Emigrant Creek, Richmond Catchment
Caring for Catchments
The Caring for Catchments project aims to improve catchment health, build flood resilience, and enhance biodiversity through riparian revegetation and reforestation with the objective to restore and protect waterways by planting up to 240 hectares of native vegetation along 8 kilometres of cleared river and streambanks over the next three years.
The project is the first of its kind, attracting some of the largest grant funding for these sorts of works in Australia. North Coast Regional Landcare Network is excited to be delivering this project with funding from the Australian Government through the Northern Rivers Recovery and Resilience Program 2022-23 administered by NSW Reconstruction Authority.
Project Updates
Keep up to date on the latest information on the project’s progress, highlighting key milestones, recent achievements, and ongoing activities.
Project Goals
- Demonstration of best practice for riparian restoration, to restore catchment health and resilience.
- Compilation of data, reports, studies and other relevant information required for riparian and catchment projects to be planned and undertaken at scale, and make this information available to stakeholders.
- Building capacity to utilise and benefit from markets for environmental services, by providing education for land managers about markets for environmental services.
- Identify opportunities for education and training in repair and regeneration of the regional environment and contribute to development of this important new industry.
- Fostering cultural change around management of the environment and natural resources generally and streams and catchments in particular, in a way that contributes to social cohesion, resilience and optimism regarding our common future.
North Coast Regional Landcare Network is proud to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians and original landcarers of the land on which we live and work.
We pay our respect to elders past, present and emerging.
