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Richmond Landcare Projects

Current projects

​NSW Landcare Support Program 2019-2023
Funder/program: North Coast Regional Landcare Network via Landcare NSW and NSW Local Land Services' NSW Landcare Program (2019 - 2023)
Value ex GST: $176,841
Period: 26/7/2019 - 30/6/2023

Rosy futures: Mitigating threats and supporting climate change adaptation of Rosewood Mistletoe in Lowland Subtropical Rainforest at Alstonville
Funder: NSW Environmental Trust
Value ex GST: $115,000
Period: 1/11/2022 - 31/10/2025

Job’s Tears project
Funder: Rous County Council
$20,152
Oct 2021 - 30 June 2022
 
Lismore City Council Landcare Support
Lismore City Council
$20,000
3/8/2021 - 30/6/2022

Emergency assessment and remediation of landslips on Land for Wildlife properties - Flood Relief Funds
WWF Australia
$20,000
2/6/2022 - 2/6/2023

Ballina Landholder Mentoring and Capacity Building
Funder/program: North Coast Local Land Services via the Marine Estate Management Strategy
$15,250
31/1/2022 - 20/12/2022

Science Walks Science Talks
Inspiring Australia
$8000
No fixed date
  
Open Properties Field Day
Lismore City Council
$TBC
No fixed date

Bell Miner Associated Dieback Tregeagle Field Day
Northern Rivers Fire & Biodiversity Consortium
$3500
30/06/2022

Land For Wildlife 2022
Community Environment Network
$3500
1/1/2022 - 31/12/2022

Recent projects

​Nightcap Resilience 2: Restoring the Nightcap Connector Rainforests
Funder/program: Landcare Australia via the Landcare-Led Bushfire Recovery Program
Value ex GST: $236,923
Period: 9/8/2021 - 31/7/2022

Koala focused- Land for Wildlife project
Funder: Border Ranges Richmond Valley Landcare via WWF Australia
Value ex GST: $132,500
30/9/2021 - 30/9/2022

Restoring Resilience to Nightcap Connector Rainforests
Funder/program: Lismore City Council via the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources' Bushfire Recovery for Wildlife and Habitat Community Grants Program
$128,500
01/4/2021 - 30/6/2022

North Coast Bushfire Recovery Project - W3 Stakeholder Partnerships
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North Coast Local Land Services 
Value ex GST: $

Regional Nest Box for Bushfire Recovery
North Coast Regional Landcare Network via Landcare Australia's Landcare-Led Bushfire Recovery Program
Value ex GST: $34,500
23/8/2021 - 30/6/2022

Mysore Thorn project
Funder: Rous County Council
$24,846
Oct 2021 - 30/6/2022​

Landslide management education project
Northern Rivers Community Foundation
Value: $10,000
Period: 6/4/2022 - 6/7/2022
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​Post-bushfire nest box monitoring program
Northern Rivers Community Foundation
$6436
20/10/20-18/2/22

Land For Wildlife 2021
Community Environment Network
$3500
1/1/2021 - 31/12/2021
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NSW Landcare Program 2019-23

Richmond Landcare hosts a Local Landcare Coordinator, funded under the 2019-2023 NSW Landcare Program. Our Coordinator Hannah Rice-Hayes works 2 days per week on a flexible basis.  You can contact her here.

The NSW Landcare Program is a state, regional and local investment in the partnership between Local Land Services and Landcare NSW, empowering people to take action on local problems and deliver outcomes across local and regional issues.
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Lismore City Council Landcare Support

Richmond Landcare Inc is working in partnership with Lismore City Council to deliver the Lismore Landcare Program. This program provides support services to local Landcare groups within the Lismore Local Government Area and supports the delivery of the Lismore Biodiversity Management Strategy 2015-35.


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Land for Wildlife

​Land for Wildlife is a voluntary property registration scheme for landholders who wish to manage areas of wildlife habitat on their property.  Land for Wildlife encourages and assists landholders to include nature conservation along with other land management objectives.

Land for Wildlife is free to join and is not legally binding. Registration in the scheme will not change the legal status of a property.  


Richmond Landcare manages the  Land for Wildlife scheme in the Lismore and Ballina local government areas.  It is a simple process - Land for Wildlife does not come with any covenants or binding agreements and is a sign of your commitment to provide and maintain at least half a hectare of your property for wildlife.  


After an expression of interest is lodged one of our voluntary assessors will visit the property and take the application to the next stage. There are no costs involved.  Richmond Landcare Inc is  also able to send one of their team along to community group meetings to  explain more about the program.  

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Contact RLI's Landcare Coordinator for more information.  Complete the following form with name and email address then click on 'Submit' to send a contact request to Hannah.

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Past project examples

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Habitat recovery for hollow dependent fauna- Regional scale solutions for long term resilience 2021-22

Richmond Landcare Inc is working in partnership with North Coast Regional Landcare Network Inc and other district networks to deliver this bushfire recovery project, focusing locally on the Terania area impacted by the Mt Nardi bushfire. The post-bushfire response has seen hundreds of nest boxes installed by 11 Landcare Networks in bushfire-affected areas along with the adoption of carved hollows using chainsaw techniques or 'HollowHog' drilling systems. This regional-scale project plans to expand the installation of artificial hollows, deliver workshops on innovative hollow-creation tools, instigate landscape-scale monitoring and undertake data analysis to assess effectiveness of artificial hollow programs and make recommendations for improvements.

North Coast Bushfire Recovery Project - W3 Stakeholder Partnerships 

Local Land Services received funding from the NSW Government to assist bushfire-impacted communities recover from the devastating and unprecedented 2019-20 fire season. The principal objective is to directly support recovery of impacted properties and the community, by providing several services including support for weed management and control activities. Broadly, sub-projects need to be delivered within 2019 fire scars (impacted areas) plus a 50 km radius. Target weeds in high risk pathways associated with the fire events were considered.

Funding and delivery of the project is for the 2020-21 financial year. North Coast Local Land Services set specific criteria to guide the delivery of weed projects. This includes that projects can value-add (compliment but not duplicate) concurrent, internal or externally delivered weed projects.

This project is undertaking targeted weed control work on public and private land bordering and inside the Lismore LGA (in the localities of Nimbin, Tuntable Creek, Terania Creek and Whian Whian) and Duck Creek in the Ballina LGA. The works target Giant devil's fig (Solanum chrysotrichum) which is mass-germinating across the area post-drought/fire; the new weed incursion of Job’s Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi or JT) at its upstream limit, and mapped incursion of Mysore thorn (Caesalpinia decapetala) - a regional containment priority. One property additionally will target Seeded Banana. Works will occur on properties within and surrounding the 2019 Mt Nardi Fire scar. RLI is working directly with landholders and will partner with local groups Whian Whian Landcare and Tuntable Creek Landcare for engagement and outreach.
Emigrant Creek Property Assessment Project

The Emigrant Creek Property Assessment Project aims to support small landholders to improve their knowledge and capacity to manage their properties for healthy land and waterways.  Successful landholders will increase their understanding of local Natural Resource and Environmental Management issues, and build their confidence to implement practice change.  Land management assessments will consider key areas including biosecurity, vegetation management and nutrient runoff, ultimately improving habitat values and in-stream health of Emigrant Creek and subsequently the Richmond River.  A number of LLS projects are underway working with Macadamia growers in the area to mitigate diffuse pollutants. The catchment has been identified as a priority for the NSW Marine Estate Management Strategy. This project targets small “lifestyle” or non-commercial properties of any land use between 2-20Ha.

With funding from North Coast Local Land Services and supported by North Coast Regional Landcare Network, Richmond Landcare will undertake property visits with successful landholders.   During these visits our professional staff will walk the property with you, identifying environmental risks and assets, talking about your aims and ideas for the property and helping to plan a path forward for a healthier farm and waterway. After the visit, landholders will be provided with a property assessment report. These assessments will provide non-binding educational information and general property management advice to help plan future activities.  

Eligible landholders will be provided with an incentive $500 value towards on-ground activities for the mitigation and management of run-off and other locally specific threatening processes to waterway health.  Further information regarding eligible activities will be provided to successful landholders. 
Local Landcare Coordinators Initiative

Richmond Landcare hosts a Local Landcare Coordinator, funded under the 2015-2019 Local Landcare Coordinators Initiative. Our Coordinator Hannah Rice-Hayes works 2 days per week on a flexible basis.  You can contact her here.

The Local Landcare Coordinators Initiative (LLCI) is a $15 million, four year project to renew the government - community relationship and unlock the full potential of the thousands of volunteers in the Landcare Network.
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Working on Water in Whian Whian: 2017-18 North Coast Local Land Services Targeted Engagement Project

‘Healthy catchments and improved water quality in the upper Wilsons River catchment: Riparian and catchment restoration and soil conservation in Whian Whian’ delivered a comprehensive range of on-ground and community capacity building outcomes aimed at increasing riparian and catchment restoration, soil conservation and community engagement in the Whian Whian locality of NSW.

The project employed a combination of; on-ground vegetation restoration activities, soil conservation and erosion mitigation, water quality monitoring, and community capacity building activities to improve the health of the catchment and its people. The project piloted the construction of an artificial wetland on a Macadamia farm as a tool for mitigating soil loss and improving water quality exiting the farm.

This project was delivered in partnership with Whian Whian Landcare as part of the 2017/18 Targeted Engagement Project and was supported by North Coast Local Land Services through funding from the National Landcare Program.

Constructed Wetland Resources:

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RLI receives Community Environment Grant from the Australian Government's Caring for our Country 

RLI and project partner, Dorroughby Educational Environment Centre, are recipients of a Community Environment Grant for an exciting project, 'Artificial hollows and habitat enhancement for Gliders, Frogs & Koalas' for schools.

The project is based on 'Taronga Zoo's 'Project Insitu' program, a highly successful community education program. 'Project Insitu' involves school children engaging their local community to take action in helping save a locally threatened species. Two high schools and eight primary schools will take part in the project.

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Each project is initiated by a visit from Taronga’s Zoomobile to make students aware of the plight of the chosen species( (Squirrel Glider & Great Barred Frog).  Students are motivated to become part of the solution and challenged to create awareness and behaviour change in their local community. 
Project activities include building & installing artificial hollows to provide Glider habitat, tree planting to provide future habitat for gliders and koalas and improvement of local waterways to encourage frog breeding.

Dorroughby Environmental Education Centre is a NSW Department of Education and Communities facility located 20 minutes NE of Lismore. Experienced teachers provide sustainability, cultural and environmental programs for students K-12 at the centre, within schools and at a variety of other sites e.g rainforests, wetlands, and coasts. 

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Dorroughby Environmental Education Centre (DEEC) is a NSW Department of Education and Communities facility located 20 minutes NE of Lismore. Experienced teachers provide sustainability, cultural and environmental programs for students K-12 at the centre, within schools and at a variety of other sites e.g rainforests, wetlands, and coasts.


The centre also provides:

  • professional development for teachers in sustainability education
  • video conferences for students and staff
  • support for schools in implementing sustainability cross curriculum planning and management of resources (waste, energy, water, biodiversity)


Pictured left: Christine Freeman, Principal DEEC, measuring how far a squirrel glider can fly.


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The Community Environment Grant for  'Artificial hollows and habitat enhancement for Gliders, Frogs & Koalas'  is sponsored by Richmond Landcare Inc & Dorroughby Environmental Education Centre with funding provided by the Australian Government's Caring for our Country. 


Richmond Landcare Biochar project

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“Soil carbon sequestration and rehabilitation: Landholders develop, implement and assess biochar”
Richmond Landcare Incorporated in partnership with NSW Department of Primary Industries and Best Energies Australia  received $297,000. over three years under the 2008­/09 Landcare Sustainable Practices grant component of Caring for Our Country. 

“This project, “Soil carbon sequestration and rehabilitation: Landholders develop, implement and assess biochar”, is a continuation of the successful project funded under the 2007­08 NLP Community Support round. The pilot phase of the project assessed carbon fractions in soils at ten sites on the north coast, and biochar trials were established on over 130 plots. The aim of this project is to demonstrate and encourage the uptake of biochar applications to improve the sustainability of agricultural systems and to mitigate climate change.

Biochar in Horticulture  Prospects for the use of biochar in Australian horticulture - Published in 2012.

The Ballina Biochar and Waste to Energy Project Powers Ahead  A Biochar and Waste-to-Energy project in Ballina that joins the dots between environmental and economic outcomes will receive $4.3 million from Round Two of the Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF). details

CNN news 'Can Biochar Save the Planet?'

Biochar news...'Char Grilled' on ABC Landline 24/5/2009 watch the video

Australia & New Zealand Biochar Organization

ABC Catalyst program on Agrichar (biochar) click here for info and video

Richmond Landcare Inc in partnership with NSW DPI receives Australian Government grant for carbon assessment project. Media release.

Biochar information can be accessed from the following sources: 

Cornell University

International Biochar Initiative (IBI)

Biochar Myths - PowerPoint  (Van Zwieten and Walker)
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Biochar Basics - NSW DPI PrimeFacts
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Biochar Kyoto Presentation - PowerPoint (Van Zwieten and Kimber)
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​Contact Richmond Landcare
Richmond Landcare Incorporated - PO Box 525, Alstonville, NSW 2477 - Phone 0484 104 854
Richmond Landcare Inc acknowledges and pays respect to the original custodians of this land, the people of the Bundjalung nation and their Elders past, present and future. RLI recognises the Bundjalung people’s continuing culture and connection to country; their deep knowledge of the natural environment, and the contribution they make to the life of the Richmond catchment. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.