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The community voice for sustainability throughout
the Murrumbidgee catchment.

15 Landcare Networks | 140 landcare groups | 2000 landcarers

Regional Landcare Facilitators initiative

Caring for our Country

Applicant guidelines now available

Funding will be provided under this initiative for organisations to employ a Landcare facilitator to provide, within a specific natural resource management (NRM) region, ongoing coordination and support for Landcare groups and networks of community volunteers working on and off-farm to encourage improved sustainable farm and land management practices and ecosystem services and landscape scale conservation.

Minister Tony Burke - address at 2010 National Landcare Forum.

Adelaide

23 March 2010

Eco Schools Grant - application deadline

Sun, 28/03/2010 - 15:41 — ML
Date: 
Fri, 21/05/2010 - 17:45

Environment, Climate Change and WaterThis program provides grants to schools to give them the opportunity to involve their students and community in developing and implementing environmental management projects.

Objectives

Boobook Declaration

Boobook declaration
The Boobook Declaration is a call to the Australian Government to take four essential actions in 2010 to safeguard Australia’s rich and beautiful diversity of plants, animals and ecosystems. The declaration arose from an informal meeting of groups and individuals concerned at the lengthening catalogue of bad news about collapsing ecosystems and recognising the impetus for action represented by the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.

"Fears the land is losing its goodwill"

By Rosslyn Beeby, Science and Environment Reporter
The Canberra Times
05 Feb, 2010 07:56 AM

Australia's Landcare volunteers have been ''alienated and disenfranchised'' by the Rudd Government's $2.5 billion Caring for Our Country environmental grants scheme, a Senate report says.

The hard-hitting report, tabled yesterday by the Senate's rural and regional affairs committee, stops short of calling the program a failure but recommends a comprehensive overhaul.

Tony Burke: farmers are my advisers

November 26, 2009

ON-FARM advice has been a key to making the right decisions for agriculture, says TONY BURKE

Sometimes the first decisions you make are the most important.

Two years after becoming Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, it's been clear that everything which has followed was characterised by a decision I made on day one: to spend as much time as possible with people who work the land, on their land.

Every election promise and subsequent policy decision has been affected by the advice I've received on farm.

Landcare Grants for Woolworths Sustainable Farming Projects

Landcare Australia Ltd
Woolworths

Your Land,Your Soil & Your Future

Yass Area Network
Wednesday 21 October 2009

The Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups (YAN) will host a public workshop in Yass on Wednesday 21 October 2009 on soil health, soil carbon and the role that effective soil management can play in sustainable production and managing global warming.

Have your say - the development of a government framework to support Landcare

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the National Landcare Facilitator Project are coordinating a process to develop a framework to support Landcare for the next 25 years.

Community Action Grants

Caring for our Country

Eligible community groups can apply for grants from $5,000 to $20,000 (GST exclusive) to take action to help protect and conserve Australia’s environment.

Eligible community groups include:

  • community groups involved in coastal rehabilitation, restoration and conservation
  • groups of farmers or land managers working on sustainable farming or improving natural resource management
  • Indigenous partnerships involved in protecting or improving the environment
  • community groups involved in biodiversity conservation, environmental protection or managing natural resources

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