Tangaroa Blue Foundation

Who hasn’t picked up litter at the beach? Everyone is keen to keep our beaches clean right, but did you know an amazing not for profit organisation is coordinating, not only a huge effort to remove marine debris from our beaches, but also working to stop the flow of litter at its source? The passionate crew at Tangaroa Blue Foundation, an Australia-wide not for profit are working hard to protect and preserve the marine and coastal environment by reducing marine debris, one of the biggest environmental issues facing our planet. READ MORE

Geographe Community Landcare Nursery

Geographe Community Landcare Nursery is celebrating their reopening following a period of COVID closure with an expanded and inspiring new vision. The community-based nursery, based in Busselton is determined to be the first choice provider of native plants and information for landcare projects and the community in the South West Capes region of WA. Nursery Coordinator, Rod Cary said, ‘We are reopening with a renewed drive to produce and supply quality native plants to support the landcare sector and residents in our region.’  READ MORE

Dumbleyung Landcare Inc.

Friends of Yongka Birl & Friends of Susannah Lakes - Restoring and caring for nature in the Perth Hills

Talking Partnerships with Carbon Positive

Southern Forests Community Landcare

Undalup Wadandi Rangers Program

The Undalup Wadandi Rangers Program employs local Aboriginal Peoples, while creating capacity for Wadandi Peoples to apply right way Caring for Country traditional practice. The Program is overseen by Wadandi Elders and a Wadandi Custodian and not only creates capacity for Aboriginal Peoples to care for country but also creates employment opportunities for Aboriginal People and creates community, assisting with positive mental health outcomes for those working in the program. The program has recently seen seven rangers complete their Certificate II in Conservation and Land Management.

Katanning Landcare

Katanning Landcare are innovative, passionate, hard-working community landcare leaders finding local solutions to everything from wind-erosion, salinity and wetland degradation to funding uncertainty. Katanning Landcare was founded in 1990 and has continuously provided landcare leadership to the agricultural district of Katanning for over 3 decades. Katanning Landcare has evolved with the needs of the environment and community. Salinity, wetland restoration, threatened species recovery, weeds and pests, revegetation, waste reduction and carbon farming are just some of the issues Katanning Landcare are involved in addressing.

Margaret Moir

Margaret Moir became a life member of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region following 20 years of voluntary work. She is a true landcarer giving her time freely and tirelessly. Marg was key to building the reputation of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region, developing the first river restoration workshops and best practice property management. She Coordinated the Cape to Cape Landcare Companion and a Shire wide community fox baiting drive, partnering with the Shire. She organised numerous workshops, talks, garden visits, and fund raising activities. Weeds are Marg’s bugbear. Her knowledge and experience is second to none.

Forest Crescent Primary School

Forest Crescent Primary School students work together to help coastal and rural communities to rehabilitate ecosystems in consultation with experts, landowners and Noongar people. Recycling projects, being water wise, worm-farming, energy saving and the use of solar power were the school’s initial goals. Programs expanded to building an Indigenous 6 seasons garden, a frog bog, a vegetable garden and a range of clean-up projects. Since 2018, the school has been involved in multiple tree planting programs, planting 11600 native seedlings to combat over clearing, rehabilitate a wetland ecosystem and to combat salinity.

Busselton Jetty Inc.

Busselton Jetty Inc. has taken on the lofty goal to educate and inspire as many people as it can to be stewards for our wondrous marine environment. A small group of passionate community members joined together to save the Busselton Jetty in 1978 after Cyclone Alby destroyed a large portion. Busselton Jetty Inc.’s purpose is Saving the Jetty for future generations, with an environmental vision to be recognised as leaders of marine conservation in a world-class environment. A key strategy used by the group is education, inspiring people to become marine environment stewards through positively changing their everyday actions and conversations.

Jayson Sekhon

Jayson is a fantastic Community Program Officer, inspiring volunteers to create a better environment for our local wildlife; it’s a privilege to be his colleague. Jayson has been with SERCUL as a community landcare officer since February 2020, working with various school groups, corporate groups, and community groups, the likes of Friends of Bull Creek, Friends of Booragoon Lake and Blue Gum and many more.He is in charge of coordinating multiple community-focus environmental rehabilitation projects throughout the conservation space of the City of Melville, the City of Canning and the in between crown lands managed by DBCA and WAPC.

Sylvia Leighton and Peter McKenzie

Sylvia Leighton and Peter McKenzie are dedicated to the balance between farming and conservation and sharing discoveries. Wilyun Pools Farm has been transformed, testament to their vision. Silvia and Peter farm Wilyun Pools Farm, a 1214ha property located in Wellstead District, 100 km’s north east of the City of Albany on the south coast. The property motto is Seeking Balance”. Regenerative farming has given them a network of fellow landholders with similar philosophies and similar language. They have adopted the three pillars of Landcare and Regenerative Agriculture – healthy environment, healthy society, healthy economy.

Moore Catchment Council and Yued Community Moora

The Moore Catchment Council and Yued community are working together to help improve the health of the Moore catchment and improve local Aboriginal wellbeing. This partnership has affected and provided positive outcomes for local Shires, including on ground works carried out such as revegetation, rubbish removal, weed removal and education, for local schools, including learning opportunities such as traditional language learning, bush foods exploring, bush walks and stories, and for tourism, including new signage with local Yued content, bush walks, talks and workshops on bush tucker and culture.

Susannah Brook Catchment Group

Susannah Brook Catchment Group from Gidgegannup planting endemic plants in an area along the Susannah Brook to restore a wildlife corridor. The plantings are the 2nd year of a 3 year project supported by the State NRM Program and the City of Swan.

Friends of Samson Park

Friends of Samson Park aim to bring together the community to protect, enhance, celebrate and enjoy Samson Park (Bush Forever Site 59). The group holds regular weekly weeding groups and has set up quadrat lines to compare the differences between hand weeding and chemical control.

FAWNA Inc.

FAWNA Inc from Busselton is committed to the recovery of the critically endangered Western Ringtail Possums.
Volunteers are involved in survey, monitoring, hand-raising orphans and working with the University of WA to monitor possums released to the wild.

Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group

Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group coordinated 160 students and staff from St Mary’s Anglican Girls School for a volunteer planting to plant 18,500 seedlings in 4 hours in the Ellen Brook catchment, north of Perth.

Gillamii Centre

Gillamii Centre recently coordinated this planting of 80,000 seedlings on a farm in Cranbrook in the south coast region, for a biodiverse carbon planting project with ecological restoration consultants Threshold Environmental Services.

Lower Blackwood Landcare

Lower Blackwood Landcare form the Lower South West is conducting Talkin’ After Hours, including face to face workshops, webinars or sound bites, to fill the information gap on sustainable agriculture for our catchment landholders.

Leschenault Catchment Council

Leschenault Catchment Council have been working with the local community and the aboriginal enterprise Indigenous Workabout crew on restoring the Brunswick River Foreshore through funding from the Lester Group.

Friends of Sorrento Beach and Marmion Foreshore

Friends of Sorrento Beach and Marmion Foreshore have been running a coast care project  for 20 years. They have planted 29,800 seedlings with 80% survival rate;  removed 30 weed species and collected litter from the dunes and beach.

Oyster Harbour Catchment Group

Oyster Harbour Catchment Group’s vision is prosperous, vibrant rural communities for present and future generations within the Oyster Harbour Catchment. The Group coordinates and facilitates NRM with a wide range of stakeholders.

Friends of Upper Lesmurdie Falls Inc

The Friends of Upper Lesmurdie Falls Inc. planted 14,000 tubestock above Lesmurdie National Park with the help of over 100 amazing community members. A year on, the planting is starting to provide habitat for wildlife and flowers for visitors to enjoy.

Nature Conservation Margaret River Region

Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s 2020 catchment tours for Year 6 local primary schools students are investigating how regenerative farms can be part of environmental solutions & help keep the Margaret River healthy.

Friends of Paganoni Swamp

The Friends of Paganoni Swamp volunteers have been hard at work planting Gahnia triffida at Paganoni Swamp Reserve, Karnup during June 2020.
The planting aims to improve ecological function in the Reserve’s wetland.

North Swan LCDC

North Swan LCDC (Bullsbrook Landcare Friends Groups) have had a rewarding planting season planting 14,000 native seedlings plus another 30,000 with Chittering Landcare, TRONOX and 6000 with the help of DBCA.

Wunambaal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation

Wunambal Gaambera country covers some 2.5 million hectares of key cultural and ecological land within the Kimberley region. The Wunambal Gaambera people made a Healthy Country Plan – a world first – to help them keep their country and culture healthy and to build the capacity and wealth of their families to live on their country into the future. The planning process and associated tools are now used across the world to drive local community conservation and social planning. Via their Healthy Country Plan and the Uunguu Ranger Program the group has deep and effective partnerships to champion Indigenous Protected Area management.

Dan Friesen

Dan Friesen has been the Community and Grants Manager at the South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare (SERCUL) since 2013. Dan has worked his way up to now manage the Community and Grants program at SERCUL where he applies for and manages the majority of SERCUL’s grants and auspicing of grants for unincorporated groups. He also supports many community groups in the South metropolitan region through the grant funding he has secured. Dan’s commitment to the community groups goes far beyond what his job at SERCUL entails. He regularly works both days on the weekend to help community groups run planting and weeding events.

Friends of Upper Lesmurdie Falls Inc.

The Friends of Upper Lesmurdie Falls Inc. is a community run volunteer group made up of passionate community members who care about the area directly above the Lesmurdie Falls National Park in the Perth Hills. The group’s membership consists of local residents, volunteers from the wider Kalamunda District as well as other people from all over Perth who care about the project site or have a general interest in the environment. The group has a strong working relationship with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, as the area they work in is within Mundy Regional Park.

Year 5 Environmental Officers, Churchlands Primary School

Churchlands Primary School has always been passionate and committed to educating students on sustainability. The School has set up opportunities for students to hold environmental leadership roles in the school so that they can share knowledge and be the leaders in hands-on activities both in the community and around the school. For the past 12 years the student environmental officers have been at the forefront of the school’s sustainability program. This voluntary group of 22, Year 5 students are ardent about improving our planet, giving  up their time to initiate, plan and drive school programs to improve sustainability.

Roebuck Bay Working Group

Working with Yawuru people and a small group of stakeholders, Roebuck Bay Working Group Inc. formed in 2005 to protect, restore and maintain the Roebuck Bay catchment into the future. The community-based not for profit has grown significantly with a broad stakeholder base, an army of volunteers and an outstanding reputation for collaborative respectful projects to reduce threats to Roebuck Bay’s high natural, cultural and heritage values. The collaborative Keep Our Bay Clean campaign (2005-19), has been effective in targeting the serious threat of surface and groundwater nutrient enriched pollution and Lyngbya majuscula blooms in Roebuck Bay.

Doug Pow, Marron Brook Farm

Doug Pow purchased Marron Brook Farm in 2009, and has implemented biochar trials in livestock supplementary feeding and amending tree crop
(avocado) rhizosphere. Doug could be described as a minimalist farmer utilising his livestock and dung beetles, new species of which he actively sourced, to remediate pastures. Doug has an enormous depth of knowledge across a wide range of subjects and can synthesise information to apply in unique situations. This lateral thinking has challenged conventional wisdom and to say he is having a profound influence on farming practices globally is not overstating the effects of his innovative approaches.

Margaret River Organic Farmer

Pursuing passions for regenerative agriculture and local food, Lawson Armstrong and Laura Bailey established Margaret River Organic Farmer in 2015. Their 120 acre farm, in conversion to organic certification, produces open-range pastured eggs, grass-fed-and-finished beef and vegetables for sale within a foodshed 50 kms from the farm. The farm goals are restoration and resilience of ecological systems with farming practices nourishing soils, water systems, and biodiversity, whilst their produce nourishes nearby communities with nutrient-rich, low-food-mile produce. Margaret River Organic Farmer shares their learnings and experiences via workshops and farm tours.

Care for Hedland Environmental Association Inc

Hedland Community Volunteer Turtle Monitoring Program is a partnership that largely came together in 2006 and involves Care for Hedland Environmental Association Inc, the Town of Port Hedland, Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions and BHP. The successful twelve year partnership, has raised awareness about Flatback turtles,  involved hundreds of volunteers in their protection and enabled thousands of people to see them nest and hatchlings emerge, and increased understanding of the threats to the species not only amongst the local Hedland community, industry/business and tourists but also in the wider WA community.

Basil Schur

Basil Schur is an inspirational Landcare leader and educator, working tirelessly to conserve landscapes and wetlands for their unique biodiversity values and cultural connections. Basil was born and raised on a farm in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, moved to Perth WA in 1981 and directly became active in community-based Landcare initiatives. In 1988 Basil moved to Denmark, WA and began pioneering wetland and catchment management in the region, working through the Denmark Environment Centre and then with Green Skills. Basil has given three decades of commitment to landcare in eco-restoration, wetland management, community education, citizen science and on-farm conservation work.

Boojerabba Flats Revegetation Project

An inspiring story about Carnamah farmers Peter and Paulina Wittwer and their successful Boojerabba Flats revegetation project. An amazing achievement revegetating over 50 hectares of degraded land with over 50,000 mixed native seedlings. READ MORE
Photo courtesy of Yarra Yarra Catchment Management Group

Brentwood Living Stream

Congratulations to the landcare collaboration that has brought the Brentwood Living Stream to life.  The City of Melville, Water Corporation, Main Roads Western Australia, River Guardians, SERCUL, the local Whadjuk Noongar community and volunteers have worked together to transform a degraded old stormwater pipe and ditch into a living stream.
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Leschenault Catchment Indigenous Collaboration

Fantastic work Leschenault Catchment Council for signing a deal with Noongar group ‘Indigneous Workabout’ for collaboration on local landcare activities and initiatives. The organisations will work together on conservation projects, seed collection, revegetation, monitoring, weed control and other landcare work.
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Katanning Landcare bought a Nursery

Well done Katanning Landcare for taking on the challenge of running the local nursery. Just before Christmas 2017 the landcare group took over operations of the Blyth Tree Farm and with a flurry of learning and planting planted around 200,000 seedlings for the 2018 planting season. A fantastic landcare resource for the landcare groups in the Katanning area. READ MORE

Blackwood Basin Group takes on Perup: Nature's Guesthouse

In the interests of finding an income stream to support its landcare efforts, Blackwood Basin Group (BBG) has taken on the brave challenge of running Perup: Nature’s Guesthouse in the south west. Surrounded by the 56,000 hectare Tone-Perup Nature Reserve.
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Carbon Neutral uses landowner incentive model to restore land

Carbon Neutral Charitable Fund is currently working with a landowner in Bencubbin to restore 25 ha of an agricultural property using a landowner incentive model. Restoration of the property has involved planting with over 22 species of native trees and shrubs, including sandalwood and acacia.
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300 volunteers attend SERCUL's National Tree Day planting

SERCUL was out planting trees with a phenomenal 300 volunteers on National Tree Day on 29 July 2018. The winter weather was not perfect but the family members all pitched in and braved the muddy conditions to get 1000 native plants into the ground, after a moving ceremony which remembered their loved ones. READ MORE

‘Adopt a Spot’ connects young people to nature

Nature Conservation Margaret River Region is currently delivering a second year of its ‘Adopt a Spot’ Program for all Year 4 students across the 8 primary schools in the Shire of Augusta Margaret River.  Funded by the State NRM Program ‘Adopt a Spot’ aims to establish long term links between schools and local bushland, foreshore and coastal areas.

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Biochar application trial helps our Manjimup grower

A multi-year trial in collaboration with Warren Catchments Council enabled Manjimup producer, Doug Pow, to achieve higher fruiting rates incorporating biochar into the rhizosphere of avocados. A testing programme and extension support shared his innovation across sectors of the sustainable agriculture industry. READ MORE