Woolworths Junior Landcare Team Award
The Woolworths Junior Landcare Team Award recognises the work of a youth organisation or young Landcare team that contributes to raising awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Landcare amongst young people and implements Landcare practices on its own property or within the local community.
Lake Tuggeranong College ‘Sustainability Unit’, ACT Lake Tuggeranong College’s Sustainability Unit was established to educate students about the environment and encourage participation in environmentally sustainable projects. Set up by science teacher Nikey Mylordi, the unit gives students the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge about sustaining the environment for future generations to enjoy. One of the unit’s major community contributions has been the students’ involvement in collecting data for Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch, Platypus Watch, and the ACT and Region Frogwatch programs. Read more
Armidale High School Black Creek BushCare Group, NSW Armidale High School’s Black Creek BushCare Group was formed in 2016. The group has worked with Southern New England Landcare, collaborating on a project that involved conducting baseline biodiversity surveys to identify weed and native vegetation within the school grounds. The group has also undertaken many Bushcare activities, including working with the community to revegetate local native remnant vegetation site, ‘Manna Gums’. Through bush plantings on the school grounds, group members and fellow students have seen the benefits to the local fauna first-hand, auditing the school’s biodiversity before and after plantings. Read more
Berry Springs Primary School, NT Berry Springs Primary School has been working towards raising public awareness about the plight of the threatened atlas moth through their Moth Mob Project. Supported by Territory Wildlife Park, students have been creating innovative ways to create awareness of the atlas moth within the wider community, through an integrated curriculum of science, arts, and English. Learning about the moth’s history, biology, bio-geography, threats, and breeding requirements, the students have not only become experts in the field but also a powerful voice for this threatened species. Read more
Gilroy Community Sustainable Gardening Project, QLD Gilroy Santa Maria College’s Ranger Program began in 2013 as a way to replant and re-establish trees destroyed on the school grounds during Tropical Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Since then, the program has expanded to a range of other activities that aim to reclaim unusable areas of the school. Through ongoing engagement in these projects, students have gained a valuable insight into how they can play a role in managing and sustaining the natural resources of the school, as well as those of their own farming and home environments. Read more
Mount Compass Area School Swamp Ambassadors, SA Mount Compass Area School’s Swamp Ambassadors is a student-led environment program where students are the custodians of the school’s critically endangered Fleurieu swamp. As custodians, the students work to increase the awareness, and value, of Fleurieu swamps in the local community. In partnership with Fleurieu Swamps Recovery Program, the students have undertaken leadership and guide training to effectively share their knowledge and promote the importance of Fleurieu swamps in an engaging way. Prior to the program, the swamp was an unvalued land area that wasn’t used, understood or promoted. Read more
Youngtown Primary School, TAS Youngtown Primary School Landcare Group has been involved in a partnership with Tamar Natural Resource Management and the City of Launceston Council to revegetate their local reserve, Youngtown Regional Park. Over the last seven years, students have planted over 4000 local native trees, shrubs, and grasses in the reserve. This has increased habitat for wildlife, improved plant diversity, created a wildlife corridor between the reserve and others close by, and improved amenities for people using the reserve’s walking trail. Read more
Woodleigh School Penbank Campus, VIC Students from Penbank Campus have swapped the classroom for the creek, through their involvement with Balcombe Moorooduc Landcare Group’s Balcombe Creek Habitat Project. The project, led by local Landcare member Tony O’Connor, aims to foster strong connections between the students and their natural environment. A day at school can involve researching, designing, and creating habitats for Indigenous fauna along a section of the Balcombe Creek at Mt Martha. Habitats include frog bogs; lizard lounges; nest boxes for birds, possums and bats; logs for bush rats; and bug hotels. Read more
