Land Overview

Focus on protecting and enhancing land assets—including soils, vegetation, and cultural heritage—by partnering with land managers to build resilience and support sustainable landscapes and industries in a changing environment.

Arthur River–2 landscape

Protecting and Strengthening Land Assets for a Resilient Future

Land assets include the land’s shape and the soils that support farming, forestry, and natural environments, as well as the vegetation that protects these soils and cultural heritage values. Cradle Coast NRM works to protect the natural, productive, and cultural aspects of these assets and aims to strengthen their resilience to withstand current and future challenges.

The Land Theme focuses on three key areas: Healthy Country, Resilient Landscapes, and Soil and Vegetation. Within these areas, NRM organisations collaborate with land managers to promote sustainable natural and productive landscapes and industries, especially in a changing environment.

Maintaining healthy landscapes, soils, and vegetation is crucial for all ecosystems—whether they are rural or urban, water-based or land-based, domestic or wild. This shows that all Themes are closely connected, particularly in supporting essential ecosystem services.

Healthy Country

Supporting Tasmanian Aboriginal people to increase capacity to manage, access or heal Country, based on self-determined priorities.

Resilient Landscapes

Building the capacity of land managers to address the risk of adverse events, protect natural capital, and take advantage of opportunities for production industries in the face of challenges such as climate change, weeds, pests and diseases.

Soils & Vegetation

Supporting land managers to improve soil condition and manage vegetation cover to improve natural values, biodiversity, and production outcomes and mitigate emerging risks.

Current NRM Land Projects & Initiatives

Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF) 

The Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF) is a designated central contact point for farmers, landholders, industry, and community groups and will aim to:  Engage and inform farmers, landholders, community groups, and agriculture industries within their NRM region...

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Smallholder Property Management Planning (PMP) Program 

Delivering a range of practical engagement activities, this project will support small landholders in our region to improve skills, knowledge and engagement in natural resource management and associated networks. Enhancing their capacity to be able to make more...

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Tasmanian Soil Extension Program

Tasmanian Soil Extension Program

The statewide NRM Soil Extension Program will deliver extension activities that promote improved soil health. A series of workshops, field days and one-on-one support will be available to increase farmers awareness and knowledge on a range of relevant soil and land...

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