For many, the summer months mean holidays and kicking back with your feet up.  For Landcarers, getting stuck into a good working bee is the perfect relaxation.  

14 Jan 2021. Words by Andrew Doube. Dung beetles on our farms provide huge benefits for people and the environment.  Landcare Tasmania is supporting a new project which is working to introduce new dung beetle species into Tasmania.   

Wishing Landcarers a happy holidays, looking back at 2020, and membership renewal info. 

On Monday 11 January, Landcare Tasmania's Deputy CEO Peter Stronach met with the Federal Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley, along with representatives from Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. 

Kingborough Chronicle have reported on the excellent weeding work of Tramway Hill Landcare Group in November.

How to plant a shelterbelt | Trees planted in 2020 | Understanding Glyphosate | Members Register for Training + more

Come on a journey to Huon Island with this beautiful film of the 2020 Friends of Huon Island tree planting. This years planting was supported by Fifteen Trees and the Tasmanian Landcare Fund (TLF) as well as the Huon Valley Council, Kingborough...

The Invasive Species Council have published a report written by Ecologist Tim Low on the hazards and risks of glyphosate use for weed control. 

Over 5,000 trees have been planted in 2020 with thanks to Fifteen Trees, Landcare Tasmania's Tasmaian Landcare Fund, and our industrious members.

How do you plant a shelterbelt that will benefit your stock and pasture within four years of planting? How do you prepare a planting site so seedlings will survive and thrive, rather than  waste time and money?