Rehydrating landscapes through communities of practice
Working with land managers at a catchment scale to improve water cycling and manage climate risk
The ‘Communities of Practice Project (CoPP)’ is led by Mulloon Institute and involves working with land managers around Australia to strategically improve water cycling and manage climate risk.
The project is designed as a collaboration between the Institute and NRM partners to foster the growth of local ‘communities of practice’ in five regions around Australia that will continue beyond the project period. Over two years, Mulloon Institute staff will lead a series of activities that build participants’ capacity to plan, design and undertake landscape rehydration projects using low-risk, nature-based solutions for drought resilience.
Find out more about the project here.
Project Partners
This project is led by the Mulloon Institute in collaboration with with regional partners. Soils for Life’s role is the development of landscape rehydration case studies. This project has received funding from the Future Drought Fund.
Stories of landscape rehydration
Soils for Life will produce a case study on the Community of Practice Project (CoPP) located in northern NSW, and on rehydration ‘trailblazer’ Charlie Maslin.
Watch this space as we document the growth in the community of practice surrounding the Swan Brook catchment in northern NSW.
Communties in action
The greatest benefits can be achieved when communities of land managers work together to address problems at a catchment scale. The Northern Tablelands Communities of Practice group is made up of farmers from the Swan Brook catchment and beyond, GWYMAC Landcare, Swan Vale Landcare, Northern Tablelands Local Land Services and the Mulloon Institute. The group recently came together at a Boots on the Ground event in May 2024 where they helped fellow farmer and project participant, Codie Law, build a few simple landscape rehydration interventions on his Swan Vale property, Yarrawa Park. Each land manager is working on their own rehydration project, supported by project partners and events.
Watch this space as we document the growth in the community of practice surrounding the Swan Brook catchment.
This project is supported by the Mulloon Institute, through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.
Updates & events
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