Hi Landcarers, Welcome to the September edition of our newsletter! Below you’ll find information on upcoming working bees, garden tours, sculpture exhibitions, Richmond RiverFest events and more. We welcome your input to a new project we are exploring so if you haven’t already, please register your interest below. We also share updates from some our projects and some inspiring project updates from some of our local Landcare groups. Wishing you all a wonderful month ahead and

On Wednesday 2nd September 2026 Richmond Landcare Inc. coordinated a cultural burn at Tucki Tucki Flood Reserve as part of our Caring for Catchments - Cultural Connections project along with Michael Kennedy, Aboriginal Landcare Officer with North Coast Regional Landcare Network (NCRLN). The cultural burn built on trusted Aboriginal Rights Holder relationships and was led by the Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council (Ngulingah LALC) ranger team. We were joined by members fro

This is a must-watch – an inspiring update on the Environmental Trust and Goonengerry Landcare Group’s Project for Restoration and Linkage of Wilsons and Coopers Creeks including Upper Coopers Creek Extension. If you'd like to connect with Goonengerry Landcare please head to their website: https://goonengerrylandcare.org/

Richmond Landcare Incorporated welcomes and supports the calls from Ballina Shire Council, Byron Shire Council and Rous County Council that the State Government establish a Richmond River Commissioner. There have been multiple studies on the condition of coastal river systems on the east coast of NSW that have cited that the Richmond River and its primary tributary the Wilsons River are the most degraded waterways in the region. Impacts from land clearing have led to signific

Edit 29/09/2025 Richmond Landcare Inc. has advised CSIRO that we will not be pursuing the inclusion of our Nature-Based Solutions project as a modelling scenario at this time. This is primarily due to the timeframes required by CSIRO being too short for our project’s data to be ready to share. In the meantime, we will be continuing our work using the hydrodynamic models developed by Southern Cross University and Australian National University, with inputs on measuring the eff