Community Landcare in the ACT brings people together to connect with nature and care for the places they love. From rural, urban, junior and Aboriginal groups, to citizen scientists and local volunteers, Landcare helps communities protect the environment while building stronger connections with each other and the natural world.
In both 2025 and 2026, the ACT Government invited tenders for the Community Stewardship and Environmental Education Program (CSEEP) and the Upper Murrumbidgee WaterWatch Program. Landcare ACT was selected as the preferred supplierand is currently progressing negotiations with the government and potential subcontractors to support program delivery.
The goals of the program are:
Support, connect and equip environmental volunteers in the ACT so they can take part in caring for the natural environment.
Increase the ACT community’s awareness, connection and appreciation of the natural environment. We want more people to feel informed, included and excited to value and care for nature.
Listen to and share community ideas and concerns with government. Connecting local knowledge experience to guide environmental projects and decisions in the ACT.
The goals of the program are:
Help the community get involved in monitoring and caring for local waterways through citizen science activities.
Monitor the health of waterways by collecting high quality data. Volunteers are upskilled to gather and check this information so we can better understand and protect our waterways.
Increase awareness and education about water catchments, water health and ways to reduce our impacts on our waterways.
Landcare ACT promotes and support caring and education of our precious landscapes. Volunteers and participants are at the heart of everything we do, driving on ground action, sharing their knowledge and strengthening community nature connection across the ACT Region. We also build and promote an evidence base of the collective expertise of the Landcare movement and share these achievements with Territory and Federal Governments, as well as local government departments and bodies.
We are committed to supporting, celebrating and promoting the volunteers and participants whose dedication sits at the heart of Landcare and makes this work possible.
To do this we have 5 strategic priorities:
1. Support and grow our volunteers, and community support for nature.
2. Demonstrate the impact we have, both on the environment and community. All organisations utilising taxpayers funds must demonstrate their value.
3. Leverage the investment we get, grow our financial resilience, and in turn our impact, by showing the good we do, thereby attracting more resources, corporate, philanthropic, and other government sources.
4. Partner with government to deliver, to deliver on community stewardship, waterwatch, the climate strategy and the nature conservation strategy. Partner with community, with farmers, Traditional Owners, with underrepresented groups, with corporates, to build our network and grow our impact.
5. Be sure of our purpose: Community Nature Connection, and Landcare.
We would love to hear from you about how we can support you better. Get in contact with us by sending an email to ceo@landcareact.org.au
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