The BNG Landcare Network has a membership of 18 Landcare and other groups, generally located across those areas of the Victorian Shires of Buloke and Northern Grampians that lie within the North Central Catchment Management Authority region.
It is roughly centered on both the catchments of the Avon-Richardson River System, and the catchments of the Upper and Middle Avoca River.
We acknowledge that our Network performs its activities on Dja Dja Wurrung and Barengi Gadjin Country. We acknowledge and extend our appreciation for the Dja Dja Wurrung and Barengi Gadjin peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the country on which we work and volunteer. We pay our respects to leaders and Elders past and present for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of all First Nations Peoples. We express our gratitude in the sharing of this Country, our sorrow for the personal, spiritual and cultural costs of that sharing and our hope that we may walk forward together in harmony and in the spirit of healing.
Our Purpose
The Network’s purpose is to:
- support community based landcare
- build sustainable rural communities
- regenerate healthy, diverse and productive environments
While its primary membership is Landcare groups, the Network works with many other groups, organisations and individuals with their work to undertake and promote:
- best practice land, water and resource management
- sustainable and profitable farming
- environmental stewardship and conservation
- community health and well-being
Our Vision
Capable, well connected, well resourced, well supported independent, autonomous groups united in a community of practice, engaged in all levels of natural resource management, and actively participating in bringing about positive resource condition change.
Our Mission
To provide the structure and pathways that will ensure all member groups within the network area have equitable access to support, information and resources; allowing groups to contribute positively to resource condition change, and to the development and self-determination of their own communities.
