The 2017 Victorian Landcare Awards ceremony was held at Government House on 1 September.
Resources
Winners booklet - 2017 Awards - Download (2.4 MB)
Collage of the 2017 Victorian Landcare Awards nominees - Download (1.8 MB)
Use Internet Explorer to open the collage and hover your mouse pointer over each image to view the nominee's name.
2017 Award Winners
Joan Kirner Landcare Award
Winner: Terry Hubbard
Urban Landcare Award
Winner: Blackburn and District Tree Preservation Society
Highly Commended: Friends of Lower Kororoit Creek Inc
Landcare Network Award
Winner: Connecting Country
Junior Landcare Team Award
Winner: Penbank School - Woodleigh School
Highly Commended: Bass Coast Landcare Network's Environmental Detectives Team
Australian Government Excellence in Sustainable Farm Practices Award
Winner: Woady Yaloak Catchment Group
Highly Commended: Simon Falkiner
Australian Government Innovation in Agricultural Land Management
Winner: Simon Falkiner
Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award
Winner: Ian Higgins
Highly Commended: Ian Grenda, Jim de Henin and Kaye Rodden
Commended: Penny Roberts and Ann Robson
Australian Government Partnerships for Landcare Award
Winner: Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation
Austcover Young Landcare Leader Award
Winner: Kathleen Brack
SureGro Coastcare Award
Winner: Friends of Beware Reef
Fairfax Media Landcare Community Group Award
Winner: Tarrangower Cactus Control Group
Highly Commended: 3 Creeks Landcare Group
Commended: Yarra Valley Equestrian Landcare Group
Rio Tinto Indigenous Land Management Award
Winner: Angela Jeffery
Highly Commended: Waka Walla Land Management Crew
Commended: Windamara Aboriginal Corporation
Victorian Farmers Federation/Landcare Victoria Inc. Heather Mitchell Memorial Fellowship
Winner: Sandii Lewis
Dr Sidney Plowman Travel and Study Award
Winner: Bret Ryan
Highly Commended: Tony Gardiner and Kate McWhinney