In mid-November, Noosa Landcare hosted their 2023/24 Annual General Meeting (AGM), a special event that allows us to reflect on and celebrate the valuable work undertaken by our team, partners, and community throughout the year. Each year, we declare, “It’s been another big year for Noosa Landcare!” because it truly has. We are proud to see our organisation continue to grow, along with the increasing investment in the environmental sector.
When reading the 2023/24FY Annual Report, you will see the array of projects and programs the organisation has undertaken over the past year. As Chairperson Kim Barnes puts it nicely, “it is a struggle to identify key highlights, because what would we leave out!?” We won’t try attempt to summarise the plenitude of projects undertaken during this past financial year in just a few words as it honestly won’t give it justice. We highly encourage you all to take a look at the 2023/24FY Annual Report.
A part of Noosa Landcare we cherish and are grateful for each year are our volunteers, some of which have been supporting Noosa Landcare’s work for over two decades! This year our volunteers worked over 3,577 hours across our Native Production Nursery, Keeping it in Kin Kin program, Roving Restorers working bees and our management committee.
Noosa Landcare’s humble beginnings were that of a volunteer landholder-led Landcare group. By a shared passion for restoring and caring for Noosa’s landscape, their collective vision has been instrumental in shaping Noosa Landcare into the organisation it is today. Though we are now a business, it is our community that continues to be its backbone. We thank everyone of our volunteers, including our management committee, for dedicating their time to support Noosa Landcare’s operations and vision to create an abundant, biodiverse landscape for the Noosa Region. We extend this thanks to all our financial members for investing in this organisation and joining us to learn about, restore and protect our local environment.
Cooperation is not only a mechanism that has driven ecological success of species in our natural environments but also has been fundamental in helping us achieve large scale restoration and conservation outcomes in our region. With out the participation of community and our many partners, much of what we do could not happen.
We would also like to take this moment to acknowledge our amazing team, particularly the ‘engine room’ (as General Manager, Phil Moran, likes to put it), our hardworking field crew.
We look forward to another year helping transform our local landscape!
