The Riverina Landcare Champions acknowledge and celebrate the individuals, groups and organisations working to protect our local ecosystems. It is a chance for us to recognise those who are contributing to the sustainability and productivity of our land and water assets for the benefit of all.
Click on the boxes below to get to know our Champions and Runners-up in each category, and read all about the amazing work being done right here in the Riverina!
Junior Landcare Team Champion
Narrandera Public School Narrandera Public School began their vegetable garden in 2012. Since then, they have extended their work to cover the reduction of waste at the school and revegetation works. For further information on Narrandera Public School, view their website here. The vegetable garden that started it all! Around 2012, staff member Lyn Seymour discovered…
Junior Landcare Team – Runner Up
Booligal Public School Booligal Public School have undertaken an extensive project to develop a native garden and environmental education initiative. For further information on Booligal Public School, view their website here. A garden for learning Through the planning, design and development of their new garden, students are learning about biodiversity, native species and their Aboriginal…
Partnerships for Landcare Champion
Local Land Services (Riverina) – Boosting the Bunyip Bird Yield Project The Riverina is home to the largest population of Australasian Bitterns in the world. The male Australasian Bittern makes an eerie deep booming sound in early summer and it’s this sound that is thought to have given rise to the legend of the Bunyip…
Landcare Community Group Champion
Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists MFN has been operating for 26 years as a volunteer organisation to facilitate and promote the knowledge of natural history, and to encourage the preservation and protection of the Australian natural environment, particularly in the Murrumbidgee River Valley. Visit the Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists Inc Facebook page here. It all started in 1994…..…
Landcare Community Group – Runner up
Grong Grong Earth Park The Grong Grong Earth Park comprises an open and free community garden, free camping zone, upcycled playground, eco fort and native plantings all of which have the underlying ethos of Grow, Gather, Give. For more information head to their website. It all started In 2013 with a group of Grong Grong…
In 2021, we are excited to recognise Landcare Champions in the following six categories:
- Indigenous Land Management
- Junior Landcare Team
- Individual Landcarer
- Landcare Farming
- Partnerships for Landcare
- Landcare Community Group
Click on the boxes below to get to know our Champions and Runners-up in each category, and read all about the amazing work being done right here in the Riverina!
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Junior Landcare Team Champion
Narrandera Public School Narrandera Public School began their vegetable garden in 2012. Since then, they have extended their work to cover the reduction of waste at the school and revegetation works. For further information on Narrandera Public School, view their website here. The vegetable garden that started it all! Around 2012, staff member Lyn Seymour discovered…
Junior Landcare Team – Runner Up
Booligal Public School Booligal Public School have undertaken an extensive project to develop a native garden and environmental education initiative. For further information on Booligal Public School, view their website here. A garden for learning Through the planning, design and development of their new garden, students are learning about biodiversity, native species and their Aboriginal…
Partnerships for Landcare Champion
Local Land Services (Riverina) – Boosting the Bunyip Bird Yield Project The Riverina is home to the largest population of Australasian Bitterns in the world. The male Australasian Bittern makes an eerie deep booming sound in early summer and it’s this sound that is thought to have given rise to the legend of the Bunyip…
Landcare Community Group Champion
Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists MFN has been operating for 26 years as a volunteer organisation to facilitate and promote the knowledge of natural history, and to encourage the preservation and protection of the Australian natural environment, particularly in the Murrumbidgee River Valley. Visit the Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists Inc Facebook page here. It all started in 1994…..…
Landcare Community Group – Runner up
Grong Grong Earth Park The Grong Grong Earth Park comprises an open and free community garden, free camping zone, upcycled playground, eco fort and native plantings all of which have the underlying ethos of Grow, Gather, Give. For more information head to their website. It all started In 2013 with a group of Grong Grong…
