Celebrating Landcare with Connecting Country’s new grant
Posted on 14 January, 2021 by Ivan
Connecting Country is excited to announce we were successful in obtaining a small community grant from the Mount Alexander Shire Council (MASC), allowing us to produce a video celebrating the amazing achievements of our local Landcare groups from across the Mount Alexander region in central Victoria. Our 2021 Celebrating Landcare project will highlight the variety of on-ground landscape restoration and other Landcare activities from across our region that contribute to a healthy and more sustainable landscape. We love our volunteers and this is a chance to recognise their significant achievements in a visual format, using a combination of interviews, footage from on the ground, and project information.
We are very fortunate to have around 30 active Landcare and Friends Groups in our region, which will be very hard to capture in a short video, but we will do our best! We are forever grateful for their passion and array of skills, which has resulted in the recovery of many degraded landscapes across our region.
This project will also aim to attract new members to our Landcare groups, and show the many benefits of volunteering and being part of a bigger picture of landscape restoration. Current members and volunteers include over 1,300 residents from a diverse mix of cultural and demographic backgrounds, genders and age groups. These groups collectively own or manage a significant proportion of the private land throughout our shire.
Annual Muckleford Landcare Bike Ride. Photo: Muckleford Catchment Landcare Group
February 2020 Landcare Link-up. Photo: Jacqui Slingo
McKenzie’s Hill Action & Landcare Group volunteers planting 100 prickly plants for habitat. Photo: Sylvia Phillips
Revegetation of degraded woodlands. Photo: Gen Kay
Working bee with Ian Higgins from Friends of Campbells Creek. Photo: Asha Bannon.
We hope our video will support and acknowledge over 10,000 hours of incredible work our Landcare volunteers contribute to the region annually, all in five minutes of video! A big ask we know, but we are determined to deliver a great project within the modest budget.
We expect to have the video completed late in the second half of 2021 and will keep the community updated on its progress.
In the meantime, please enjoy our five minute video highlighting our restoration and bird monitoring programs, produced by our partners at Remember The Wild. We would like to thank the MASC for the community grant funding and acknowledge their contribution towards delivery of this project.
Great Video! Inspiring! Cant wait to see the Landcare Video.
Thanks so much, Eliza
Lovely little video!
Concise, engaging and informative- well done everyone!
Cheers,
Jill Teschendorff
Thanks kindly Jill