New Landcare Futures

Hughes Creek Catchment Collaborative (HCCC) are excited to announce that our landscape proposal, Granite2Goulburn, has been accepted into Landcare Victoria Inc’s New Futures for Victorian Landcare pilot program, commencing January 2024. 

The Granite2Goulburn landscape  encompasses 408,000ha extending from the area covered by the Strathbogie Ranges Conservation Management Network to the Longwood Plains, the Hughes Creek Catchment down to Whiteheads Creek and the Goulburn River in Seymour and Nagambie and the Seven and Castle Creeks in Euroa.

The Granite2Goulburn group includes the Longwood Plains Conservation Management Network, Strathbogie Ranges Conservation Management & Network and Euroa Arboretum Inc., as well as the Hughes Creek Catchment Collaborative.

Expressions of Interest were received from 12 landholders interested participating in the New Futures Landscape Impact Program, run as part of the pilot. They will be contacted shortly to discuss their involvement in the project.

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About the Project:

New Futures for Victorian Landcare is an exciting new project that aims to support the landcare community to undertake landscape scale planning and explore a model that enables landcare to access other forms of funding to implement their plans, such as emerging green investment markets.

New Futures for Victorian Landcare will pursue solutions to important challenges faced by landcare including the need to:

• Initiate landscape planning processes that mobilise local knowledge and enable effective on-ground action by volunteer community landcarers and landholders.

• Develop new pathways for investment beyond grant-based project funding.

• Establish systems for monitoring, evaluation and communication that demonstrate environmental impact and social change.

The project is funded by The Ian Potter Foundation and the Natural Resources Conservation Trust.

Project partners include Landcare Victoria Inc, Regen Farmers Mutual, Landscape Finance Lab and ANU Sustainable Farms.

For more information from Landcare Victoria go to landcarevictoria.org.au/newfutures.

Thanks to Janet Hagen for her excellent work on the application for this project.

Further details to come over the next few months.

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New Futures for Victorian Landcare is an important contribution towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.