Paula Sheehan

Paula Sheehan

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Paula Sheehan is the Regional Landcare Coordinator East (RLC east) for the Murray region, based in Holbrook and hosted by Holbrook Landcare Network.  The RLC in the Murray is a job share arrangement with Paula Sheehan and Sandy Dellwo.

  •   2016-2019 Local Landcare Co-ordinator Initative (LLCI). Paula was a Local Landcare Coordinator with Holbrook Landcare Network (0.5FTE) and also with Petaurus Education Group Inc (0.5FTE).
  • 2019-2023 NSW Landcare Program (NSWLP). Paula was the Regional Landcare Coordinator with Holbrook Landcare Network (0.5FTE) and also with Petaurus Education Group Inc (0.5FTE).
  • 2024 - NSW Landcare Enabling Program (LEP) is the current funding program.

  The Murray region has five NSW Landcare Enabling Program Landcare 2023-2027 host organisations. Each host employs Landcare Co-ordinator/s. They, along the Paula and Sandy, support community landcare and the Murray Landcare Collective, funded through the Landcare Enabling Program by the NSW Government.

“The NSW Landcare Enabling Program is fantastic for regional NSW” said Paula, “It not only creates practical, real time support for community volunteers and on-ground projects, it also drives job creation and has an economic benefit with an increase in successful grant applications for community projects”.

Between 2016-2019 Landcare Coordinators in the Murray generated $2.5 million in direct grant funding and partnership projects.  Paula added "and that’s only the easy stuff to measure. I am really looking forward to this next phase and excited about what landcare will achieve together and with our partners like Local Land Services”.

The Murray RLC convenes the Murray Landcare Collective and is a part of the statewide landcare network, playing a key role in expanding and multiplying on the benefits delivered at the local district and network scale. Paula and Sandy will also support regional approaches to priority planning, regional collaboration, regional organisation and the capacity for Landcare networks and groups in their regions to participate more effectively in larger scale opportunities.

Paula’s technical background includes a Bachelor of Forest Science from the University of Melbourne and 25+ years’ experience working in Natural Resource Management in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales.

For more details about the Murray Landcare Collective, go to murraylandcare.com.au website or the landcare.nsw.gov.au/groups/murray-landcare-collective/