Hi Landcarers, Welcome to the April edition of our newsletter. There is so much coming up in the next few months and we hope you can get out there and join in the fun! We are enjoying the cool mornings and evenings of April and look forward to seeing you at an event soon. 🌱Richmond Landcare News, Project updates & Events

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