Members plant 4,000 trees across the state
In 2025, 18 projects from across the State received funding, putting more than 4,000 native plants in the ground during the planting season!
Landcare Tasmania’s TLF Plant Grant is a small grant round to supplement ongoing member-led projects that include native revegetation. This grant opportunity is available thanks to generous donations to the Tasmanian Landcare Fund.
These projects are more than just planting trees; they are working towards larger goals such as restoring degraded land, enhancing remnant native vegetation, improving waterway health and soil quality, and creating habitat corridors.
We hope to offer this grant opportunity annually, as donations allow.
If you are interested in future Plant Grant opportunities, please submit your project ideas to Landcare Tasmania's Project Bank, and be sure to outline that it is a planting or revegetation project.
Member Stories
Ellendale Landcare
In late May 2025, all ten members of the Ellendale Landcare Group came together to plant 300 native seedlings along a 300-metre stretch of the Jones River’s north bank. Over two days, the team prepared the site by treating invasive species such as crack willow, hawthorn and blackberry, and installed jute weed matting, guards and frost cloth to protect young eucalypts and wattles. This revegetation work aims to stabilise riverbanks, improve water quality and safeguard habitat for local wildlife including platypus, bandicoot, quoll and freshwater crayfish. Despite severe frosts, losses have been minimal thanks to careful planning around past flood levels.
Friends of Dempster Creek
This project began as the rehabilitation of a watercourse in an area known to support Giant Freshwater Crayfish. An extensive spray program has largely removed a severe blackberry invasion, allowing creek banks to be progressively replanted. The most recent planting was funded through Landcare Tasmania's Plant Grant and was carried out by a team working under the supervision of the Aboriginal Land Council's Chief Ranger, David Lowery. Ongoing work will focus on managing foxglove, with canopy restoration expected to improve long-term control. After many years of caring for this special place, the owners have now gifted the property to the Aboriginal Land Council through the Giving it Back program.
