The National Landcare Conference will be held at the Parkside Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour in Sydney from September 3rd to 5th in 2012.

The 2012 National Landcare Awards Gala Dinner will be held at the Darling Harbour Parkside Convention Centre Ballroom on September 4th.

Canberra hosted the National Landcare Network's (NLN) quarterly meeting on 21st and 22nd November 2011. This body represents peak community Landcare networks from each State and Territory. The ACT Catchment Landcare Association, supported by the ACT NRM Council hosted the meeting. Discussion covered various ongoing items of interest to the Australian Landcare movement. These ranged from Promotion and Communication of the Landcare movement, Insurance, Climate Change, and Carbon Farming Initiative implications for Landcare, the 2012 National Landcare Forum and the RLF Program.

Submission to the Australian Landcare Council's Australian Framework for Landcare Action Plan

13th June 2011

Introduction

The National Landcare Network (NLN) is the advocacy and representative body for Landcare at the National Level. It consists of the representatives from Peak Bodies for Landcare from each State and Territory. Where no Peak Body exists an appropriate process has been put in place and a representative from that State or Territory has been agreed upon to be the NLN members.

Review of Caring for our Country: Australia's National Resource Management Investment Initiative

The goal of Caring for our Country is

The Gillard Labor Government announced funding for 56 organisations around Australia to support farmers and land managers as well as encourage conservation in local communities.

Each organisation will receive funding of up to $150,000 per year for three years for a Regional Landcare Facilitator.

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, said facilitators will support community Landcare and production groups to adopt sustainable farm and land management practices and to protect Australia’s landscape.

Media Release
7 October 2010
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Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, today announced the appointment of 16 new members to the Australian Landcare Council.

The council is the Australian Government’s key advisory body on Landcare.

“The Gillard Government is committed to supporting the Landcare community, which has been protecting and restoring Australia’s environment and improving the landscape for farmers for the past 20 years,” Minister Ludwig said.

“The appointment of 16 outstanding individuals with demonstrated commitment to their local environment and communities will strengthen Landcare.”

The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) is leading the Australian research community in a national interdisciplinary effort to generate the information needed by decision-makers in government and in vulnerable sectors and communities to manage the risks of climate change impacts.

The Australian Framework for Landcare is now released, building on twenty years of achievements, experience and knowledge since the inception of the Landcare approach.

Coral Love, Chair of the Reference Group responsible for developing the framework on behalf of Landcare communities said, “The Framework provides a foundation to base future development and growth of the Landcare approach and strengthen the Landcare movement.

The Framework process has undergone a number of consultations with the Landcare community over the past year and a half and the aspirations in the document belong to the community.

The Framework is intended as a guide for landcarers and the Landcare community. With two decades of knowledge, experience and achievements to build on and a range of current and emerging environmental challenges, the Australian Framework for Landcare provides a foundation on which to base the further development and growth of the Landcare approach.

The Framework also serves as a guide to stakeholders and prospective partners, including industry, corporations, governments at all levels and regional and catchment organisations, as to how they can engage with landcarers in addressing sustainability issues of common concern.

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.