Friends of Junior Landcare

Junior Landcare understands that working together is the only way to try and fix our global environmental problems. Junior Landcare has many friends it works with to help kids tackle environmental problems from a local to a global scale.

To find a local landcare group visit: www.landcareonline.com

Alternatively search for a group using your postcode on the National Landcare Directory


	Firestarter Junior Landcare works with Firestarter to run Kids Teaching Kids conferences. These conferences are held Australia wide and bring together kids from many different schools and situations, allowing them to share their enviornmental knowledge and information through dance, song, drama and poetry just to name a few. The award winning conference model provides professional development for teachers as well as mentoring for students. This year Firestarter is helping Junior Landcare host its very first Junior Landcare Conference on Sydney's Northern Beaches. For more information about the conference and to visit the Firestarter website click here.

	Special Forever Special Forever is an enviornmental communications project was jointly initiated by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Primary English Teaching Association in 1993. Originally, the project was intended to run for just two years. However, it created such enthusiasm amongst schools, students and communities within the Murray-Darling Basin that it has continued on and has now run successfully for sixteen years. Every year approximately 20,000 students across the Catchment participate in Special Forever learning much about the unique environments that make up their local area and the Murray-Darling Basin as a whole. What and how they learn will continue to influence the ways in which students interact with their local environment throughout their lives. Junior Landcare provides support to the judging of the annual Special Forever Anthology. To visit the Special Forever website click here.

	Ollie's World Follow Ollie on his eco adventures around the world! Head to www.olliesworld.com for a range of great environmental education resources and lesson plans. Ollie's educational CD-ROM's are also available for purchase here.
	Parks Victoria Through effective environmental and visitor management, Parks Victoria is dedicated to preserving the natural and heritage values of the parks, bays, and waterways, including full protection of sensitive areas. Park management is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and Parks Victoria staff are well qualified to address the challenges involved in balancing protection of our natural heritage with the needs of visitors. The efficiencies of a single, fully integrated organisation enables more resources to be devoted to environmental protection and the development of visitor services. Integrated environmental policy, planning and research functions have been established to ensure that standards of excellence and efficiency are achieved. This will result in a stronger focus on conservation, driven by state of the art environmental management systems. Download their "What's on" Calendar here: http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources/whats-on.pdf