STATE LANDCARE AWARDS
Congratulations to all the amazing volunteer groups and individuals who were nominated and recognised at the State Community Landcare Awards held in Launceston on Saturday 2 October 2021.
CONGRATULATIONS TO WYNYARD HIGH SCHOOL who won the Woolworths Junior Landcare Team Award for their excellent work in student and community education and
engagement
around
climate
change
and
sustainability, which has been driven by their students with the support and encouragement of the great WHS staff. Wynyard High School is now in the running for the National award. Peter Stronach Acting CEO Landcare Tasmania and Dylan from Wynyard High School, winner of Woolworths Junior Landcare Team Award.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MOUNT ROLAND RIVERCARE CATCHMENT INCORPORATED AND PENGUIN REHAB & RELEASE for
a
HIGHLY
COMMENDED
each in
the
ACM
Landcare
Community
Group
Award;
two
exceptionallycommitted groups achieving great things!
Since 1999 Mt Roland Rivercare Inc. have been leading the effort to protect Mount Roland and its surrounds through extensive weed management, feral animal and biodiversity studies, river works, and community education. The groups currently has 76 members and committee members contribute around 2,000 hours of voluntary labour to the Group’s activities annually. Penguin Rehab and Release is run entirely by volunteers and is the only facility in the North-West of Tasmania dedicated to rehabilitating penguins, and other seabirds, that come into care due to illness, injury or misadventure, with the aim of preparing them for successful release back into the wild.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SEA SPURGE REMOTE AREA TEAMS (AKA SPRATS) For a HIGHLY COMMENDED in the Coastcare Award for 16 years of dedicated weeding on the remote west coast with outstanding results. To date, SPRATS have removed more than 14 million Sea Spurge plants, reducing the number of plants from remote south-west Tasmania by about 99.6% through a sustained, thorough and ambitious weed control program that offers a life-changing opportunity for volunteers. p. 13
