Our Mission
• Empowering individuals and communities.
• Sustainable management of natural and productive landscapes.
• Building resilient ecosystems and communities.
Our Vision
All Australians actively caring for the land and water that sustains us.
Our Team
We have a team of 30 people based at head office in Sydney and across regional Australia supported by a skills-based volunteer board.
About Us
Landcare Australia is an independent, national not-for-profit organisation established in 1989. For over 35 years, Landcare Australia has worked at the forefront of community and corporate engagement in environmental conservation and sustainable land management with activities that protect and conserve Australia’s land, water, soils, plants, animals and ecosystems.
Our work supports individuals, groups and organisations involved in landcare with funding, on-ground projects, capacity-building, information sharing, networking, and promotion of landcare achievements. Together with the landcare community, our efforts improve biodiversity, restore landscapes, build resilience in Australia’s food and farming systems, and create stronger communities. With the impact of a changing climate, biodiversity loss and natural disasters, our work has never been more important.
We are focused on supporting the landcare community to continue their important work, fostering the next generation of young adults and school children, increasing engagement with First Nations people and communities, and integrating First Nations
perspectives into our projects.
What We Do
Landcare Australia is a leader in the environmental sector with expertise in working with multiple stakeholders to provide funding and in-kind support for the thousands of landcare groups and projects across Australia. Our activities include managing grants programs, developing education resources and case studies, the promotion of landcare projects across our vast communications network, and managing complex large scale ecological restoration projects.
Our national campaigns are developed in partnership with stakeholders to recognise and celebrate landcare achievements and encourage volunteer participation in landcare activities.
At the heart of what we do, Landcare Australia’s day-to-day business is working to support the national landcare community that include over 6,000 landcare and other community-led environmental groups, and over 140,000 volunteers who are working together to restore, enhance and protect the natural environment in their local community.
If you would like more information about Landcare Australia, please contact us via email at [email protected].
What is Landcare
Landcare enables people to actively care for the natural environment in their community through environmental conservation and sustainable land management activities.
Origins of Landcare
Landcare evolved in Victoria to become a national movement in 1989 when championed by the late former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke AC.
Annual Report & Strategic Plan
Landcare Australia’s vision is for ‘All Australians actively caring for the land and water that sustains us’ will be supported by our Organisational Strategic Plan that aims continue our work to create innovative programs, resources and campaigns, develop First Nations partnerships, create education and advocacy, and raise funding and in-kind support for the landcare community. You can read more about the work we do in our Annual Report and in our Organisational Strategic Plan.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)
Landcare Australia’s work with our partners and stakeholders contributes towards 11 of the UN SDGs. Together with the landcare community, our contribution is a result of our everyday work, sustainable agriculture projects that encourage resilience in food and farming systems, managing major ecological restoration projects, marine debris cleanup projects, revegetation and weed control, and education workshops and programs for environmental stewardship. Through our reporting process, we gather information from projects delivered on-ground that directly responds to the SDGs and we collate this information annually.
Our Impact
Landcare Australia manages multiple programs, projects and national campaigns in partnership with a diverse range of stakeholders to support the landcare movement. Our activities contribute to 11 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Our People
Our team work hard to support the landcare community with their important work to restore, enhance and protect Australia’s natural environment. We are alwayslooking for new ways to attract funding and participation in landcare
Careers
Our people are important to us and we provide meaningful career opportunities for a variety of roles that are advertised across our communications channels.