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Your Opportunity to Present at the 2025 National Landcare Conference! 

Got a story to tell or research to reveal? The 2025 National Landcare Conference call for abstracts campaign is NOW open for people to submit papers to be a speaker or submit a poster presentation.

This is your chance to share your ideas, projects, and passion with a national audience.
 
📅 When: Concurrent Stream Sessions will be hosted 21-23 September 2025 
📍   Where: Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Queensland 
💚 Theme: Landcare: Nature, Agriculture, Land and People Positive  

What We're Looking For
We're calling for abstracts and poster submissions across six concurrent streams: 

🌱 Nature Repair and Climate Adaptation 
Addressing the twin challenges of climate adaptation and biodiversity restoration through innovation, enabling capital, and education. 
Innovation and technology, climate change adaptation and mitigation, First Nations Traditional Knowledge, education for landholders and farmers on carbon and biodiversity nature repair markets.

💻 Technology and Innovation for Landcare 
Harnessing cutting-edge technologies and approaches for sustainable land management and restoration. 
New and emerging technologies for landscape and biodiversity restoration, First Nations Traditional Knowledge, changing use of technology in landcare.

🤝 Community-Driven Landcare 
Strengthening community resilience through partnerships, storytelling, and inclusive participation. 
Healthy people and resilient communities, partnerships, restoration, enhancement and protection of landscape, waterways and biodiversity, First Nations Traditional Knowledge, volunteering, communication and storytelling, landcare as an inclusive space. 

🌳 Restoring Biodiversity Across Landscapes 
Collaborative approaches to enhance biodiversity in rural, urban, and remote settings. 
Community partnerships in action, rural and urban environmental projects, First Nations Traditional Knowledge,sharing knowledge. 

🌾 Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Health 
Innovations for balancing productivity and ecological health on farms 
Excellence in productive and healthy landscapes, innovation and technology, First Nations Traditional Knowledge, soil health, growing young farmers. 

🚀 NextGen Landcare Summit, Sunday 21 September 2025 
We are seeking abstracts and posters for the NextGen Landcare Summit, which will be held on Sunday, 21 September. Abstract presentations for the summit should address the following: 

2025 NextGen Landcare Summit is a platform for emerging leaders to showcase fresh perspectives and how we can drive the landcare movement forward. 
Building the future of landcare through cross-sectoral partnerships, landcare as an inclusive space (multiculturalism, gender diversity, disability inclusion, neurodiversity), climate anxiety and promoting mental health and wellbeing, strengthening youth involvement and intergenerational knowledge sharing, inspiring stories of innovation, resilience, and leadership in landcare, career development, succession planning, First Nations Cultural connection and succession, engaging young people in landcare in remote areas, barriers and opportunities to engaging young people, the changing use of technology in landcare including social media, and trends and motivations for young people to volunteer.  

Those eligible to submit abstracts or posters are: 
•    Volunteers 
•    Farmers, primary producers and farming systems groups 
•    Agricultural co-operatives, industry associations, suppliers 
•    Landcare groups, networks, and volunteers 
•    Landcare facilitators and coordinators 
•    Traditional Owners, First Nations organisations, First Nations land and sea Rangers and managers 
•    Bushcare, 'Friends of', Coastcare, Rivercare, Dunecare, Wildcare and any community 'care' group   
•    Landholders 
•    Natural resource management agencies 
•    Government agencies  
•    Research agencies and universities 
•    Junior Landcare educators (primary and secondary schools) 
•    Young adult groups 
•    Environmental not-for profits 
•    Environmental educators 

Abstracts will NOT be accepted from commercial entities. 

Poster Abstracts 
We are seeking poster exhibits to display at the conference. The posters are summaries of landcare and natural resource management projects that visually illustrate the project objectives, outcomes and learnings.  

Call for Abstracts and Poster Submission Deadline

📝 Submissions CLOSE on 17 April 2025  
All abstracts are to be submitted electronically in-line with the Submission Guidelines by 11.59 pm (AEST) on Thursday 17 April 2025. Authors may submit more than one paper.  

Call for Abstracts and Poster Submission Guidelines  

Please read the guidelines here on eligibility, more information and FAQs before submitting your abstract or poster presentation.  

To submit your abstract, click here

For more information about the 2025 National Landcare Conference please visit the event website.

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