There are approximately 6,000 volunteer environmental groups across Australia that fall under the Landcare umbrella. Where possible, and through the support of our corporate and philanthropic partners, Landcare Australia provides resources and distributes funding to these groups, while also raising awareness of the Landcare movement through national promotional campaigns including Landcare Week and the National Landcare Awards. Landcare Australia brokers partnerships with corporate and government which enable the organisation to administer grants programs for groups around the country, helping ensure that a difference can continue to be made at grass roots level.
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Time to get our bird-watching on! The Aussie Bird Count starts today, and we're excited to support our feathered friends at BirdLife. Let’s flock together and start counting!
It's FINALLY time—the Aussie Bird Count starts today! 🎉🐦 Get your apps ready, head outside, and start counting! Each count takes just 20 minutes, and you can do as many as you like until October 20th. Have fun! 🎊 https://lnkd.in/dRm2B-y #AussieBirdCount #BirdLifeAustralia #BirdLifeOz #Nature #Birds
🌿 Landcare Future Leaders Speak Out at the ALCA Conference in Sydney 🌿Australian Land Conservation Alliance Today in Sydney, young conservation leaders came together at the ALCA Private Land Conservation Conference for the Future Leaders Workshop. Topics included the future of conservation and the importance of mobilising young people to get involved to restore and protect nature. 🌍 The workshop also discussed the benefits to the mental health and wellbeing of young people. 🧠💚 Facilitated by Landcare Australia’s Gabrielle Stacey, speakers and presentations included: • From school project to national conservation organisation with Kurt Jones, CEO Co-Exist Australia 🌱 • Research insights of conservation volunteering with Shana Shaa, Honours student at University of Sydney📚 • How to engage volunteers in environmental restoration with activities for young people to engage, explore and restore from Sophie Blair Wildventure, Greater Sydney Landcare 🌳 • Designing a volunteering experience for young people to create connections, collaborations, and career pathways with Anette Cavanagh, CEO Intrepid Landcare 🌿🤝 The event was inspiring and unlocked ideas that will help shape the planning of the NextGen Landcare Summit, which will be hosted as part of the 2025 National Landcare Conference on the Gold Coast. 🌟 #LandcareAust #IntrepidLandcare #CoExist #ALCA
Landcare Australia is taking a pause to acknowledge World Mental Health Day. 🌍🧠 The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. 🌿💬 The landcare movement is all about connecting and growing community as well as the landscape and environment and fostering a deeper understanding of nature. 🌱🤝 Volunteering with a landcare group has been shown to improve mental and physical health for many. 💪😊 There are also many ways to get involved – from rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck into planting and revegetation, 🌳🌻 to helping with bush, river, and beach clean-ups, 🏞️🏖️ to back-office support, helping to organize the group. 📋✨ Consider getting involved with a local landcare group or environmental community group near you, and feel the difference being outdoors with nature and caring for the environment with other like-minded people can bring. 🌿🤗 Building resilience in local communities: The wellbeing benefits of participating in Landcare is available to read and download at: https://lnkd.in/gK_AEg7C
🌟 Know a nature hero? 🌱 It’s time to give them the spotlight! Whether they're planting seeds of change or advocating for the environment, nominate an individual or group who are actively restoring and protecting their local environment to be featured in our Landcare Champion Stories! 🌳 Let’s dig up some incredible stories and leaf no champions behind! 🍃 Check them out here: https://lnkd.in/gG7AyZwE and nominate your champion today!
The 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award is open for nominations – have you nominated an individual, group or organisation yet? 🌱🏆 2020 Bob Hawke Landcare Award winner, Andrew Stewart shares some words of encouragement on nominating and how the award has helped his journey. The 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award is awaiting nominations for individuals, groups or organisations that are actively shaping innovative farming systems to improve sustainability, encouraging sustainable agriculture practices in their community, creating awareness of landcare and responding to environmental challenges. 🌾🌏 Sounds like someone you might know, nominate them today and tag them to the post? 🙌 Nominate here: https://lnkd.in/gt8HZEw
🌍🐨 Happy World Animal Day! 🐾 Today, we celebrate the incredible diversity of native wildlife that call Australia home. From birdlife and insects to the vibrant marine life in the Great Barrier Reef, landcare volunteers are working all year round on projects to enhance and protect native habitats. This year’s theme, "The world is their home too," reminds us that our unique Australian species share this land with us. 🌿 Taking action with environmental conservation and sustainable land management activities helps landcare groups and other community volunteers to care for their local environment. What native animal are you protecting in your community? #WorldAnimalDay #ProtectOurWildlife #AustralianAnimals #TheWorldIsTheirHomeToo #LandcareAustralia World Animal Day
That’s a wrap! We’re thrilled to have partnered with Bupa's Healthy Cities program, where 2.1 billion steps have unlocked over $1 million for nature regeneration during the month of September. It’s inspiring to see so many people across the country get moving, including our own team at Landcare Australia. Together, we’ve made a collective impact to help restore our natural environment! 👣 🌳
What a month! Together our people took more than 2 billion steps across Bupa Asia Pacific as part of our Healthy Cities Challenge… Smashing our target by more than 100%. In total, we had 13,500 people participate in the Challenge, with people from across our business, our friends and family, along with some of our corporate and community partners all getting active to support investment in nature along with giving a boost to their own physical and mental health. As part of these efforts, more than $1 million will be invested towards projects being undertaken by our regeneration partners Landcare Australia, Trees That Count and A Plastic Ocean Foundation. Thank you to everyone who got involved by getting active for a healthy planet for healthy people.
Landcare Australia acknowledges Mental Health Awareness Month. This year’s theme, “Let’s Talk About It,” prompts us all to reflect on our mental health and overall wellbeing, irrespective of whether we’ve personally encountered mental illness. It’s no secret that for decades, those involved in Landcare have testified to a greater sense of self, both physically and mentally, resulting from an enhanced connection with their local environment. This in turn has boosted community wellbeing and it had long been the desire of the landcare movement to quantify the significance of these benefits. So how did we do this? We worked in partnership with KPMG Australia to produce a unique Landcare study which we published in 2021 titled “Building resilience in local communities: The wellbeing benefits of participating in Landcare”. This report surveyed more than 1,000 Landcare volunteers and coordinators from Landcare groups. KPMG Australia also interviewed people involved in different landcare activities from across the country. In the survey, almost half of all participants surveyed, 46 per cent, reported clear improvements in their mental wellbeing. The report demonstrates participation in Landcare can lead to significant mental and physical wellbeing benefits through increased connection with people, communities and the environment. It also contains compelling data suggesting substantial improvements in wellbeing can lead to savings in healthcare costs for individuals involved in landcare activities. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/gK_AEg7C
🚨 CLOSING TODAY! 🚨 Today is your LAST chance to apply for a $5,000 to $25,000 grant for your next tree planting project in an urban or peri-urban area. ⏳ You have until 5:00pm AEST to apply for a Bupa Landcare Grant. 🕔 ‼️ Don’t miss this opportunity for landcare groups, 'Friends-of', Coastcare, WildCare, Dunecare, Bushcare groups, or any other environmental community group, Traditional Owners, First Nations organisations, local governments, NRM organisations, and non-profits to apply for funding for a tree planting project 🌱🌳 https://lnkd.in/gyK-vBYc
Landcare Australia congratulates the newly formed Indigenous Country and Biodiversity Alliance. This is their announcement: We are pleased to announce the newly formed Indigenous Country and Biodiversity Alliance (ICBA). ICBA aims to ground biodiversity management in Indigenous practices and Culture to ensure the best outcomes for Country, our people and the world. ICBA is made up of Indigenous organisations working across Australia, including the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, the Indigenous Desert Alliance, Kimberley Land Council, and the Aboriginal Carbon Foundation. We aim to change the mainstream paradigm on how biodiversity is managed as the new Nature Repair Market comes into being. We see this as a real opportunity to ensure that Indigenous people are involved in every step of the new market's development, implementation and accessibility to maximise the biodiversity, cultural and financial core benefits of the market. With 80% of the world's biodiversity found on the lands of Indigenous Peoples, and 10% of that global biodiversity located in Australia, this creates a huge responsibility for us all to maintain and improve this, not just for Australia but for the whole world. ICBA will be represented at the Global Nature Positive Summit coming up in Sydney in October, for those attending we look forward to connecting at the Summit.