Case Studies

Streamwatch into Schools

Lessons Learned from Engaging Schools into Statewatch in Sydney's Southeast

July 2024  

A Bird’s Eye View of Progress

Using drones in Greater Sydney Landcare

July 2024  

Embracing Micro-Volunteering

Encouraging participation and leveraging skills from community members who would not usually contemplate volunteering.

July 2024  

Winter VCN Meeting

Volunteers Coordinator Network (VCN) quarterly meeting

July 2024  

Restoring Cumberland Plain Woodland

‘Birding and Bush care’ groups help restore remnant patches of critically endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland.

July 2024  

Connecting Outdoors- Mitchell Park Youth Campout

Engaging young adults and introducing them to the Landcare Community.

June 2024  

Riparian Restoration - Glen Davis

Landcare Youth Campouts in the Capertee Valley

July 2023  

A pulse check for Greater Sydney Landcare

Landcare and Bushcare contributions to the environment and beyond

June 2023  

Greater Sydney Landcare Forum and Awards

The region celebrates

June 2023  

STREAMWATCH

A COMMUNITY LEGACY KEEPING AN EYE ON OUR WATERWAYS ACROSS SYDNEY

September 2022  

The Hawkesbury Nepean Waterkeepers Alliance

Creating A Community Voice for The River

September 2022  

Measuring Impact

Utilising Salesforce to better manage our people, events, communications and capture the positive impact of our work on the ground

July 2022  

Landcare Yarning on Country

Culturally safe space and conversations

June 2022  

The online pivot - productive partnerships moves to Facebook

Self-paced online learning coming close to a face-to-face workshop

June 2022  

Roaming Landcare

The potential of established outdoor clubs to provide support to Landcare/Bushcare groups in Greater Sydney

August 2021  

Cobbitty focussed Landcare

Celebrating World Environment Day with landholders on a Cumberland Plain Woodland site

August 2021  

Call to action for Bindook fire affected area

Partners come together to help landholders still grappling with recovery from the Black Summer

July 2021  

Award winning Landcare

Fire recovery Landcare Group goes from strength to strenth

July 2021  

Cultural immersion for Greater Sydney Landcare

Learning about the history and traditions of our First Nations peoples

July 2021  

Greater Sydney volunteer numbers on the up

A pulse check of Bushcare and Landcare in Greater Sydney

July 2021  

Adventure Conservation - Partnering with our Neighbours

Partnership between young peoples' and remote Landcare projects, GSLN's Get Your Hands Dirty and Central Tablelands LLS' Living on the Edge.

July 2021  

Allendale Landcare Group

Formation of a new Landcare Group in response to bushfire recovery actions

September 2020  

Greater Sydney Landcare Strategic Plan review

A review of the GSLN Strategic Plan (2016-2019) was carried out and amended to guide us for the next three years

September 2020  

Online facilitation skills training

Positive and productive online meetings

July 2020  

Eucalyptus ID masterclass

Two-day intensive masterclass identifying eucalypts of the Western Sydney, Hawkesbury and Lower Blue Mountains Regions.

July 2020  

Get Your Hands Dirty

Get Your Hands Dirty! Empowering young people to become switched-on Landcare leaders caring for Sydney’s threatened bushland

July 2020  

Volunteer Coordinators Network (VCN)

Supporting bush regeneration in Greater Sydney

June 2020  

Field Day/ Workshop

Central Coast Plateau including Kulnura and Yarramalong areas: Healthy Soils & Integrated Weed management for improved land management - Sunday 26th May 2019

August 2019  

Supporting our neighbours

Working with our neighbouring Landcare networks to support their good work

June 2019  

Climate Reality leadership in Brisbane

LLC Clare heads to Brisbane to join Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project

June 2019  

What matters most – biannual survey of the Landcare and Bushcare community in Sydney

Surveying Landcare, Bushcare and environmental volunteers, professionals, government and buisnesses.

June 2019  

Welcoming the next chapter of Streamwatch with GSLN

We've taken on Streamwatch!

June 2019  

Fireweed and turf farming in the Hawkesbury lowlands

Various activities were carried out in an attempt to engage neighbours of Turf farms to better manage their Fireweed. Green cestrum and other toxic weeds were also included in the weed education, as a range of weeds that impose a threat to any farm operation in the area.

June 2019  

Green Drinks

Green Drinks is a monthly event for communities across western Sydney, where like-minded green people meet to offload and network with others about local environmental issues. The events are not all about drinking, but are held at pubs and include a meeting as the core component.

June 2019  

Saving the Cumberland Plain Woodland with fire

A partnership with Greater Sydney Landcare Network and the National Parks & Wildlife Service successfully gained $350,000 for fire management on western Sydney’s Critically Endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland.

June 2019  

BatBlitz Western Sydney

Citizen science and researching micro bats in a threatened western Sydney riparian environment

June 2019  

Groovin' Grassroots rocks Bedlam Bay

A festival to celebrate environmental volunteering in the heart of leafy north Sydney

May 2020  

A Safety First

Providing first aid training for our members

June 2019  

Deer in Greater Sydney

An information event for Landcarers, Councils and Property owners

June 2019  

Statewide Gathering Report for 2019

Revisiting the state-wide gathering of Landcare Coordinators across NSW

June 2019  

Partnerships in Landcare

Lake Parramatta Bushcare Kayaking

May 2019  

A communicative refresh

Reinvigorating GSLN branding and communications strategy to increase audience engagement

March 2019  

Reaching out with helping hands

Duty of care and OH&S obligations when managing volunteers – a workshop

March 2019  

Harbour Care by Kayak

Cleaning up plastic pollution in Sydney Harbour

January 2019  

Update on Greater Sydney's Young Landcarers

The next generation are taking action!

October 2018  

Adventure With Purpose

Engaging the outdoor recreation sector

October 2018  

Biodiversity Forum

Share Learn Connect

January 2017  

Greater Sydney Intrepid Landcare

Inspiring the next Landcare generation in Sydney.

November 2016  

Landcare Online

Raising awareness and buidling connections across Greater Sydney

November 2016  

Cattai Hills Environment Network

Re-invigorating Landcare in the Cattai catchment and Hills Shire

November 2016  

Cumberland Plain Landcare Support

A support Program for western Sydney's Landcare and Bushcare community

November 2016  

Strategic Plan (Sep16-Jun19)

Development of the Greater Sydney Landcare Network's Strategic Plan

November 2016