It’s 2020 Landcare Week 3-9 August! Join the WA Landcare Network in celebrating the thousands of landcare groups, landcare professionals and volunteers across WA who contribute to protecting and enhancing the WA natural environment every day.
WA Landcare Network Chair, Mick Davis urges everyone to share some of the amazing things landcarers do during Landcare Week 2020 and to take up opportunities to connect to nature by getting involved in local land and coastcare activities.Mr Davis explained, ‘The WA landcare Network had put out a call to landcarers across the State to send in their landcare stories so that they could be showcased during Landcare Week’.
‘We are celebrating the school kids planting native seedlings on their school grounds, the volunteer friend group weeding at a nearby reserve, the local naturalist group getting active with a fauna survey and the great work local farmers are doing on their properties. There is so much happening across the State and and we want to celebrate the benefits it brings to WA communities,’ he said.
‘2020 has been a hard year for many, with drought, bushfires and a global pandemic, we have experienced great threats to our health and safety, said Mr Davis. ‘These threats have brought home the significance of a healthy environment, one in which we can all live, work and thrive.’
‘Landcare activities are critical to maintaining a healthy place for us all to live. More and more we are realising the impact a healthy environment has on human health and getting involved in landcare can improve mental health and connection to place, he said.
Mr Davis said, ‘WALN is pleased to see green jobs and environmental protection as one of the State’s recovery priorities in the recently announced State Government Recovery Plan for WA’.
‘WALN is ready to work with government as part of the recovery process, and over 700 community-based coast and landcare groups spread across WA are poised ready to help,’ he said.
The WA Landcare Network will be publishing local landcare stories through its network newsletters and Facebook Page throughout Landcare Week from 3-9 August. Find out more at www.landcarewa.org.au.
A BIG THUMBS up to everyone who has sent in their landcare stories to our Landcare Week Celebration. What an amazing array of landcare activities happening across WA. Keep up the good work and look out for your story featured on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Landcarewa/
Photo courtesy of Susannah Brook Catchment Group – One of the many landcare groups working to protect the WA natural environment – Susannah Brook Catchment Group from Gidgegannup planting endemic plants in an area along the Susannah Brook to restore a wildlife corridor.
Check out the amazing things other landcarers are doing in our Landcare Week Celebration Newsletter Edition