Landcare is a community based approach to the conservation of our natural resources, with its roots in the mid eighties in Victoria with the development of a number of small Farm Tree groups. It has since evolved into a nationwide partnership between the community, industry and government to promote sustainable management of land, water and living natural resources for the benefit of the whole community.
Pastoralism has played an important part in the development of the Northern Territory with pastoral lands occupying approximately 50% of the land area. These grazing lands are known as ‘rangelands’. The Soils of the Northern Territory are generally low in nutrient value resulting in low nutrient pasture; consequently for Pastoralism to be of economic value, herds and properties are necessarily large with some paddocks being 100’s of square kilometres in size.