Examples of Landcare Activities

Restoring degraded areas or natural values

  • Address erosion, salinity, soil health
  • Biodiverse, locally native habitat plantings, including shelterbelts, farm dams, former paddocks & plantations, urban & peri-urban areas
  • Caring for Country: aboriginal-led land management
  • Climate change adaptation / mitigation
  • Native seed collection & propagation
  • Reinstate habitat connectivity
  • Fencing waterways, stock exclusion, off-stream watering
  • Sustainable & regenerative agriculture
  • Recovery actions for threatened flora/fauna
  • Waste removal (clean-ups)
  • Wildlife rescue, care, and conservation programs

Removing threats

  • Control weeds
  • Control pest animals or diseases
  • Prevent waste or resource inefficiencies

Recording observations / data collection

  • Citizen science programs, e.g. bioblitz, waterwatch
  • Surveys, mapping, monitoring
 

Protecting & enhancing areas of high natural value

  • Contribute to fire management in the landscape
  • Create artificial habitats
  • Fencing native vegetation - to reduce browsing pressure, protect wildlife
  • Natural revegetation (no planting)
  • Establishing site or species protections
  • Registering carbon & biodiversity projects

Awareness-raising and learning

  • Community awareness campaigns, signage
  • Info sessions, workshops, field days, excursions
  • Aboriginal-led cultural awareness and two-way knowledge sharing
  • Landcare programs at schools & other education facilities

Establishing community resources (community capacity building)

  • Community farms, market gardens, bush tucker gardens, school kitchen gardens
  • Community native nurseries & seed banks
  • Tracks and trails

 

...and anything else that involves community members caring for the land, sky, and waters of Lutruwita/Tasmania!