Landcare Action Grants Program
In 2024 the Tasmanian Government committed $900,000 over three years to expand the Landcare Action Grants (LAG) program as part of a larger package of initiatives with Landcare Tasmania. The LAG program provides State-funded grant opportunities to co-invest with farmers, Landcare and other community organisations on practical on-ground works for sustainable agriculture and Rivercare type activities. The scope of the program has now been expanded to include carbon farming initiatives, with the potential to link these activities with the Government's Carbon Farming Advice Rebate.
The LAG program includes an open competitive small to medium grants component, and a landscape scale projects component for activities focussing on a particular region or catchment. Small and medium sized grants have been provided to eligible landholders across the State; while at a catchment level value-added projects are being delivered by Landcare member groups.
LAG program objectives are to:
- Improve landscape and riverine health, stability and resilience;
- Support enhanced land management practices to reduce erosion and sedimentation;
- Assist the community to holistically manage natural and productive land and waterways across the landscape; and
- Provide opportunities for landholders to implement carbon farming initiatives in order to access carbon markets, in particular the Australian Government Emission Reduction Fund.
The second stage of funding for LAG Open Round 5 is underway with projects due to be completed in June 2025.
2015 NRM Review
In 2015 the Tasmanian Government reviewed the effectiveness of Tasmania's two principal instruments for natural resource management:
Tasmanian Natural Resource Management Framework (PDF 135Kb)
The review's findings and recommendations are outlined in the
2015 NRM Review Final Report.
What is Natural Resource Management?
Natural resource management is fundamentally about people. The success of natural resource management is ultimately determined by the level of community involvement and the adoption of ecologically sustainable practices across the community.
The term natural resources refers to a broad spectrum of environmental assets including:
- air
- water
- land
- plants
- animals
- micro-organisms
Individual assets are not isolated but are linked together to form natural systems of varying scale including:
- rivers
- lakes
- wetlands
- estuaries
- coasts
- forests
- fields
- geological systems
Natural resource management reflects these linkages within and between natural systems. It integrates the management of social, economic and environmental values by involving the community and industry in planning and decision making.
Natural Resource Management in Australia
Natural Resource Management has been fostered and developed in Australia over the past two decades by a number of Government programs, both Commonwealth and State, and through regional and local initiatives.
Funding assistance and support has been directed to hundreds of natural resource management projects and has encouraged broad community involvement: marshalling the commitment of community groups, land holders and land managers, all three tiers of government, and bodies dedicated to NRM program delivery.
More information can be found at the
Australian Government's NRM website.
Tasmanian NRM Framework and Legislation
Tasmania has adopted an approach to natural resource management that aims at bringing together
industry
resource users
land managers
conservation interests
The Tasmanian Natural Resource Management Framework 2002 and the
Natural Resource Management Act 2002, provide a structure and mechanisms for delivering effective management of natural resources in the State.
Regional NRM organisations in Tasmania