The Phillip Island Landcare Group was one of Australia’s first Landcare groups, established in 1987, replacing the Phillip Island Farm Tree Group. The group conducts revegetation projects under the banner of the Phillip Island Wildlife Corridor, has an Urban Landcare Program and works closely with other partners to maintain and improve the Island’s unique natural assets from weeds and pest animals.

vision

A healthy informed community working together to sustain a resilient, productive and biodiverse landscape on Phillip Island and beyond.

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COVID-19 and Landcare

The Phillip Island Landcare Group are following all directions from the State Government, relative authorities and the Bass Coast Landcare Network to be able to continue our Landcare work across the Island. Strict social distancing and increased hygiene practices have been put in place for our volunteer planting days. Please if you at all feel unwell or have come into contact with someone who has been unwell, do not come along to any Landcare community days. Thank you!
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We are excited to announce that we have been chosen by Local Clothing to be sponsored for the month of July! for more information on Local check out their website https://local.clothing/
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Click on image above to see the latest newsletter from the Phillip Island Landcare Group
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Click on the image to view the Coastcare Blitz flyer

Annual Activities 

  • Walk the Island Days – A series of walks held annually, traversing the Island and taking in its unique natural assets.
  • Bunny Boiler Annual Dinner - Held annually to highlight rabbit pest problems across the Island. This is a fun, social evening where over 100 people enjoy great entertainment from local musicians and a scrumptious dinner prepared by home cooks and professional chefs competing for fame and prizes.
  • Community Tree Planting Days – Help your local environment and meet like-minded people at an active day planting trees on local farming properties you may not have seen before.
  • Annual Awards – Highlighting the fantastic work done by members on their properties.
  • Events, field days, seminars and courses – Informative, instructional events on a range of topics from sustainable agriculture to revegetation and weed/pest control plus many more. 

Membership benefits

  • Caring for the local environment
  • Garden Advice
  • Newsletters and Seminars
  • Tours and Open Gardens
  • Indigenous plant vouchers
  • On ground support for rural members
  • Weed education and control
  • Walk the Island
  • Wildlife Corridor
  • Planting days
  • Bunny Boiler night

Click on the images on the right to download your copy of the new PILG brochure and scroll down to the bottom of this page to fill out your membership form today!

Projects

  • Wildlife Corridor
  • Urban Landcare Program
  • Rabbit and Weed control
  • Revegetation Monitoring
  • Feral Cat Management Strategy

Achievements

Since the formation of the group in 1987 some of the major achievements are:
  • Over 350,000 plants in the ground
  • Over 150 ha of remnant bush protected by fencing
  • Over 400 ha of salt affected land restored to production or the environment
  • Over 40 different Urban Landcare Seminar Days since its inception in 2003
  • Established community partnerships with major local Groups and Agencies
  • Created a calendar of annual events
  • Actively working with the Environmental Detectives program to provide school activities across the Island and San Remo

The drive towards Urban Landcare

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Initiated as a sub-group of Phillip Island Landcare in 2003 as a response to challenges and issues including; rapid and escalating population growth, development pressures on rural land, increasing and unsustainable resource use and invasions of pest plants and animals from urban areas to remnants, revegetated reserves and rural land.
​Today there are over 150 Urban Landcare members working to minimize their impact on the local environment and enjoying the same membership benefits as rural Landcare members.

Urban Landcare aims to:
  • Promote the use of indigenous plants in urban landscaping via; Indigenous demonstration gardens, open garden days, Annual Garden Awards and vouchers for indigenous plants.

Raise awareness of Landcare issues to the changing population via; A Sustainable Living guide for the Bass Coast Shire produced in partnership with the Bass Coast Shire Council, Production of educational flyers on responsible pet ownership and urban foxes with the Phillip Island Nature Parks.
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Host the popular Practical Sustainability Seminar Series. Through hosting informative seminar and workshop days sharing ideas and practical tools, participants gain a real world understanding of how to adopt environmentally sustainable principles in their own homes. Seminars have included: Sustainable Living, Energy Efficiency, Waterwise Gardening, Indigenous Garden Design, Invasive Garden Plants, Redirecting rain and grey water, Frogs of Phillip Island, Habitat gardening and many more. 

Action planning 

For the Phillip Island Landcare Group Vision, Mission, Objectives and Values please click on the Action plan photo to your right. 
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​An updated Action Plan is currently in development, watch this space. ​

Walk the Island series

Bunny Boiler 

Community Tree Planting Days

The Practical Sustainability seminar series

 Phillip Island Landcare Group membership form 

    step 1: enter your details

    step 2: Pay phillip island Landcare Group ANnual Membership Fee


    Pay the Phillip Island Landcare Group's fee by EFT to:
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    BSB: 633 000
    Acc No: 1445 851 06
    Acc Name: Phillip Island Landcare Group Inc

    Remember to enter your name so we know who it's from.

    Press the submit button to send the form to us by email.

    If paying by cheque, please make your cheque payable to the Phillip Island Landcare Group Inc then post to:

    Bass Coast Landcare Network - 2-4 Bass School Rd - Bass - VIC 3991

    Once your payment is received you will be sent a welcome email from the Phillip Island Landcare Group.