Landscape rehydration curriculum

In the last Resilience newsletter, we reported on the ‘education blitz’ that launched TMI’s five year ‘Landscape Rehydration Capacity Building’ project, funded by the NSW Environmental Trust. 

This project was inspired by the extraordinary number of inquiries TMI receives from communities seeking landscape rehydration education, tools and strategies. TMI is keen to build on the achievements of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative* to support other landholder groups to embark on their own catchment-scale projects. 

Since the education blitz, members of the team have begun mapping out the components of a Landscape Rehydration Curriculum that could serve the needs of school students right up to advanced natural resource management professionals. 

As part of this process, Pete Hazell and Laura Fisher have been engaging with landowners in the majestic Capertee Valley in the Central West of NSW. We have had some fascinating and generative conversations about a potential community-led project in a sub-catchment within the Valley. 

The team are now working out how we might support local landowners on this journey. The goal will be to trial newly designed educational resources within that process, resources that will eventually form part of TMI’s Landscape Rehydration Curriculum.

*The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is jointly funded through the Mulloon Institute and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.