Greater Sydney Landcare Network

A network for those who care for Land in Greater Sydney

Take a journey into our weekly webinars

We hope you’ve been doing ok during these difficult times. We’re certainly looking forward to getting back out on the ground and but in the mean time, we’re excited to be bringing you some special online stories that you can enjoy from your home every week. We’ve got some super interesting topics this month!

  • Splashing into Streamwatch – water quality monitoring with Streamwatch
  • Creating Koala Habitat with Hawkesbury Nepean Landcare Network
  • Tree Canopies – the superfood for your health with University of Wollongong
  • Knowing Your Patch – birding in a 5km radius with expert bird watcher, Mark Fuller
  • Turn Down the Heat in Western Sydney with Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils

Check out our Events page for more detail and to register

Help us to make Sydney Greener!

A beautiful Eucalyptus tereticornis (Forest Red Gum, Buringoa (D’harawal)) alongside Toongabbie Creek near Parramatta. Trees with hollows are vital for fauna such as Powerful Owls to be able to breed. A tree like this is likely to be 100 to 200 years old.

Greater Sydney Landcare’s Creating Canopies team have grown thousands of trees to plant in Greater Sydney. Help us to plant these trees and cool Sydney. We can make it greener and give places for our fauna to live for generations to come.

We are planting in June, July, August and September across Sydney, you can volunteer to help us plant,. Or register your interest in your site as a place to plant trees for the future.

Creating Canopies delivers community resilience

Tubestock ready for planting with Creating Canopies

The keys to resilience in the environment and in our society are connectivity and diversity. Greater Sydney Landcare seeks to build resilience through knowledge sharing, active engagement and a series of important programs that support the health of our waterways and landscapes. These include Streamwatch, Saving our Species, Creating Canopies, Get your Hands Dirty and support for Local Landcare initiatives.

Greater Sydney Landcare, through its Creating Canopies program can help with all aspects of planning for a tree planting event – if you register with us. We source the right trees with local provenance, so that the trees are also resilient. Trees planted as tube stock, again delivering ‘resilience’, this time to project sites – as the tubestock adapts to their local microclimate by growing from a young age in the setting they will end up being trees in (compared to a nursery or greenhouse which could provide artificial conditions). 

The benefits of being a registered Landcare group include:

·      Public liability insurance up to $20 million for bush care activities for $40 pa

·      Access to the GSLN’s extensive support network, including bush care workers

·      Promotion of your planting as an integrated site, community garden and urban forest within the broader bush care community

·      Recognition in the environmental sector as a productive site of sustainability and climate action.

Partnering with Landcare ultimately provides expertise, advice and resources to landowners. It supports the delivery of local solutions and provides additional support via the volunteer effort that is sometimes required. Landcare takes a long-term sustainable approach to all land and environmental management be it an urban bushland setting, on farming land or public land held by Councils and other public entities. Landcare brings confidence and insurance appropriate to each site. Within, Greater Sydney Landcare has a focus on youth and young adult education and engagement.

For more information email Creating Canopies on the following email… trees@greatersydneylandcare.org or for general Greater Sydney Landcare enquiries info@greatersydneylandcare.org

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