#Landcare
is a grassroots movement supporting individuals & community groups to protect & sustainably manage Australia’s natural environment & its productivity
Landcare Australia and
@TreesForLifeSA
have just completed a massive direct seeding project in Swan Reach, South Australia! After 3 years of drought and in just 12 days, Trees For Life sowed 750 kilograms of local indigenous seed across 1,500 km!
SOUND ON! 🔊 East Gippsland Landcare Network and EnviroDNA are working together to safeguard the future of the platypus with support from the WIRES Landcare Australia Wildlife Relief and Recovery Grants. 🎥
@eastgippscma
@enviro_DNA
@WIRES_NSW
@landcarevic
Congratulations, Minister
@tanya_plibersek
, on your leadership in achieving the successful passage of the Nature Repair Market Bill in the House of Representatives! Landcare Australia is excited by this milestone and eagerly anticipates the Bill's progression through the Senate.
Thanks to the unprecedented volume of donations to WIRES,💚
@WIRES_NSW
& Landcare Australia has awarded $1.185million to 64 groups across the country to support wide-ranging regeneration projects focused on restoring habitat impacted by the bushfires. 🦎🌳🦜
.
@AridRecovery
are installing water fountains to provide water to threatened species, 1 of the measures the group is using during the drought w/ the help from
@WIRES_NSW
Landcare Australia Wildlife Relief & Recovery Grants. In photo are 2 burrowing bettongs using the water points
With funding support from
@WIRESWildlife
@LandcareAust
Wildlife Relief and Recovery Grants,
@AridRecovery
are mounting a battle to protect some of Australia's rarest species, burrowing bettongs from the impacts of the worst drought in recent memory
It’s National Volunteer Week and we’d like to say
#thank
you to our amazing Landcare
#volunteers
who generously give their time and energy to care for our land and water. Your hard work and dedication inspires us and makes the world a better place.
#nationalvolunteerweek
#NVW2018
Thanks to his commitment to developing future scientists & research for soil management, soil health scientist, advocate & educator, Prof. John McLean Bennett is a 2022 General Jeffery Soil Health Award finalist! Read more: 🌱
@SoilsAdvocate
Landcare Australia welcomes the Nature Repair Market bill, which has been introduced by the Hon.
@tanya_plibersek
, Minister for the Environment & Water. As this process evolves, we will support the opportunities to actively restore & protect Australia’s natural environment.
These are some of the beautiful bird species of Fifteen Mile Creek outside Wangaratta, VIC benefiting from
@WIRESWildlife
@LandcareAust
Grant support. Volunteers from Greta Valley Landcare Group will use the funds to facilitate crucial weed control program along this reach 🦜
It's no coincidence that World Frog Day & the International Day of Happiness share the same date 🐸💗
You are looking into the eyes of a Green and Golden Bell Frog. Once common - this species is now endangered.
Learn more: | 📷:
@austmus
/ Steven Mahoney
Landcare Australia celebrates World Wetlands Day and acknowledges the thousands of
#landcare
groups and volunteers across Australia who are actively caring for the environmental protection, enhancement and conservation of land, water, waterways and coasts.
#WorldWetlandsDay
Vale The Hon. Bob Hawke AC
We are grateful for the vision Bob Hawke had to champion the protection of the environment with Landcare, now one of the largest volunteer movements in Australia with thousands of people working together to care for the land.
You can support your local group activities and meet other people who have a shared vision for conservation and suitable land management. No matter where you live, there is a group near you managing a local environmental issue. They are working all year round to make a difference
🎉Congrats Ivanhoe Central School, winner of the 2022
@woolworths
Junior Landcare Team Award!
Their ‘Outback Adventure Farm’ is a great example of how to win the hearts & minds of students by growing a farm from the bare ground!
@ABCEducationAU
@LandcareNSW
#JuniorLandcare
Volunteers from Beechmont Landcare are using funds from the
@WIRESWildlife
@LandcareAust
Wildlife Relief & Recovery Grants to protect native species with a riparian Refuge at Headwaters Back Creek & Akoonah Timbarra Reserve. For more info, visit
@QWaLC
Are you based in Port Macquarie-Hastings region? A conservation project w/ funding from
@WIRESWildlife
@LandcareAust
Recovery Grants, is offering u the opportunity to grow food & habitat for the bushfire impacted animals of Port Macquarie Koala Hospital🐨
🙌 Check out farmer, absolute landcare legend and proud Torres Strait Islander woman Nat Sommerville chatting live with ABC Country Hour's Michael Condon at the National Landcare Conference!
#landcareconf22
Today is
#WorldSoilDay
! Healthy, productive soil plays a crucial role in all of our lives, as highlighted by outgoing National Advocate for Soil Health, the Hon. Michael Jeffery, in his article for the latest Landcare in Focus. Check it out here:
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2022 General Jeffery Soil Health Award! Read how these champions for soil health are educating & inspiring others to care for our soil here 🌱
@SoilsAdvocate
With grants received from WIRES Landcare Australia Wildlife Relief and Recovery Grants, Upper River Torrens Landcare Group aims to support property owners who wish to restore wildlife habitat in Adelaide Hills for species like this cute lil fella! 👋🌱🐨
@WIRES_NSW
@AHCouncil
Do you know a woman in landcare who is caring for the environment in her community? Don’t miss out on nominating yourself or someone you know for the Women in Landcare Award. Hurry – nominations close 1 March
#LandcareAwards
Friends of the Western Ground Parrot
@FriendsWGP
going to inspiring lengths to protect one of the world’s rarest parrots with support from WIRES Landcare Australia Wildlife Relief and Recovery Grants.
@WIRES_NSW
With support from
@WIRESWildlife
&
@LandcareAust
Grants, dedicated volunteers with Eco Action Kangaroo Island are aiming to restore the habitat for the Glossy Black cockatoo, after large numbers of the island's sheoak trees were decimated by the fires
Calling all budding David Attenborough's!! 📸📸
@CostasGarden
wants kids across
#Australia
to grab a camera and snap photos of the 🌻🌼🌻 flora and fauna 🌱🌿🌱 in their backyard for a chance to win one of ten $250 cameras. 📸
#whatsinyourbackyard
On National Ag Day, we would like to recognise the fantastic work Landcare groups, farmers & graziers are doing across Australia, helping to drive more sustainable farming practices, including the improved management of our soils, waterways & biodiversity.
👩🌾 The Watsons are a family of cotton farmers from Northwest NSW that have been improving local biodiversity for generations. 🌏💦🌱
👉 Read more about this
@CountryRoad
x Landcare Australia Biodiversity Project:
What a bee-autiful day! 🐝🐝
Junior Landcare celebrates World Bee Day 🐝😍🐝 Try our new learning activity ‘getting the buzz on bees and other beneficial insects’. You can do it in school, at home or with your youth group.
#nowhappening
Plenary Panel: Women in Landcare where Liza Dale-Hallet, Naomi Edwards, Karen O’Keefe, and Margot Tesch - talks about the challenges they faced and how they have effectively influenced change in their areas.
#LandcareConf18
20 Million Trees is part of the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. The aim is to plant 20 million native trees & understory, & establish healthy, self-sustaining tree-based ecosystems. Check out this infographic of
@LandcareAust
's contribution.
#LandcareWeek2019
Last night, the Parliamentary Friends of Landcare group was officially launched by the Co-chairs, Senator Perin Davey and Senator Raff Ciccone.
We warmly welcome support from parliamentarians for the national landcare movement.
Did you know that 48% of Australia's land is farmland? A big shout out to all the Landcare farming groups and farmers working to make sure our farmland is healthy and sustainable.
#nationalagday
#landcare
Marking
#ThreatenedSpeciesDay
Landcarers, traditional owners, researchers and volunteers are working together to save endangered 🦋🦋only found in East Gippsland
Project funded by
#Landcare
Led Bushfire Recovery Grants
@DeptAgNews
@UniMelb
Farmers with clever, sustainable agriculture ideas can turn them into reality by applying for grants of up to $50,000 under Round three of the Smart Farms Small Grants program. Visit the Community Grants Hub Website for more info
Honoured to be supporting
@AridRecovery
& their inspiring efforts to protect SA’s unique desert marsupials from impacts of drought, with help from
@WIRESWildlife
@LandcareAust
Wildlife Relief & Recovery Grants. An incredible project!
@LandcareSA
Celebrating
#LandcareWeek
#BobHawke
’s granddaughter and Landcare 30 Years ambassador Sophie Taylor-Price announced Landcare Youth Summit in Wentworth NSW to mark 30 years since late former Prime Minister delivered speech to launch national formation of Landcare movement
#auspol
We have some exciting news to share with you… Bogong Moths have been spotted at Mt Hotham! Thanks to citizen scientist Jodi for using Moth Tracker to share this dizzying image of thousands of Bogong Moths swarming around the chairlift at the ski resort.
Hundreds of Bogong Moths have been sighted at Mt Hotham, near where the hungry Mountain Pygmy-possums are waking up. Let us know if you see any Bogong Moths by using our Moth Tracker! More info:
Photo taken by moth tracker Jodi
👋 Farmers and land managers - it's time to help out our friends at
@Dig_Up_Dirt
by participating in their nationwide survey of AM fungi across Australia's agroecosystems!
Find out more here:
#soilhealth
#digupdirt
Landcare Australia brought Members of Parliament, corporate Australia & landcare volunteers together with First Nations organisations to launch the new national First Nations Landcare Working Group. Learn More
Celebrating
#WorldSoilDay
with the General Jeffery Soil Health Award . The award will be presented to a farmer, land manager, extension specialist or researcher who is making an outstanding contribution to innovations in soil health. For more info visit
🤔 Compare the pair 🤔
Same spot, same fence. The difference two years can make!
✅ Thousands of landcarers are making an enormous difference every day. Sometimes it takes a while to see the results come to fruition.
📸 Riparian Restoration at Brownhill Creek - Adelaide
👩🌾 Have you got a story about managing healthy landscapes in the agricultural sector?
The Landcare Farming Program wants to help you share your work with a wider audience, and provide access to funding.
✅ Submit your expression of interest today:
Happy
#NationalTreeDay
! We're taking a moment to celebrate the beauty and importance of our trees. Thank you to the countless individuals, groups, and schools across the country who lovingly plant and care for the trees, every day.
#Landcare
𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦! Applications for the
@WIRES_NSW
Landcare Wildlife Relief & Recovery Grants closes on April 30. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 $𝟮𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 for eligible
#Landcare
groups & other environmental groups
We would like to acknowledge the Landcare groups and volunteers who are often at the forefront of supporting landholders and communities with an extra pair of caring hands in these times.
Landcarers from
@BCLandcare
are working with support funds from
@WIRESWildlife
&
@LandcareAust
Grants to restore habitat incinerated in the
#BlackSummer
fires. The network will work on nest box installation, reveg & weed control at the Grantville Nature Conservation Reserve
💚Happy Landcare Valentine's Day! 💚 From the heartwarming efforts of volunteers to the thriving ecosystems they nurture, love for the land knows no bounds. Check out this inspiring story from Pentland Hills Landcare Group:
Together w/
@WIRES_NSW
we are happy to announce that 64 environmental groups across the country will benefit from a landmark $1.1M grants partnership supporting recovery of wildlife habitats impacted by bushfire & drought. For full list of recipients visit
To say the 2021 State of the Environment Report is devastating is an understatement. It recognises what Landcarers across Australia see on the ground every day: our environment is in crisis.
Read Landcare Australia Chair
@doughumann
's statement below.
#SoE2021
General Jeffery, by championing soil health from Parliament to paddock, changed attitudes towards soil sustainability and energised change on farms right across Australia. Nominations for the General Jeffery Soil Health Award will close on March 31
The 2020 Bob Hawke Landcare Award deadline for nominations has been extended to Monday 12 October. Due to the new date for the 2021 National Landcare Conference now held on August 4-6, we have taken this opportunity to extend the deadline for nominations.
🤩 Join us – FREE Webinar this Thursday (10 December)
Meet Emerita Professor Lynette Abbott, the winner of the inaugural 2020 General Jeffery Soil Health Award for her exemplary work in soil health. 👩🔬🌱
👉 Subscribe:
@soilhealth
@SoilsWest
@SA_PIRSA
Yanti Winoto-Lewin wins the 2022 Steadfast Young Landcare Leadership Award thanks to her amazing efforts to protect TAS’s unique ecosystems, connect communities to natural places and foster respect for the environment 💚
@LandcareTas
@abchobart
@UTAS_
#LandcareAwards22
We are proud to announce award winning journalist,
@pipcourtney
Host, ABC Landline, as the official 2018 National Landcare Conference and Awards emcee. Join us in October in Brisbane
Recognising the link between oceans and the land, the Yarram Yarram Landcare Network, in partnership with the commercial fishing industry, will replant 200 hectares of broadleaf seagrass to restore seagrass stocks in Corner Inlet.
#CoastcareWeek
Our keynote speaker,
@ProfMarkHowden
, Director, Climate Change Institute, Australia National University talks about the climate change strategy for Landcare
#landcareconf18
Today we launch the national
#Landcare30years
anniversary in Melbourne with
@senbmckenzie
, Minister for Agriculture, Landcare Australia CEO Dr Shane Norrish, and newly appointed ambassador for the Landcare 30-year anniversary,
@SophiePHawke
🤝Today marks the official start of National Volunteer Week 🤝
Here at Landcare Australia we would like to say something to the thousands of volunteers in the Landcare community.....
💚💙❤️THANK YOU❤️💙💚
Be a part of the Landcare movement! Here are 30 things you can do at home or at work to care for our environment.
Share it with your family and friends!
Wishing you a Happy Holiday and a joyful New Year from the Landcare Australia team! 🌱
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the amazing contributions by individuals, groups and organisations in restoring, enhancing and protecting our natural environment 🌳🐝🐨
On 25 September,
@kpmgaustralia
joined a global Day of Action in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals with 500 employees volunteering in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney helping out with environmental projects.