11 schools awarded 2018 South32 Junior Landcare Grants

With its 2017 South32 Junior Landcare Enhancing Habitat Grants proving such a success, the company has invested in a second round of grants for 2018. Grants were recently awarded to 11 schools in Western Australia and Tasmania.

Have you voted for your Junior Landcare heroes yet?

resented at the 2018 National Landcare and Awards in Brisbane on 11 October, the Woolworths Junior Landcare Team Award recognises the work of a youth organisation or young Landcare team that contributes to raising awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Landcare amongst young people and implements Landcare practices on its own property or within the local community.

Students take a stand

Everything from insects to small mammals has a new haven of food and shelter thanks to the efforts of a Landcare volunteer and students from a local school.

Students from Kelmscott Senior High’s specialist agriculture program rolled up their sleeves this week to join Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group officer Ross Wylie to plant a mix of native plants along the Canning River in Kelmscott.