WA Landcare News

Links to our current and past newsletters.

WA Landcare News – November 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – October 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – September 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – August 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – July 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – June 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – May 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – April 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – March 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – February 2024

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – December 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – November 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – October 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – September 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – August 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – July 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – June 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – May 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – April 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – March 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – February 2023

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – December 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – November 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – October 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – September 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – Aug 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – July 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – June 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – May 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – April 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – March 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Landcare News – February 2022

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

December 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Best wishes for the Festive Season from WALN
  • That’s a Wrap 2021 – Landcare Highlights

November 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Celebrating Landcare Champions 2021 WA Landcare Awards
  • 2021 WALN Annual Network Gathering Highlights
  • WALN 2022 Committee elected at AGM
  • 2021 WALN Annual Report now available
  • Thank you to Keith Bradby for National Landcare Role
  • Lotterywest Grants Information Sessions
  • COP26: What does it mean for Australian farmers?
  • Coastal News Hot off the Press
  • Open for Applications — Soil Science Challenge
  • And More

October 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Landcare Funding Opportunities
  • 2021 WALN Survey  Landcare Volunteers and Volunteer Hours
  • Landcare Checks In – 29 November 2021 Investigating the impacts of off-road vehicle activity on WA’s coastline
  • Indigenous good news stories from the south coast
  • Kimberley Weeds Network Online Mini-Forum
  • Call for Abstracts for the 2022 National Landcare Conference
  • Landcare Australia Webinars
  • Input to national waste program via Agrifutures
  • And More

September 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • You are invited ! Landcare Awards and Annual Gathering
  • Have your say on the National Landcare Program
  • Good news for our native forests
  • WA Landcare Network Survey – What you told us
  • ‘Boodjarra Gabba Koorling’ ‘Water in a Drying Climate’
  • ‘Landcare Checks In’ Draft Native Vegetation Policy
  • WALN helps out at The Last Stand
  • Grants to preserve and protect Aboriginal Heritage Sites
  • Smart Farms Small Grants: Soil Extension Activities
  • And More

August 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • 2021 WA Landcare Award Nominations extended until 12 September
  • WA Winners in the 2021 National Landcare Awards
  • WA Landcare Survey – Prize Winners Announced More survey responses wanted
  • WALN out and about at the Dowerin Field Days
  • Latest WA Coastal News Hot of the Press
  • ‘Boodjarra Gabba Koorling’ ‘Water in a Drying Climate’ Climate Resilience Forum
  • Release of Draft Native Vegetation Policy for WA
  • ‘Landcare Checks In’ Blue Carbon Incentives in WA
  • Lotterywest keen to fund landcare projects
  • And More

July 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • 2021 National Landcare Awards  – WA Celebration Thursday 5 August 3.00 – 7.00 pm
  • National Landcare Conference and Awards FREE online
  • WALN Survey -Thank you – Winners Announced Soon
  • 2021 WA Landcare Awards Nominations open 15 June – 15 Aug
  • Tell us your Landcare Story for Landcare Week
  • Register your planting for National Tree Day
  • Be quick – Take the SW Forest Suevey
  • Cockburn Wetlands Centre Funding Winfall 
  • ‘Landcare Checks In’ Ecosystem and Human Health
  • Carbon Farming and Land Restoration Program
  • Coastal observations and monitoring Take the survey
  • Climate Science Initiative  Consultation Report 
  • And More

June 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • 2021 WA Landcare Network Survey Deadline Extended
  • 2021 WA Landcare Awards Nominations open 15 June – 15 Aug
  • The wellbeing benefits of participating in Landcare
  • Community Survey on the use of SW Forests 
  • Next ‘Landcare Checks In’ Are we winning with foxes?
  • Signing of the Darwin Agreement 
  • Sustainable Oceans and Coasts National Strategy
  • 2020 Bob Hawke  Landcare Award Finalists Announced
  • Future Drought Fund – Drought Resilience Grants
  • Conservation Council of WA Citizen Science Program 
  • Landscape Rehydration Field Day 13 July Toodyay
  • Future Drought Fund’s Science to Practice Forum 
  • National Malleefowl & WA Threatened Species Forum  6-10 Sept
  • And More

May 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • 2021 WA Landcare Network Survey Two cash prizes of $500!
  • WA Landcare Awards Opening 15 June
  • Coastal Officer (Contract) Position Available 
  • Facilitator Training Course for Landcare
  • New Carbon Footprint Calculator Launched 
  • Next ‘Landcare Checks In’ Citizen Science and Wildlife Licensing 
  • Work of AgZero showcased in the Guardian
  • Change to Eligibility Criteria – ERRF Grants
  • National Feral Pig Action Plan – Info Hub
  • Livestock focused Carbon Forum in the SW
  • And More

April 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • WA Landcare Awards Opening Soon
  • Next ‘Landcare Checks In’ Native Grasses in the Rangelands 
  • Understanding Natural Capital Accounting 
  • Marine conservationist’s welcome $100m for ocean protection
  • Cockies return to Baigup Wetlands 
  • Carbon Positive Australia’s CarbonCare Project
  • Australia’s Environment 2020 Report Released
  • New Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub
  • And More

March 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Regional Carbon Forum was a hit!
  • New Salinity Management Case Study Series
  • Next ‘Landcare Checks In’ 12 April Feral pigs
  • Hands Healing the Land  Boodja – Moort – Kaartdijin Conference
  • See you at the Perth Garden Festival 
  • National Parliamentary Friends of Landcare
  • And More

February 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • 2021 WA Landcare Insurance Information Available
  • What’s WALN been up to in February?
  • Growing Community Landcare In WA Position Statement 
  • Have you seen the Carbon Industry Overview?
  • WA Coastal News Hot off the Press
  • Next ‘Landcare Checks In’ 15 March WA Soil Health Strategy 
  • And More

January 2021 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • What’s WALN been up to in January?
  • ‘Landcare Checks In’ returns for 2021 on 8 Feb
  • Coastwest and CMPAP Grant Applications Now Open 
  • Community Rivercare Grants Announced
  • Alert! Draft National Soil Strategy  Consultation Closes 27 Jan 
  • And More

December 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • WA Landcare Network New Initiatives
  • Vale General Jeffery  Australia’s first National Soils Advocate
  • Timely New National Soil Health Award
  • National Landcare Network Annual Report Now Available 
  • Congratulation to successful 2020 State NRM Community Stewardship Grants

November 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • WALN 2019-20 Annual Report Now Available 
  • Please welcome the new WALN Team 
  • Celebrating Landcare Champions
  • New Landcare Farming Program
  • What’s AG Zero 2030 all about?

October 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • WALN 2021 Committee of Management Call for Nominations
  • WA Landcare Network AGM and Network Gathering 
  • New website for the National Landcare Network 
  • New focus for Marine and Coast Network
  • What does the EPBC Amendment Bill 2020 really mean for our wildlife

September 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • EPBC Amendment Bill 2020
  • Support growing for an environmental job stimulus package
  • New Soil Commissioner for Western Australia
  • Follow up report from the Auditor General on weeds and pests
  • Aboriginal Collaboration Case Studies Keep on coming!

August 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • What a Landcare Week Celebration!
  • Let’s talk Marine and Coastal Networking 
  • WALN’s comments on the State Soil Health 
  • WALN offers help with Green Jobs Plan 
  • Market research on carbon farming in WA

June 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • From Our Chair Landcare representation at the National Level
  • What’s next for Land for Wildlife  
  • New Aboriginal Collaboration Case Studies
  • COVID 19 Road to Recovery

May 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • WALN Core Business Support Funding
  • WA Coast and Landcarers encouraged to complete the Landcare Wellbeing Survey
  • Conservation Stimulus Package – You can help! 
  • WA Landcare Case Studies

April 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Update on COVID-19 and Landcare  
  • ‘Landcare Checks In’  Online chat about Landcare
  • 2020 State NRM Community Stewardship Grants 
  • WALN joins new WA Feral Cat Working Group 

March 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • A Helping Hand for COVID-19
  • Mick Davis takes the reigns
  • WALN 2018-19 Annual Report now available
  • A wonderful gathering of landcarers

February 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • WALN Submission on the Native Vegetation in WA – Issues Paper
  • Celebrating National Regenerative Agriculture Day 
  • Call for Royalties for Regions to be directed to the environment
  • New Look Junior Landcare Website

January 2020 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Recent bushfire devastation
  • WALN farewells Blair Darvill
  • Wrap up from 2019 Conference
  • Save the Date for AGM and Network Gathering

October 2019 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Inspiration from Community at the 2019 WA State NRM and Coastal Conference
  • Celebrating landcarers at the 2019 WA Landcare Awards

  • Coastcare leaders recognised at the WA Coastal Awards for Excellence

  • Showcasing our 2019 WA Landcare Award Recipients

June 2019 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • Indigenous knowledge key to reducing the impact of cane toads in the Kimberley

  • South Coast Festival of Birds & Biodiversity 2019

  • Cactus is cactus in the Lyndon Catchment

March 2019 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories including:

  • 2018 Celebrating Landcare Success

  • A shout out for Katanning’s special species! Andrea Salmond, Katanning Landcare

December 2018 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories from:

  • Supported Landcare Action Works! Trialling biochar application in avocado production by Kathy Warren Catchments Council
  • Landcare Australia’s Rescue Story Telling

'Rise up Roots Down' - More from our Intrepid Landcarers

August 2018 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories from:

  • Blackwood Basin Group takes on Perup: Nature’s Guesthouse
  • Carbon Neutral uses landowner incentive model to restore land
  • 300 volunteers attend SERCUL’s National Tree Day planting 
  • ‘Adopt a Spot’ connects young people to nature
Brentwood Living Stream

May 2018 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories from:

  • Brentwood Living Stream
  • Collaboration between Leschenault Catchment Council and Noongar group ‘Indigneous Workabout’
  • Katanning Landcare bought a nursery
  • Collaborative group forms in the SW Wheatbelt
Batavia Coastcare Network

February 2018 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories from:

  • Boojerabba Flats revegetation project
National Landcare Network Board Members

November 2017 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.

WA Coast and Landcare Awards

May 2017 Update

Featuring WALN’s latest news and events and celebrating landcare success stories.