Promoting events run by your Landcare group can have huge advantages in increasing the profile of your group, encouraging people in your local community to get involved, and possibly even helping you get sponsorship and support from local businesses. This guide provides tips and ideas on various promotional avenues, including: Print media: Posters and flyers…
This manual is a guide for members of the Landcare community who are either thinking about starting to use social media, or who have been using it for a while but would like to learn more. It covers the key platforms of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Produced by Landcare Australia, 23 pages
Greening Australia has developed a series of ‘how-to’ guides, designed to help those involved in revegetation or restoration works. These introductory guides are for people wishing to learn, or be reminded about, the basic principles and practices of planting trees, shrubs and grasses for revegetation. The guides describe eight key steps that need to be…
This video series features information, pictures and calls of a range of native bird species found in different habitat elements of the Box Gum Grassy Woodlands of our region. Produced through the Communities in Landscapes project, Ground Dwellers (8 minutes) Shrub Dwellers (7 minutes) Hollow Nesters (10 minutes) Canopy Dwellers (24 minutes)
A teacher’s guide to incorporating Landcare into schools, with ideas for actively engaging students not only in learning about the environment, but seeing environmental issues face to face, and participating first hand in its protection and enhancement. Produced by the Hawkesbury-Nepean CMA and Greening Australia, 148 pages
A land manager’s guide, highlighting the value and role of native pastures for commercial production, and in maintaining native biodiversity and healthy landscapes. Produced by the Future Farm Industries CRC, 22 pages
A summary of the benefits of native shelter belts for agricultural productivity, biosecurity, landscape and land value. Produced by the Basalt to Bay Landcare Network , 10 pages
An information guide to the major native plant communities of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Produced by Murrumbidgee Irrigation, 2 pages
A simple guide to building a bee hotel, to provide alternative nesting sites for bees in areas where habitat is lacking. Plus the added bonus that they’re fun to make and add a quirky feature to your garden! Produced by Narrandera Landcare Food Garden, 4 pages
A guide to managing very high conservation value ground‑layers in Box Gum Grassy Woodlands. Produced by CSIRO, 52 pages