Since 1994, Landcare Tasmania has been helping local communities care for our land and coasts, farms and towns, waterways and wildlife.

Landcare Tasmania is the peak body that works to represent, support, strengthen and grow Tasmania’s community Landcare. This community works on the ground to improve the health of our natural and working environments and is represented by people from the whole state in over 300 member groups with over 5,000 volunteers, supported by our Individual and Associate members, partners, and donors.

At Landcare Tas we often find people are surprised or unclear about who we are and how we work. Let us explain.

Some of the common confusions are that we are a government agency or part of Landcare Australia or other organisations like NRM regions - we are none of these. We are an independent, non-profit incorporated association that exists to represent, support, strengthen and grow community Landcare in Tasmania. For us it's pretty much all about the members, and ultimately it is their organisation.

Landcare Tas members are 'care' groups, individuals and associate members. We provide a wide range of services to all members, but only group members have voting rights through the Annual General Meeting.

An important feature of Landcare Tas is that our members operate independently. How they organise themselves and what they choose to work on is largely determined by them. We assist by keeping track of members interests and needs, and organising our advocacy work and services to support this. It's mostly bottom up but Landcare Tas also plays an important role in developing new approaches to important issues, for example through community awareness programs, citizen science and training, and ensuring our groups and other members have:

• Confidence to take ownership of issues that are important in their communities;
• Competence to play a leading role in the design and delivery of solution; and
• Commitment to work together in maintaining outcomes into the future.

Community Landcare is all about people working together to address their environment, land management and sustainability challenges, and sharing this with others and through their involvement with Landcare Tas. That's why our organisational vision is focused on people first; our vision is that all communities are empowered and enabled to care for the land and water of lutruwita/Tasmania. Landcare issues are often long term and recurring, so we need committed and engaged local communities to address them.