Landcare
Australian Government, 2004
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The Australian Government's Landcare initiative aims to reverse land degradation and promote sustainable agriculture.
The goals of the Natural Heritage Trust's Landcare include: improving the condition of land resources that underpin the sustainability and productivity of resource based industries; securing access to land resources for productive purposes; encouraging the development of sustainable and profitable land management systems for application by land-holders and other natural resource managers and users; and preventing or controlling the introduction and spread of feral animals, weeds and other biological threats to productivity.
Landcare is extremely effective in engaging primary producers in sustainable natural resource management activities.
The Natural Heritage Trust supports education activities to raise awareness amongst farmers about sustainable agricultural practices such as tree planting, weed removal, water quality monitoring and changing their own farming, business and domestic habits to be more environmentally friendly.
Land managers learn the causes of degradation and how to avoid it, therefore improving productivity and efficiency of land resource use. Landcare strikes the right balance between conservation and productivity.
The end result is increased profitability, competitiveness and sustainability of Australian agricultural industries, enhancement and protection of the natural resource base, and improved land use leading to better soil health, water quality and vegetation condition.
The Natural Heritage Trust provides land-holders, community groups and other natural resource managers with understanding and skills to contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management.
Landcare also educates the community about the seriousness of the problems of land and water degradation and the threat posed to the environment and our way of life. For example the problem of salinity in the Murray-Darling Basin threatens drinking and irrigation water over the next 20 years.
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