Case Studies
The Importance of Flying-Foxes
Education to help protect the threatened grey-headed flying-foxes.
Community Seed Banks: Saving Local Provenance Genetics
Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc is supporting community seed banks to collect, store, and share locally sourced seed for revegetation projects. This approach helps landholders and community groups restore native vegetation using seed adapted to local conditions, improving survival rates and strengthening long-term landscape resilience.
Saltmarsh Restoration in Narooma
Getting the community together to plant saltmarsh species along the Wagonga Inlet.
Bringing Life-Saving Skin Checks to Glen Innes
Coordinating community, sponsors and health providers to improve access to early skin cancer detection in a regional community.
Using CAT data to tell our story
CAT data can be utilised effectively to tell the story of Landcare at a local or regional scale
The power of a tiny bug: Bringing Landcare into preschools
Engaging preschoolers can help create nature-lovers for life, and provides a valuable connection to a new Landcare audience
Gloucester Multi Species Crop Trial
How Mid Coast 2 Tops Landcare supports local resilience from the ground up. Subsidising seed purchase for building soil, reducing inputs and improving livestock performance.
Water Stewardship Program
Empowering communities in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment to restore local water cycles, enhance water quality and improve catchment health through collaborative projects and innovative funding.
Private Land Conservation Matters (PLCM) – Murray Style
Recognising strengths in partnership
Farmers Creek Landcare
Bringing the Lithgow community together to restore healthy waterways
Growing a network
The Southern Tablelands Tree Start Growers Network, for those that love growing plants but have nowhere to plant them.
Returning to Work After Maternity Leave
A supportive and flexible return-to-work approach helped ease the transition from maternity leave back into the workplace. Through open communication, gradual reintegration, and ongoing flexibility, this experience highlights how organisations can successfully support working parents, particularly within industries that are predominantly part-time and female.
Rejuvenating local Landcare for future generations.
Back from the dead: the rejuvenation of Mogriguy Creek Landcare.
Excellent Excel Training
Harden Murrumburrah Landcare Group sponsored members of their Ladies on the Land group (and family members) to attend Microsoft Excel Training for the Farm Office, with funding from an Agrifutures Australia grant designed to increase access to technology for farmers in the region.
Building Community Capacity for Landscape-Scale Change
A coordinated, region-wide approach to strengthening landholder knowledge, leadership, and networks to enable long-term, community-led environmental outcomes across the Murrumbidgee.
Landcare & Fisheries; connecting young people to inspire stewardship along the Darling-Baaka
Western Landcare and NSW Fisheries delivered interactive workshops at a local school to build students’ understanding of river health, native fish, and habitat restoration. Through outdoor ecology‑themed games and hands‑on activities, students designed and modelled fish passageways and “fish hotels,” exploring how these structures support fish movement along the Darling–Baaka.
Wentworth Show: Best Trade Exhibit – Western Landcare Engagement and Education
At the 2025 Wentworth Show, Western Landcare presented an interactive exhibit promoting local environmental initiatives and community engagement. Featuring Junior Landcare activities and discussions on pest control, grazing management, and biodiversity, the display fostered environmental awareness across Western NSW and earned the award for Best Trade Exhibit.