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The
National Landcare Network is the national peak body representing community landcare groups in Australia. Its aim is to "represent, support and foster the community Landcare movement". As of 2023 its members include around 2000 landcare organisations from the states and territories, which
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The
Landcare Australia organisation has grown and diversified since its small-scale origins in the 1980s. The Landcare concept has grown to include groups working on town and city green areas, waterways, beaches and larger park areas. For example, Landcare Australia now has
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organisation that involves local groups of volunteers repairing the natural environment. Originally, projects focused on agricultural farmland. The idea was that farmers, conservationists, and scientists could work together to improve both farm quality and natural ecosystems.
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Australia maintains the online National Landcare Directory (NLD), which includes a wide variety of community-based groups across Australia, including landcare networks and groups, farmers, landholders,
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The range of activities now included within
Landcare programs has expanded to include research that measures effectiveness of previous activities, fencing out stock so that vegetation can regrow, creating
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Australia are supported by Landcare Australia as a national body as well as by national and state-based agencies or organisations, including:
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in central
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Victoria Inc. (LVI), formed in 2017 when the Farm Tree and Landcare Association (FTLA) merged with the Victorian Landcare Council (VLC) in 2017
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declared a decade of landcare and established a continuing funding mechanism to enable the volunteers to continue and expand their work.
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Landcare Australia conference. Awards were given over nine categories, including youth,
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