Landcare Australia

CHEP and Landcare Australia partnership over the last five years has seen the two organisations successfully deliver projects that closely align their sustainably goals of delivering environmental and regional community benefits, while also creating value for CHEP’s supply chain partners. 🌿🤝 Landcare Week is a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the contribution Landcare volunteers and groups make in their local communities. 🌏 Lachlan Feggans, Senior Director, Sustainability and ESG has nailed it on the head when he explains how important it is for the team at CHEP to benefit from the educational experiences of getting hands dirty, getting into nature and contributing to the natural environment. 🌳🌱 📹 Check out what he has to say in his message to celebrate Landcare Week. Tanya Plibersek Julie Collins MP #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForEveryone #LIFE #LandcareAustralia #Partnership

🏆Landcare Week Champion Stories! Today we’d like to introduce you to Sharyn Yelverton 🍃🌏Sharyn moved to Tasmania in 2014 and in her first week she joined the Friends of Randalls Bay Coastcare (FORB) where she is significantly contributing to the protection and long-term conservation management of Tasmania’s unique natural places, rare ecosystems and habitat for threatened plants and animals. Sharyn’s infectious passion for the environment has a magnetic effect, inspiring others to get involved and make a difference. 🏅Sharyn’s connection to landcare dates to the very beginning of Landcare movement. A member of The Rapid Creek Landcare group, the first landcare group in NT, rehabilitating and replanting natural vine forest, partially destroyed when the new Darwin airport was built. 🏅Sharyn started the Darwin Urban Environment Action Group and successfully lobbied the then government to look more carefully at their approach to planning. Sharyn was Coordinator of Friends of Randalls Bay Coastcare (FORB) for four years. In 2021 the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC) honoured Sharyn Yelverton with the title of Honorary Life Member. To find out more about Sharyn 👉🏽👉🏽https://lnkd.in/gVgwZucs #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForEveryone #LIFE #Conservation #Volunteers #NGOs

📣💸Exciting new $300,000 Landcare Australia Community Grants program opens today! 🍃🌱You heard it here first! Landcare Australia is kicking off the annual celebration of Landcare Week August 5-11, 2024 by unveiling an exciting new Landcare Australia Community Grants program. 🧑🤝🧑The $300,000 Landcare Australia Community Grants program is open for projects that will help to 🍃revive nature, 🌿boost biodiversity and support volunteers. 💪✨The grants program is open to all landcare groups and other community-led environmental groups across Australia including Bushcare, ‘Friends of’, Coastcare and Dunecare groups and more! 💸💸Grants from $5,000 to $20,000 are available to support what matters most to landcare groups – using local knowledge to restore, enhance and protect their natural environment, increase biodiversity and help improve community engagement in landcare activities. Eligible activities include 📖 educational workshops, 🖼️field days, 🦘🐨🦎restoring wildlife habitat, creating shelterbelts, installing fences, 💦protecting waterways, managing weeds and feral pests, working with Traditional Owners and First Nations organisations, purchasing plants and equipment, installing signage, amongst other landcare activities. 🎯Applications close Friday 20 September 2024. Apply today! To find out the deets – click here 👉🏽https://lnkd.in/gBRAwEvn Tanya Plibersek Costa Georgiadis Julie Collins MP #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForEveryone #LIFE

🌿🌏As we kick off Landcare Week 2024, we want to acknowledge the former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke AC, who created Landcare Australia and landcare as a national movement in 1989.🌿🌏 🌱🚜Over the last 35 years, landcare has evolved to encompass not only farmers and conservationists in rural areas, but everyone in local communities across Australia who are taking action to 🌾restore, 🍃enhance and protect land, 💦waterways and biodiversity. 🍺🍻Since Bob’s passing in 2019, his legacy for the landcare movement continues through Landcare Australia and his close association with Hawke’s Brewing. The team from Hawke’s Brewing have continued to brew beer in his name for the enjoyment for all Australians, with Bob’s royalties going to Landcare Australia to support landcare projects including the Endangered Coastal Emu Protection project in Northern NSW, and 🦀Mudcrabs in Sydney. 🏛️♻️This Landcare Week, we want to acknowledge Bob’s contribution to landcare and his vision for all Australians: “The degradation of our environment is not simply a local problem, nor a problem for one state or another, nor for the Commonwealth alone. Rather, the damage being done to our environment is a problem for us all – and not just government- but for of us individually and together.” 💪🏅We also want to thank the team at Hawke’s Brewing for their continued support for landcare projects where communities come together to care for the land, and each other. A few years ago, the Hawke’s team recorded probably one of the last interviews with Bob. His messages from then are just as important for us to👂listen to today. Start your Landcare Week with a message from Bob and enjoy some beautiful Australian landscapes. Thank you, Bob! Watch Bob Here 📽️ https://lnkd.in/gBwc2hd #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForeEveryone #LIFE

📣Let's celebrate thousands of Landcarers this Landcare Week 2024. The important work to 🍃restore, 🌿enhance and 🧑🤝🧑protect the local environment in communities by landcare groups and other community-led environmental groups across Australia is supported by Landcare Australia. 💚🌱A BIG thank you to the thousands of volunteers, groups, organisations, farmers, youth groups, schools, educators, environmental NGOs and Traditional Owners and First Nations organisations who work together all year round on conservation and sustainable land management activities. ⛏️Get involved in Landcare Week here https://lnkd.in/gA5VEZvm 📽️Learn more about landcare with Australia’s favourite landcarer Costa Georgiadis 📣Share your Landcare Week story with us on Landcarer: https://lnkd.in/gMFWGekz Tanya Plibersek Julie Collins MP #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForEveryone #LIFE #Conservation #Volunteers #NGOs

🏆Landcare Week Champion Stories! Today we are celebrating Dr Hayley McMillan. 🎉 🏅👩🔬Hayley is a well-respected researcher and scientist who helps farmers implement climate change initiatives. Hayley has travelled to some of Australia’s harshest and most productive grazing country for the on-farm research, development of extension material, producer field days and training courses focused on climate change driven initiatives. 🏅🍃Her development and leadership of the Carbon Neutral Grazier Network is an excellent example of her thoughtful approach to farmers implement climate change initiatives. The reach of this group is remarkable - more than 500 members who manage 1.5 million head of cattle, sheep and goats across 2.5 million ha. 🐄🐑🐐 🍃🌱Hayley’s is successfully applying her knowledge of carbon and biodiversity in grazing systems, environmental markets and certification schemes. Her strong empathy for producers and our environment fuels her drive to make a real difference in addressing climate change at the farm level. 👉🏽To find out more about Haley’s work, click here: https://lnkd.in/gey4C-Wn #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForEveryone #LIFE #LandcareAustralia #LandcareChampions Costa Georgiadis Tanya Plibersek Julie Collins MP

🥳Hurry! Landcare in Focus content submissions close September 1! 🗞️Your landcare story matters - the invitation to contribute is now open. This is your opportunity to share with a national audience information about your group or organisation’s activities, project impact including before and after photos. 🧑🤝🧑📝📸 🚨Content submissions close September 1. ✍️Landcare in Focus magazine is the place to create some buzz about your project...For more information and how to contribute to the next issue of Land In Focus, visit: https://lnkd.in/gWDNsKfS

Do you ever think about who cares for the local 🍃bushland, 💦waterways or 🐚coastline where you live or work? ✅You will find that there is a landcare or other local environmental community group who welcome volunteers near you. ✅From Bushcare, ‘Friends of’ groups, Coastcare and Dunecare….so many groups welcome volunteers to help with their conservation activities. ✅We know many people are time poor, however there are many ways to get involved in landcare that won’t take up a huge amount of time, and you can get your friends, family and colleagues involved. ✅Every little bit helps. There’s a reason over 100,000 people are already regular landcare volunteers! Read more about what is landcare and what groups and volunteers do: https://lnkd.in/gM5iHgd9 #LandcareWeek2024 #LandcareIsForEveryone #LIFE

🌱 Schools Tree Day - Friday 26 July 🌱 National Tree Day - Sunday 28 July 🌏Landcare Australia gives shout to our friends at Planet Ark for their great work delivering National Tree Day and Schools Tree Day. 💚🌿Thank you to the landcare groups who are hosting a tree day event this weekend and encouraging volunteers to get their hands dirty to plant native trees, shrubs and grasses in their community. 🧑🤝🧑🌱 Working together to care for our natural environment is a collective effort – thanks to all the schools and volunteers this weekend. 💚 #NationalTreeDay

Private landholders play a crucial role in looking after nature. It takes passion, commitment and dedication to manage land for conservation, which is why it’s great when landholders can come together to share their experiences. The Australian Land Conservation Alliance, the Biodiversity Conservation Trust and Trust for Nature Victoria are delivering a private land conservation forum, especially for landholders. The forum, which will include panel sessions, guest speakers and field trips, is a chance for landholders from different regions to connect, learn from each other, share their challenges and successes, and to provide feedback about what matters to them. ✍️Registrations are now open: https://lnkd.in/grZReZBn Supported by the Victorian Government, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Charles Sturt University. 📆To learn more about other events in your area or to add your own event visit https://lnkd.in/gz_mR3dz #privatelandconservation