Landcare going from strength to strength in NSW

By Janelle Saffn MP, State Member for Lismore

On the evening of Tuesday 1st August I got together with many of my fellow Parliamentarians to join in the ‘Trees in the House’ celebration of Landcare NSW. It was great to see so much support for this wonderful movement which is now into its fourth decade of leading community efforts to care for our environment.

There is a strong NSW Parliamentary Friends of Landcare group of which I am proud to be a member, and the fact it is bipartisan demonstrates the commitment both sides of politics have towards Landcare across our great state.

Ahead of the 2023 state election the Labor

Opposition that I was a part of pledged $59 million towards the next phase of the NSW Landcare program to be rolled out over the coming four years. I’m pleased to report that we’ve honoured this commitment now that we’re in government. It is the largest-ever injection of funds into

Landcare by any NSW Government, and will support local jobs in rural and regional communities.

Landcare NSW coordinates a 60,000-strong network of volunteers in 3,000 Landcare groups across NSW, who augment work done by landholders on