mackellar range landcare inc

Secretary – Lakshmi Kerr
M 0459990719
E: mrlandcare@gmail.com

Mackellar Range Landcare Inc has been established to protect and enhance the high conservation value corridor or Mackellar Range running between Bungabee National Park and the Border Ranges National Park. The Mackellar Range is recognised as a significant wildlife and climate corridro. The Range is considered to host more than 20 NSW listed threatened species. 

The objectives of the group are to:

·      Protect and enhance the important biodiversity of Mackellar Range

·      Connect the communities and collaborate on Landcare initiatives 

·      Learn and share information about Landcare and the environment we live in

·      Assist participating rural landholders to undertake bush regeneration to restore native habitat and landscape

The benefits of joining Mackellar Range Landcare Inc include opportunities to apply for funding under and incorporated organisation and be covered by public liability insurance for Landcare activities. 

Mackellar Range Landcare Projects

Mackellar Range Corridors Project 2021-2023

Nsw Environment Trust Restoration and rehabilitation Grant

Valued at $96,320

The Mackellar Range Corridors Project is funded by the NSW Environmental Trust via the Restoration and Rehabilitation Program.

The project runs for three years during which the Mackellar Range Landcare group will work with 6 landholders to enhance condition and connectivity across the Mackellar Range Corridor between Bungabee National Park and the Border Ranges National Park. This project will improve native vegetation condition and resilience and habitat for native fauna across 7.3 hectares through control of invasive weeds, assisted natural regeneration and implementation of ecological burning. The project will also build local awareness of the values of this regionally significant corridor and management methodologies in this landscape.

The Mackellar Range is recognised as a wildlife and climate corridor of very high regional significance. The Range is considered to host more than 20 NSW listed threatened species and hosts a mosaic of vegetation classes including Dry Sclerophyll and Wet Sclerophyll forest along the midslopes and ridges and Dry Rainforest and Subtropical Rainforest in the gullies and riparian areas.