About us Join a community of people dedicated to preserving and restoring the Tweed’s environment.

Caring for the Tweed for over 25 years

For over 25 years, Tweed Landcare has been sustaining and caring for the Tweed environment.

The Tweed Caldera World Heritage area is one of Australia’s most biodiverse regions. Since the arrival of Europeans to this ancient caldera volcano valley around 200 years ago the relic Gondwana rainforest on the valley floor and foothills was largely cleared to make way for agricultural land leaving the bush in fragments across the shire. The Tweed Valley is home to a number of threatened plant and animal species.

Based in Murwillumbah, Tweed Landcare is a community-led organisation led by a volunteer Committee. Landcare is a community-based approach to managing and protecting our natural resources. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do. Tweed Landcare is a landcare group overseen by a volunteer committee and exists to preserve and restore natural habitat, support sustainable farming practices and our numerous active care groups (Landcare, Dunecare, Coastcare and ‘Friends of’ groups).

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Our mission

We support people caring for the environment and natural resources of the Tweed. We provide information, training, project coordination, advocacy and representation for our members, care groups, landholders and the broader community.

Who we help

We work closely with private landowners, Tweed Shire Council, local care groups restoring bushland on council and private land, and community members tackling environmental issues from weed invasion, habitat loss, wildlife protection, native seed conservation and sustainable farming. We work with a diverse array of partners including North Coast Local Land Services, Oz Fish and North Coast Regional Landcare Network, Indigenous communities, our neighbouring Landcare networks, alongside other organisations to achieve our work.

About Landcare

Tweed Landcare was started in 1997, built out of the grassroots Landcare movement that started in the 80s in Australia.

Landcare is all about locals taking action to care for the land and waters around them. Landcare is a unique community-based approach to managing and restoring Australia’s natural environment and improving the sustainability of agricultural activities. The national Landcare movement grew from initiatives in the mid-1980s which utilised community- based learning and action to address land conservation issues. The first Landcare group formed in Winjallok in Victoria in November 1986 in response to concerns about land degradation and biodiversity loss. It’s now spread across the country—and even the world. It’s built on a simple idea: when communities come together, they can make a big difference for our environment.

– Landcare has become:

A philosophy – influencing the way people live in the landscape while caring for the land.
Driven by Local Community Action- founded on stewardship and volunteers;
Knowledge generation – sharing and support mechanisms including groups, networks from district to national levels, facilitators and coordinators, government and non-government programs and partnerships – the Landcare model (Australian Landcare Council Secretariat, 2010a); and,
Landcare groups and networks –which motivate and facilitate the generation of community action and knowledge.