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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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