An Introduction
- Landcare involves groups of people caring for land and water resources, both by fixing up problems like salinity and water pollution and by caring for areas to prevent problems occuring
- Landcare groups work out what they want to do as a group – by sharing information, and by mapping and planning together to devise activities that they will do as individuals on their own places, but also as a group – helping each other out on the larger tasks that need lots of people to help
- Group activities depend on the local environment and the problems facing it. Landcare activities also depend on what the local group wants to do
- Junior landcare is just the same – but the members are at schools or in youth or scout groups
- Junior landcare has special funding, advice and support programs supporting schools and groups in their aims
- People who work together to fix and prevent land and water degradation form their own landcare groups for their local area
- Groups can include farmers or neighbours in a bushland area, or a whole town
- Groups also may be students concerned about a degraded site within their school or community, or surfers looking after a beach
- The members themselves form the landcare group. Groups are independent, self-reliant and may have just a few members or many members across a community.