Deadline: 31 December 2024
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award is a prestigious national award that publicly recognises an individual, group or organisation for their involvement in championing landcare and inspiring others to take action on their property or in their community.
The award acknowledges the remarkable commitment to caring for the land with improved sustainable land management practices, and promotional efforts to share their knowledge with others.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award accepts nominations from individuals, groups or organisations who have demonstrated leadership and a commitment to natural resource management and sustainable land management practices through:
- Actively shaping and guiding innovative farming systems to improve sustainability and the quality of ecosystem services.
- Encouraging action and championing the uptake of more sustainable agriculture practices among landholders, farmers and primary producers.
- Creating awareness of the benefits of landcare to actively caring for the land.
- Mentoring and/or inspiring others to adopt best practice conservation land management practices to restore, enhance and protect the natural environment.
- Demonstrating an outstanding commitment to responding to environmental challenges into actionable, community-led solutions for biodiversity conservation, supporting threatened species and/or improved sustainable agriculture.
Funding Information
- The Bob Hawke Landcare Award recipient will be awarded a grant package to the value of $30,000 (ex GST) for further development of their knowledge and skills in sustainable land management to enable an even stronger contribution to landcare.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, nominees must be actively involved in landcare, natural resource management and sustainable agriculture and meet the following criteria:
- Individual nominee: Australian citizen actively engaged in landcare or sustainable agriculture.
- Group nominee: An Australian community-led group including landcare groups and landcare networks, farming system groups.
- Organisation nominee: Australian-owned, not-for-profit, non-government entity, demonstrating leadership in natural resource management and sustainable agriculture.
- Involvement: Actively participating in landcare activities or sustainable agriculture initiatives.
- Commitment: Demonstrated dedication to environmental stewardship and promoting sustainable practices.
- No self-nomination. Nominations can only be made by a third party.
For more information, visit Landcare Australia.
