What is Landcare?

Landcare is a national community volunteer program that aims to deliver improved land, water and environmental outcomes. Landcare was launched in 1986. There are now more than 60 Landcare groups across the Wimmera and 4000 groups nation wide.

What does Landcare do?

Landcare works with community groups to promote and deliver activities designed to help farmers and land managers. This includes pest, plant and animal management on private and public land and re-vegetation projects to improve land management practice. Landcare contributes to the region's ongoing commitment to sustainable landscape change and improvement.

How do I get involved with Landcare?

It’s easy to become involved in Wimmera Landcare. To find out the location of Landcare groups in your area, see this picture Landcare Boundaries (373.02 kB).

To find out more about Wimmera Landcare you can contact Wimmera CMA.  Landcare Booklet 2009 (1.5 MB) 

Landcare events 

Every year the Wimmera hosts major plantout weekends across the region. These are a fantastic opportunity to get your hands dirty and make a difference to the environment. The weekends are a lot of fun and people come from all over the world to be part of the Wimmera plantout calendar.

Every year, volunteers turn out in droves for the major community Landcare weekends of:

• Project Platypus
• Yarrilinks
• Project Hindmarsh 

Landcare links
Victorian Landcare Gateway
Landcare Australia
Natural Heritage Trust