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There's a bit of a catch at the heart of a recent ABC Science article by Peter de Kruijff: fire is both the thing that saves some of our wildflowers and the thing that can wipe them out. It all comes down to timing, and climate change is messing with the clock.

Our new donation page enables the community to directly support local tree planting, nest box installation, and nature education programs.

The results of the 2026 National Landcare Week Survey have put some numbers around something many of us involved in Landcare already know: Landcare is good for people as well as the environment.

Discover how the 12 principles of permaculture can help us create more resilient, productive and sustainable gardens and properties — and find out how you can explore them at our upcoming workshop.

This National Landcare Week, we're celebrating a year of revegetation, nest box builds, weed control and community learning across Mansfield Shire — and the volunteers and groups who make it all happen.

Right now an interesting orchid group is putting on a show. The greenhoods are flowering, and if you know where to look, they're well worth seeking out on your next bushwalk.

Australia already has a long list of threatened and declining woodland birds. For a species already down to small, fragmented populations, mass mortality on a seabird colony scale isn't required to do real damage; even scattered losses can matter when numbers are already thin on the ground.

Revegetation isn't just about the plants you put in the ground. It's also about protecting and celebrating what's already there — including the small, extraordinary things that are easy to walk straight past.

By the end of this planting season, almost 400 indigenous grasses, shrubs, and trees will have been established across the property — a significant investment in the land that will pay dividends for decades to come.

As part of the thirtieth National Tree Day, (Sunday July 27) Up2Us gathered the troops and turned up at Paxton’s Reserve (end of Paxton’s Lane near the Buller Road) with lots of trees (500) and lots of people of all sizes (60?).

The Mansfield Men's Shed has partnered with Up2Us Landcare Alliance to build nest boxes destined for these fire-scarred landscapes, giving displaced wildlife somewhere safe to shelter and breed while the bush slowly regenerates.

The Victorian Government is continuing its $146.5 million Drought Support Package, helping farmers and rural communities move into recovery and plan for the seasons ahead.

Mansfield Primary's grade five students got hands-on with local wildlife this week, spotting possums in nest boxes, a sleeping brushtail in a natural hollow, and even a mystery hatched egg, all part of a hands-on lesson in why tree hollows matter.

On their way up to a few days on Mt Stirling, Frankston High School's VCE Outdoor Education students made a worthwhile stop at Mullum Wetlands, where our Up2Us team was waiting to give the Year 11 and 12 cohort a hands-on introduction to Landcare in action.

Four days. All the trees. All the shrubs. Most of the grasses. That's no small feat, and it speaks to just how achievable revegetation can be when landholders have the right support behind them.

Up2Us has received funding to partner with seven Landcare networks, scaling up a proven training model across the Goulburn Broken and Ovens Murray regions to equip 150 tertiary students with hands-on skills in natural asset farming and drought resilience.

This winter's issue of Victorian Landcare and Catchment Management magazine is a special one, marking 40 years since Landcare began in Victoria back in 1986.

This year, four-year-old groups from Mansfield Kindergartens Earth Kinder program joined Up2Us across two sessions to plant and guard 60 indigenous plants along a dedicated patch beside the Earth Kinder site.

Upper Goulburn Landcare Network is calling for volunteers to help with Fencers Without Boundaries, their fire recovery fencing project supporting landowners in the Murrindindi and Mansfield Shires affected by the Longwood Fires.