13 November 2024 | This week is Australian Pollinator Week, acknowledging our important and unique insect pollinators. In this post, we look at the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) and its impact on native flora and fauna in lutruwita/Tasmania. 

26 September 2024 | The Minister for Housing and Planning has tabled the 2024 State of the Environment Report in both Houses of Parliament this month. Within this extensive report, Landcare Tasmania contributed a case study entitled: Empowering community action to support biodiversity (p. 156-158).

26 August 2024 | In response to growing community concerns about cat management on the South Arm Peninsula, Landcare Tasmania, with support from the State Government, recently hosted a crucial South Arm Cat Management Stakeholder Meeting at Lauderdale Hall.

15th March 2024 | 

Supporting Landcare in Tasmania has been a topic of the 2024 State election. We have advocated hard for all the Landcarers across Tasmania to be considered and recognised by political parties as an essential part of our community. For the first time in a long time, Landcare is part of State Environment and Agricultural policy pledges by major parties and prominent independents.

14th June 2023 | 

What’s in the Federal Budget for Agriculture, the Environment and on-ground action at a National level?  The National Landcare Network have provided a snapshot of what was announced by the Federal Government last month:

All eight peak State and Territory Landcare Organisations are supporting a national push for renewed funding to further enable grassroots Landcare.

15th Feb 2023 | 

To slow the introduction of sea spurge from Victoria and Tasmania to beaches in New South Wales, the NSW Government has co-invested with CSIRO in a project to release a biocontrol agent along the Victorian and Tasmanian coastlines. Here's an update of the program so far, including community participation through community-led releases. 

Listen to Todd Dudley, president of North East Bioregional Network and Landcare Tasmania Members Council representative, talk ecosystem restoration, flood mitigation, and volunteer land management challenges with ABC Radio.

16th September 2022 | 

A spotlight on Tasmania's cat management activities, including that of Landcare groups, was featured in ABC news this week. 

14 Sept 2022 | Last Friday the 9th September, we got together in Ulverstone with community members and feral cat experts to answer questions and discuss what we can do as a community to manage the state-wide feral cat problem.