Greater Sydney Landcare Network

A network for those who care for Land in Greater Sydney

About us
Membership
Creating Canopies
Landcare SOS
Streamwatch
Projects
Events
Resources
Subscribe!
- Past newsletters
- Sign up to the Streamwatch newsletter

Volunteer with us

We require social media skills, writing for our website, website development and a range of other tasks.

Please let us know if you are interested in volunteering.

Streamwatch

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Streamwatch is celebrating 30years of independent water quality data collection

Such a huge achievement for our dedicated volunteers

Streamwatch has found it’s new home here, at the Greater Sydney Landcare Network!

If you would like to register your interest in joining and supporting our amazing program click here

GSLN on Instagram

A horse of gorse. We just had another cracker week

A horse of gorse. We just had another cracker weekend away with an awesome crew down in the Southern Highlands!

On Saturday we smashed a lot of gorse, another horrible weed, under close supervision of the local horses and were treated to some delicious food @suttonforestinn. On Sunday we had a fantastic breakfast @theveggienook and explored Mt Gibraltar with Geoff Allen from the local Landcare Bushcare group and learnt about the local environment.

Stay tuned for more Get Your Hands Dirty events!
Thanks to all who joined and to @auspost

#landcare #conservation #weeding #mtgibraltar

We had some special guests at our Creating Canopie

We had some special guests at our Creating Canopies Christmas Party on the weekend! Thanks everyone for joining, we had a lovely day

Massive thanks to Tom Covell from @toms_hooked_on_nature for doing such an awesome nature exploration with us! It really helps to appreciate why we need to plant more trees and make more habitat

A real thorn in the side! Gleditsia is a really n

A real thorn in the side!

Gleditsia is a really nasty and invasive weed and we treated over 100 of them in the Capertee Valley on Saturday with Central Tablelands Local Land Services and Capertee Valley Landcare.

It was a super team and a super effort! It's so important to remove weeds like Gleditsia to prevent it from spreading into the Wollemi Wilderness area and also to restore habitat for the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater. There's only a few hundred of them left.

After all our hard work, we went up the road and had some delicious treats at From the Paddock Farm Market

Massive thanks to everyone who joined! Stay tuned for more events like this...

@centraltablelandslls @cvlandcare @fromthepaddockmarket

#landcare #conservation #weeding #regenthoneyeater #caperteevalley

Greater Sydney Landcare Forum, Annual General Meet

Greater Sydney Landcare Forum, Annual General Meeting &Xmas Party! All invited - Sunday 28th Nov, 2021 - online or in person

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/greater-sydney-landcare-forum-annual-general-meeting-xmas-party-tickets-204242844847

JUMP IN QUICK! We only have a few spots left for 2

JUMP IN QUICK! We only have a few spots left for 20-21 November!

Join us for a post lockdown adventure into a remote area of the Blue Mountains. It'll be a fantastic weekend of learning about the bush, getting our hands dirty removing weeds to help protect it and exploring the world heritage area that's home to several species of critically endangered birds, all in the incredible setting of the Capertee Valley, the second biggest canyon in the world!

So if you've always been keen to make a difference but weren't sure where to start, or just want a weekend in the bush with some like-minded people for a great adventure, now's your chance to get involved!

Link to register is in the bio

@cvlandcare @centraltablelandslls
#landcare #conservation #caperteevalley #bluemountains

What do the southern myotis bat, the striped marsh

What do the southern myotis bat, the striped marsh frog, the banded godwit and the eastern longneck turtle all have in common? Well they're all very special and they live on the banks of the Parramatta River. Join Jasmine Payget from the Parramatta Riverkeeper Network for an inspiring talk tomorrow at 6pm about the history of the river, the plans to clean it up and make it swimmable for us too. She'll be talking about the important and inspiring work that the Parramatta Riverkeeper Network is doing to connect and empower local people and organisations to regenerate and protect the local environment.

Registration link in bio

📸 Our Living River

@ourlivingriver @cityofparramatta @landcare_nsw @nswdpie

#parramatta #parramattariver

This event is funded under the Creating Canopies project. Landcare NSW has partnered with Greater Sydney Landcare Network to deliver the planting of 100,000 trees as part of the NSW Premier's Priority of increasing tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney.

Penrith City Council for the win! As part of our C

Penrith City Council for the win! As part of our Creating Canopies project, they planted 350 trees along School House Creek a few weeks ago which will help to restore the banks and bushland of the creek, improve water quality and create habitat for animals. An awesome effort, big thanks for your work!

If you're a public or private landholder, you can also apply to plant trees on your land so get in touch, trees@greatersydneylandcare.org

Landcare NSW has partnered with Greater Sydney Landcare Network to deliver the planting of 100,000 trees as part of the NSW Premiers Priority of increasing tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney.

@penrithcitycouncil @hawkesburynepeanlandcare
@landcare_nsw
@nswdpie

We're pretty excited about this Thursday night! In

We're pretty excited about this Thursday night! Incredible ecologist Tom Covell will be taking us on an online nature discovery. He'll be talking to us about all the awesome critters that live in urban and peri-urban bushland in Sydney, stuff like microbats, gliders, lizards and frogs and so much more. Tom has so much knowledge and passion and is one of the best speakers around, he'll really get you hooked!

Link is in the bio

@toms_hooked_on_nature

#landcare #conservationphotography #sydneywildlife #bushland #australiananimals #frogs #bats #gliders #lizards
📸Tom Covell

Creating Canopies in October

Creating Canopies in October

Check out this incredible little treasure! The Pur

Check out this incredible little treasure! The Purple Copper Butterfly is one of Australia's rarest and most beautiful butterflies. It exists under very specific conditions and lives only in the Central Tablelands region of NSW. It depends on a specific species of ant and a specific species of bush to survive!

Find out more about their fascinating adaptations and relationships with Central Tablelands LLS this Sunday for a webinar

To register, check their website: www.lls.nsw.gov.au/regions/central-tablelands/events/ct-events/butterflies-and-biodiversity

Who's hanging out in your backyard? This incredibl

Who's hanging out in your backyard? This incredible photo was taken by our Project Coordinator, Matt Keighery. The little powerful owl fledging was born metres away from his house.

Sadly, we're losing 13 to 15% of the powerful owl population in Sydney every year. There are very strong suspicions that rodenticide contributes to this.

So please use owl-friendly methods of dealing with rodents proposed by Birdlife Australia, you can check their website for more info

https://birdlife.org.au/rodent-control

#greatersydneylandcare
#landcare #conservation
#powerfulowl #bird

@birdlifeoz

Instagram post 17871102959564273

Instagram post 17871102959564273

Did you know that having at least 30% tree canopy

Did you know that having at least 30% tree canopy cover in your neighbourhood can reduce the risk of developing psychological distress by 31%?!

Join Associate Professor Xiaoqi Feng and Professor Thomas Astell-Burt in our next webinar to hear about the significant findings from their research about the mental health and wellbeing benefits of green spaces and particularly tree canopy cover. It'll make you want to plant some trees!

Registration link is in bio

#mentalhealth #greatersydneylandcare
#treeplanting
#landcare
@landcare_nsw

Creating Canopies in September

Creating Canopies in September

Lock down sure has slowed life down a bit. Maybe n

Lock down sure has slowed life down a bit. Maybe not as slow as this guy though. It's the humble Cumberland Plain Land Snail.

They're actually endangered and they live in the Cumberland Plain Woodland which is the bushland in Western Sydney. This bushland is critically endangered with only about 5% remaining!

We've been working really hard to help restore and protect the Cumberland Plain. Check out the video from last night's webinar by our amazing Local Landcare Coordinator, Xuela Sledge to learn more

Big shout out to all who joined us last night! We're looking forward to the next webinar on Streamwatch next Thursday

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjoCNif3Ya0

📷 Photo thanks to NPWS

#cumberlandplainwoodland #cumberlandplain #greatersydneylandcare #npws #conservation #westernsydney #snail #cumberlandplainlandsnail

@nswnationalparks @firesticks.alliance.network
@conservationvolunteers @greatersydney_lls

Check out this night owl! The beautiful tawny frog

Check out this night owl! The beautiful tawny frogmouth. It's actually not an owl but more closely related to the nightjars.

Have you seen one in your neighbourhood? This one was hanging out in a patch of Cumberland Plain bushland in Western Sydney

We've got a webinar on the Cumberland Plain bushland tomorrow, registration link is in bio. Its a great opportunity to learn more about the critically endangered ecosystem on our doorstep

#greatersydneylandcare
#tawnyfrogmouth
#cumberlandplain
#creatingcanopies
#westernsydney
#conservation

#greatersydneylandcare #cumberlandplain #westerns

#greatersydneylandcare
#cumberlandplain
#westernsydney
#conservation
#npws #landcare

Instagram post 17889520538365937

Instagram post 17889520538365937

Platypus video is up! Link in bio. Such a great cr

Platypus video is up! Link in bio. Such a great crowd last night for our first webinar. Thanks everyone :-)
@cattai_hills_enviro_net @hawkesbury_nepeanlandcare @georgiadis.costa

Instagram post 17933206855580538

Instagram post 17933206855580538

Load More… Follow on Instagram

Adventure Conservation

It reads like a travel brochure but these adventure opportunities are doing great things for the environment. Many of them are in the Sydney Basin.

Check them out

Want to know more?

You might like to download or read our flyer (PDF). Or GSLN Constitution V7.2 2020-0811 read our constitution (PDF) GREATER … Read more

Connect with Us

Categories

Aboriginal Heritage
Adventure Conservation
Creating Canopies
Cumberland Plain Restoration Program
Events
Grants
News
Resources
Streamwatch
Webinars

Latest posts

Latest posts

© 2022 Copyright - Greater Sydney Landcare Network Inc.