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Business Plan - Caring for Our Country - at last!

Environment Minister Peter Garrett and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke today launched the inaugural Business Plan setting out the Government’s targets for the next year of Caring for our Country.

http://www.nrm.gov.au

Nesting, subsidiarity, and community-based environmental governance beyond the local level

By Graham R. Marshall, Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia. gmarshal@une.edu.au

Achieving NRM outcomes through voluntary action: lessons from landcare

Lessons from Landcare
Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment Discussion Paper.

Allan Curtis, David Lucas, Mike Nurse and Max Skeen.
Charles Sturt University and Department of Sustainability and Environment July 24, 2008

Introduction
Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia is characterised by complex issues that occur at landscape scales. The causes and solutions are uncertain and require long-term commitment, and no one organisation has the capacity to secure desired changes. A relatively small tax base and a large urban population, increasingly disconnected from rural and natural environments, have also constrained remediation efforts. Governments have invoked a variety of policy instruments, but there has been heavy reliance on the actions of private landholders and other volunteers to achieve NRM outcomes.

It’s About People: Changing Perspectives on Dryness, A Report to Government by an Expert Social Panel

DAFFThe Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon. Tony Burke MP, appointed an Expert Panel to examine the social impacts of drought on farm families and rural communities as part of its national review of drought policy.

Grants to Voluntary Environment and Heritage Organisations (GVEHO) program 2008-09

Tue, 28/10/2008 - 14:04 — ML

Applications for the 2008-09 round of Grants for Voluntary Environment and Heritage Organisation (GVEHO) are now open. Applications close at 5pm (AEDST) Friday 28 November 2008.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts will announce successful applications in early 2009.
What is the Grants to Voluntary Environment and Heritage Organisations program?

Biobanking: Balancing Development and Biodiveristy Conservation

Tue, 28/10/2008 - 12:19 — ML

ACCEL ACCEL
Seminar presented by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at the Sydney Law School.

Wednesday 19 November 2008 5.15 - 7pm
173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney



Overview
This seminar will provide an overview of the recently established Biodiversity Banking and Offsets Scheme. Louisa Fitz-Gerald will explain the Threatened Species Conservation (Biodiversity Banking) Regulation 2008. She will consider the legal and regulatory issues relating to environmental trading markets and the strategies to ensure permanence of biodiversity gains.

REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN

tending the grassroots

Join us for five days of discussion, debate, information sharing, problem solving, networking...

There are three events over five days including a full day of field trips on Monday 17 November.

  1. NRM Networking Partnerships Conference - 14-15 November.
    » Program
  2. NSW Landcare Muster - 16 November.
    » Program
  3. Resilient Landscapes, Resilient Communities: MLi & UMCCC Forum - 17-18 November.
    » Program

The changing nature of our rural neighbourhoods

Wed, 22/10/2008 - 10:16 — ML

Our rural neighbourhoods are changing. The ‘tree change' phenomenon is bring an influx of new residents, but at the same time some rural communities are declining. What challenges and opportunities do these changes bring for our local communities, businesses, governance and environment?

Carbon comes to town: Landcare CarbonSMART forum for landholders

Mon, 20/10/2008 - 20:08 — ML
CarbonSMART

Australia’s leading not-for-profit carbon trading organisation, Landcare CarbonSMART, is launching in the Riverina and South West Slopes region of NSW with an information session for landholders taking place on 27 October at Wagga Wagga’s Business Enterprise Centre.

NSW Minister for Primary Industries to launch new community sustainable agriculture initiative.

Launch by Minister of Primary Industries
From left to right: Ali Bowman (NSW DPI), Shane Norrish (Landcare
Australia),Sam Archer (Chair, Murrumbidgee Landcare), The Hon
Ian Macdonald, Minister for Primary Industries, Ross Edwards
Chair, Hentry Machinery Field Day)

MEDIA RELEASE
19 September 2008

At the Henty Machinery Field Day on Tuesday 23rd September, the Hon. Ian Macdonald, NSW Minister for Primary Industries will be on hand to launch a significant new community initiative. Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc, the community, non-profit, umbrella organisation representing landcare in the Murrumbidgee catchment, has recently been successful in attracting $150,000 in sponsorship from the Woolworths Sustainable Farming Drought Program. Through two projects, one in the mid and one in the lower catchment, Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc aims to support farmers embracing change to better manage their farming systems and the natural environment through periods of drought

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