The 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award
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The Bob Hawke Landcare Award is a prestigious national award that publicly recognises an individual, group or organisation that has been involved in championing landcare and inspiring others to take action on their property or in their community. The award acknowledges the remarkable commitment to caring for the land with improved sustainable land management practices, and promotional efforts to share their knowledge with others.
For the first time, this prestigious $30K national award is now accepting nominations from groups and organisations, in addition to individuals.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award accepts nominations from individuals, groups or organisations who have demonstrated leadership and a commitment to natural resource management and sustainable land management practices through:
- actively shaping and guiding innovative farming systems to improve sustainability and the quality of ecosystem services
- encouraging action and championing the uptake of more sustainable agriculture practices among landholders, farmers and primary producers
- creating awareness of the benefits of landcare to actively caring for the land
- mentoring and/or inspiring others to adopt best practice conservation land management practices to restore, enhance and protect the natural environment
- demonstrating an outstanding commitment to responding to environmental challenges into actionable, community-led solutions for biodiversity conservation, supporting threatened species and/or improved sustainable agriculture.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award recipient will be awarded a grant package to the value of $30,000 (ex GST) for further development of their knowledge and skills in sustainable land management to enable an even stronger contribution to landcare.
The winner of the 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award will be announced at the National Landcare Awards Gala dinner on Tuesday 23 September, 2025. The prize includes a travel and accommodation package to attend the awards event.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award is funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Landcare Australia Limited administers the Bob Hawke Landcare Award on behalf of the Australian Government.
The Bob Hawke Landcare Award acknowledges the role of former Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Bob Hawke AC, played in elevating landcare from a grass-roots community initiative to a national movement with enduring bi-partisan government support.
In 1989, Bob Hawke declared that 1990 would initiate the Decade of Landcare and he asked the community to join in efforts to achieve an ecologically sustainable future. Bob Hawke continued to champion the landcare movement and Landcare Australia until his passing in 2019.
Nominations for the 2025 Bob Hawke Award will open on Monday 19 August and close on Saturday 31 December, 2024.
Visit the Bob Hawke Landcare Award Website HERE
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