vital natural ...
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Huon Valley Council
Huon Valley Council has a long history of supporting Landcare, Bushcare, Rivercare and Coastcare groups in the Huon Valley providing financial assistance, tools, administration and technical support through its NRM unit. Over the past ten years, in response to pressure ...
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Greening Australia, TAS
In response to a significant loss of Indigenous ecological knowledge in Tasmania, Greening Australia (Tasmania), in partnership with Weetapoona and the Indigenous Land Corporation delivered a three year National Landcare Program (NLP) project. The project aimed to engage young Indigenous ...
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Desley Kippax
Huon Valley's Desley Kippax has been nominated for a National Landcare Award for her role and achievements as the mainstay of Cygnet Junior Landcare and Port Cygnet Land and Watercare since 1997. Project Detail Huon Valley's Desley Kippax's role and achievements with ...
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Deloraine High Landcare Group
Made up of students from Deloraine District High, the Deloraine High Landcare group works to enhance biodiversity within the Meander Valley and surrounding districts through the protection, enhancement and restoration of the natural environment, while providing learning outcomes for students ...
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Brian Baxter
Brian Baxter, a fourth generation landholder owns and manages “Greenside”, a 693 hectare property at Pipers River, running 600 merino sheep for wool production, 1400 sheep for prime lamb production ,120 angus cattle ,and grows poppys pyretheum lucerne and trees. ...
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Birds Tasmania
The work of Birds Tasmania, both in monitoring bird populations and in raising community awareness contributes to improving the sustainable use and management of the coastal zone. Specifically, Birds Tasmania is working to protect coastal hotspots and Ramsar wetlands Project Detail Hobart ...
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Pialligo Apples
Pialligo contains some of the best agricultural land in the Canberra region. Since taking over a four hectare block in the area in 1984, Jonathan and Robyn Banks have transformed the apple orchard from a conventional chemical based system, using ...
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Nicholas Lever
Nicholas Lever, together with the organising committee, created the Sustainable Careers Expo to highlight to students the need for sustainable career choices. To ensure students are fully aware of environmentally friendly work options is a small but vital step in ...
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Maryke Booth
Through her involvement with the Molonglo Catchment Group, Friends of Grasslands, Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare Committee and the Royalla Landcare Group, Maryke has made a real difference to her local environment and has educated and inspired many members of the community ...
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Lanyon High School
By incorporating environment and sustainability into the school curriculum and working with community groups and industry on a number of projects, Lanyon High School is ensuring a sustainable future and promoting community awareness and responsibility. The efforts of Lanyon students ...
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Greening Australia Capital Region
Although there is increasing understanding of the problems and issues facing degraded woodlands in agricultural landscapes, the greatest environmental challenge is finding practical and cost effective solutions for rehabilitating these areas. In 2006, Greening Australia Capital Region (GACR) developed the ...
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Farrer Ridge Parkcare Group
The future of Farrer Ridge is being protected and nurtured by the Farrer Ridge Parkcare Group through a range of innovative and hands-on activities. The dedication of the volunteers will enable the work to continue and encourage the next generation ...
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Craft ACT
The Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage Residency pilot project is a unique partnership between Craft ACT and Namadgi National Park. The project encourages community engagement through exhibitions and events which draw attention to landscapes both environmentally and historically highlighting the important heritage ...
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Billabong Aboriginal Development Corporation
Billabong Aboriginal Development Corporation (BADC) was established in 1998 to provide a range of community support and development opportunities for the ACT Indigenous community. Located on 2.4 hectares in Holt, BADC undertakes a number of initiatives which deliver NRM outcomes ...
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ACT Sustainable Schools Initiative
The ACT Sustainable Schools Initiative is a program to assist ACT schools to reduce their ecological footprint, enhance the schools biodiversity and educate for sustainability through the school curriculum. Schools are encouraged and supported to engage with local experts and ...
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ACT National Resource Management Council
A feature of the ACT National Resource Management Council's role is its support for the local NRM community, hosting secretariat support for the ACT and Region Catchment and Landcare Association (CLA). This group is the peak body for Landcare in ...
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Glen Innes Natural Resources Advisory Committee (GLENRAC)
Coolatai grass (Hyparrhenia hirta) is emerging as a serious threat to both agricultural production and biodiversity in the Glen Innes District. While it isn't a proclaimed noxious weed, Coolatai grass can be a serious ecological threat and reduces productivity by taking ...
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DemoDAIRY Research & Demonstration Farm
DemoDAIRY in the Western Victorian Dairy Region has conducted an investigation to determine if the average dairy farm produces enough methane gas in the anaerobic effluent ponds to generate electricity at an affordable price. With support from Woolworths and Landcare Australia ...
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TAFCO Rural Supplies - SMARTchoice Weather Network
In October 2006 the Victorian tobacco industry ceased production. That industry had been economically significant to towns in the Upper Northeast River Valleys of Victoria. In excess of 200 families potentially required new enterprises to conduct on high value irrigated land formerly ...
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Newcourt Farm - Drought Fodder Plantation Trial
A Western Australian wheat/sheep farming family from the Mount Marshall Shire has been trialling the endurance of the native shrub Rhagodia in drought conditions to identify its suitability as drought fodder. Rhagodia is known to be suited to low rainfall ...
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Upper Great Southern Oil Mallee Growers Association
Revegetation with woody perennials in Western Australia has been an essential component in restoring ecosystem water, nutrient and energy balance. Large scale plantings across the whole farming landscape using the hardy ‘Mallee' eucalypt species has been expanding since the 1990's in ...
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Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone
Over the past ten years, the Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone has brought the guiding principles of landcare to regional Western Australia and helped guide local landholders in sustainable resource use. Since its inception in 2001, the WWLZ has worked in the ...
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Save Manly Dam Catchment Committee - Return of the Mermaids
The home of Manly's mermaids is getting a makeover. Through its “Return of the Mermaids” restoration project, commenced in 2002, the Save Manly Dam Catchment Committee is restoring Mermaid Pool to its former pristine condition. Located in the heart of Manly and ...
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Merri Creek Management Committee - Making Friends for Urban Grasslands
A diverse group of Reservoir and Fawkner residents came together to learn about and protect their native grasslands in a project organised by the Merri Creek Management Committee (MCMC). In the project, funded by the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management ...
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Gunditj Mirring Partnership Project
A project in Victoria's southwest is taking steps to close the gap between contemporary and traditional landcare through a partnership project between the region's Indigenous community and catchment management authority. The Gunditj Mirring Partnership Project, a collaboration between the Gunditj Mirring ...
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Friends of Westgate Park
The Friends of Westgate Park have turned an inner-city wasteland into an oasis of biodiversity. In the twelve years since their foundation, the FoWP group has taken the park – in past lives a sand mine, a rubbish tip and an ...
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DPI - Helping culturally diverse orchardists in the Shepparton region adapt
Repeatedly-lowered quotas of pears and peaches from the local cannery have forced Shepparton fruit-growers to diversify their production, with many Williams pears and canning peaches being removed and destroyed. With no reliable markets to give incentives for replanting, productive land ...
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Goulburn Broken CMA - Build us a (nest) box
Some of Victoria's smallest inhabitants are getting a boost from a partnership between local schools and Bunnings Warehouse stores designed to get students involved in hands-on conservation. The project engages students and teachers from local schools to build nest-boxes for local ...
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Bentleigh Secondary College
Bentleigh Secondary College, in the south metropolitan region of Victoria, is combining technological innovation with old-fashioned education to create a more sustainable school for its students. After hiring Bill Thomas has Head of Sustainability in 2007, the school has taken great ...
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Bass Coast Landcare Network - Environmental Detectives
The Bass Coast Landcare Network is using its Environmental Detectives program to connect students with the world around them through education and hands-on learning. The program, a collaboration between member groups of the Network and regional schools, aims to introduce students ...
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Inglewood & Texas Landcare Association - Dumaresq Valley Sub-Catchment Plan
The primary producers of the Dumaresq Valley Sub-Catchment Group in the Darling Downs of Queensland set out in 2008 to produce a sub-catchment plan for their area to guide them towards sustainable farming practices. The development process, which included a series ...
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Glenelg Hopkins CMA - Plantings for carbon sequestration
Citipower and Powercor has funded ten planting projects in the Glenelg Hopkins region. Co-ordintaed by the Glenelg Hopkins CMA, the funding has been used to purchase seedlings for seven community groups to plant at range of sites that provide both ...
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Hallston Landcare Group - Strzelecki Sustainable & Productive Pastures
The Hallston Landcare Group has been active in assisting farmers to reduce soil loss and better manage north facing slopes on the drier areas of South Gippsland hill country. After three years of drought, pastures on the steeper north facing slopes ...
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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 ...
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Birchip Cropping Group - Wildlife ponds
The Birchip Cropping Group has shown that wildlife ponds are a new way to compensate for losses to wildlife habitat due to impending changes in irrigation water reticulation in the Wimmera Mallee. The development of the Wimmera Mallee pipeline and the ...
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Birchip Cropping Group - Alternative ‘N' for Mallee Farming Systems and ‘Hay Decisions'
The Birchip Cropping Group, supported by a Woolworths Sustainable Farming Grant, has undertaken to assist farmers reduce costs and better protect the health of their soils when cropping through drought conditions. They have tackled this through two initiatives in the ...
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Bega Cheese
Due to highly variable climatic conditions affecting the dairy industry in the Bega Valley, the pressure from feeding out to stock during drought conditions or severe wet events has degraded pastures and soils and, in turn, impacted on animal health. ...
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Project Penguin
The Little Penguin population of Manly are endangered and vulnerable to the impact of humans and domestic animals. Often, the little penguins come close to the shore, wharf areas and even into nearby homes. It is necessary to create awareness ...
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Ningaloo Turtle Program
Turtle monitoring is an important aspect in the long term survival of turtle populations along the Ningaloo coastline. Monitoring helps determine the abundance of nests on specific sections of coastline and observe disturbance and predator threats on nests. Project Summary The Ningaloo ...
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Lower Murray Darling Catchment Management Authority Native Fish Release
Poor water quality in the Murray Darling Catchment due to the presence of carp has impacted the numbers of fish, crayfish and other aquatic animals. Releasing large numbers of native fingerlings into the Murray River will assist in boosting native ...
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Australian Seabird Rescue
Marine debris and domestic waste that finds its way into oceans and coastline breeding grounds has harmful impacts on bird and marine life. Cleanups of the coastline are necessary to remove debris which can entangle or be ingested by seabirds ...
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The Dolphin Research Institute's 'i sea, i care' program
Recent research in Victoria has shown that 90% of Victorians value marine ecosystems in other states above their own. The ‘i sea, i care' program seeks to change these attitudes and make Victorians more appreciative of their local environment through ...
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Perennial Pastures Pay in the Long Term
Weeds are always a threat, particularly broadleaf weeds following summer rain. The Seeliger's work on the principle that the best way to beat these weeds is to provide competition. Currently annual grasses such as barley grass and ...
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The Mid Torrens Catchment Group- 10 years of supporting NRM activities
When the property was purchased three years ago it was one large paddock consisting of four on-stream dams, watercourses choked with exotic trees such as poplar, willow and ash and dotted with woody weeds like blackberry and briar rose. The ...
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Achievable Intensive Horse Keeping
When Jacqueline and Bob purchased the property eight years ago it was covered in salvation Jane, there were no trees and they spent the first year removing wire and junk from the paddocks (Figure 1). Another problem they initially faced ...
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Birchip Cropping Group - Phosphorus use in the Wimmera Mallee
Consecutive years of below average rainfall (including five droughts in the last seven seasons) and an increase in the cost of fertiliser has resulted in a large reduction in fertiliser being applied by grain producers at sowing. A concern within ...
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Bellarine Catchment Network
Swan Bay is recognised as an area of international significance by the International Convention on Wetlands of International Importance for the extraordinary diversity of migratory bird life it supports, as well as the abundance of marine fauna and flora through ...
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Great Gardens and Landcare Solutions (the company)
To assist the community to reassess their approach towards a more comprehensively sustainable way of life by introducing techniques that will help them save on their energy bills, lessen the impact on the environment and can be easily implemented. Project Detail Background ...
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Koaladoors Junior Wildlifers Group
The Framlingham Fires in January 2007 had a devastating impact on Victorian Koala populations. This State Forest, owned and operated by the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust, was an isolated pocket of natural bushland which was home to a huge population of native ...
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Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme
Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been discarded, abandoned at sea or lost accidently, and remain in the ocean moving around with currents and tides. The Ghost Nets continue to trap fish, including threatened species, undersized and protected fish ...
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Horsley Park Landcare
The project site has historically been cleared for the purposes of pasture and market gardening. The landholders are now in the process of revegetating with indigenous species to reinstate an area of Cumberland Plain Woodland. Project Detail Background to Project Horsley Park Landcare ...
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Kowree Farm Tree Group
Buloke woodland is an important habitat for Victoria's most endangered bird, the Southeastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. This project seeks to protect and restore this habitat as part of a broader landscape-scale initiative to provide habitat linkages in western Victoria. Project Detail Background ...
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Chatsworth Landcare Group
Temperate south-eastern lowland native grasslands are among Australia's most threatened plant communities and have been listed as a nationally threatened ecological community under the federal government's Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999. In Victoria, these communities have been reduced in range ...
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Boyne Calliope Catchment Group
The Boyne and Calliope River Catchments experienced a significant increase in weed populations over recent years as a result of the ever increasing dry seasonal conditions and prolonged drought. Dry conditions meant a lack of competing pasture, but also the ...
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Inland Elite Dairy Network
The stabilisation of organic wastes such as raw manure into humified compost prior to land application eliminates odours, makes nutrients readily available to plants and prevents the raw wastes from becoming phyto-toxic to plant growth. Humified compost production also eliminates ...
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Gurra Downs
Extended drought conditions in the Riverland of SA created significant negative economic and social impacts on rural communities. Due to severe water restrictions and extremes in temperature, confidence of horticulturalists was undermined as traditional crop types withered and died. Gurra Downs' ...
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Dairy NSW, QLD Dairyfarmers Organisation, Sub-Tropical Dairy Program
In response to key Natural Resource Management and water quality issues, the dairy industry has established networks, processes and tools to help meet regional objectives across relevant Catchment Management Authority (CMA) regions. DairySAT is a valuable assessment tool for dairy ...
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Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc
Conventional farming of cereal crops in the South-west Slopes region has involved cultivation prior to sowing. This removal of ground cover in the form of stubble has lead to soil degradation, soil erosion and a decline in soil structure. Stubble ...
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Eyre Peninsula NRM Board
Prior to commencing the project in 2008, the Eyre Peninsula had been experiencing a run of seasons with well below average rainfall. The low rainfall resulted in failed crops and limited paddock feed, which in turn lead to farmer equity ...
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