Tasmanian Land Conservancy

05/06/2026

Today, we are celebrating World Environment Day 2026. This year’s theme focuses on critical climate action and ecosystem preservation.

Since 2020, TLC has trialled three climate refugia models for directing our conservation effort. Field testing showed each model's limits for guiding reserve management and helped us improve how we use climate science in our planning.

In the meantime, we have prioritised practical actions that strengthen resilience across Tasmania’s landscapes. Restoring water flows at Sloping Main Reserve helps native species adapt to climate change. Concurrently, our focus on climate resilience continues in the Central Highlands by shielding endangered cider gum saplings from heat, drought, and fire at Five Rivers Reserve.

05/06/2026

Heads up, Bruny Island covenant and Land for Wildlife members! Here's a workshop you may find useful for understanding options for managing deer on your property.

The workshop is particularly timely following the recent announcement of new feral deer management measures, including a permit that may be available where deer are impacting natural values protected under legislation or a voluntary conservation agreement, and where a Property-Based Wildlife Management Plan is in place or being prepared.

If deer are affecting conservation values on your property, this workshop may help you understand the management options available.

Join us at the Bruny Island Community Deer Management Workshop

• Understand what you can legally do and best practices to protect your land
• Learn to recognise signs of deer on your property and in your area
• Join the conversation about the future deer of management on Bruny Island

Friday, 12 June 2026
9:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Murrayfield, North Bruny

FREE EVENT, LIMITED PLACES

Register online:
🌐https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bruny-island-community-deer-management-workshop-tickets-1990457463856?aff=oddtdtcreator

Or contact Alice Grieve (NRM South) [email protected]

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03/06/2026

Many of our Land for Widlife members are linked to the Kingborough Environment Fund. The program is an innovative solution to protect and restore biodiversity on private land across the municipality. We encourage our landowners involved in private land conservation in the Kingborough area to find out more about this great program at kingborough.tas.gov.au/services/20844-2/kingborough-environmental-fund/

01/06/2026

Alert for all Land for Wildlife and covenant landholders near Triabunna: Private landholders with properties over 20 ha are eligible to attend this Red Hot Tips workshop in Triabunna to understand fuel reduction burn planning and practicalities.

A planned training burn will be held later in the month for those who attend the workshop.

Saturday 6 June 2026, Triabunna/Spring Bay RSL building. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in - please contact: Sam Tacey, Coordinator Red Hot Tips at [email protected] or 0417 153 620

Photo by Elise Jeffery.

30/05/2026

Across Lutruwita/Tasmania, grasslands and bushland that once stretched across the landscape are now broken into smaller patches – separated by fences, roads and cleared land.

When this happens, wildlife has fewer places to move, feed and find shelter.
But landholders are responding.

From gardens to farms to bush blocks, people are restoring habitat on their land. Together, these places are forming a growing network across private land.

Through Land for Wildlife, Gardens for Wildlife and WildTracker, this work now spans more than 38,000 hectares, with over 2,000 landholders involved.

Property by property, the landscape is being reconnected.

Your donation helps this work continue and grow. tasland.org.au/donate

28/05/2026

What happens when farmers and conservationists work together? 🐏🌱

In Tasmania’s Midlands, something pretty special.

Three more local farming families have joined the Midlands Conservation Partnership – helping protect another 800+ hectares of native grassland on private land.

These grasslands are incredibly rare (around 95% have already been lost), and support wildflowers, orchids and threatened wildlife.

For participating farmer Claire Headlam, farming with nature makes good business sense too.

“It’s a win-win situation,” she explained.

“There’s a financial incentive there, it’s healthy for our animals with the biodiversity. Our ultimate aim is to manage it for functionality so that everything's thriving… and we’re able to graze it.”

Learn more about the Midlands Conservation Partnership and the people making it happen via the link in the first comment. 👇

📸 Eve White
📍 Ratharney, Palawa Country, east of Woodbury, Lutruwita / Tasmania

27/05/2026

Have you ever seen a Lyrebird on your camera trap?

Lyrebirds aren’t native to Tasmania, they were introduced as an insurance population to protect the species from mainland threats like foxes. Following successful releases at Mount Field (1934) and Hastings (1945), they’ve since spread widely through our wet forests.

This new paper documents outlier records of Lyrebirds at Mt Roland in the state's north and in the Rosebery–Tullah region. These sightings could represent either an expanding front, or individuals just passing through.

By raking the forest floor in search of bugs, these beautiful birds can turn over tonnes of leaf litter each year. The ecological consequences of this disturbance are not fully understood.

So keep your camera traps out, and share your records through WildTracker. Every observation helps us understand where lyrebirds are on the move.

Read the paper: https://afo.birdlife.org.au/afo/index.php/afo/article/view/2404/2438

25/05/2026

If you're a private landholder passionate about conservation, you're already stewarding something valuable. We are pleased to be involved with three great Landcare Tasmania events happening across the state, they are a fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and pick up practical tools to support your work.

'Growing the Network: Protecting and Maintaining High Conservation Value Areas', brings together Landcare Tasmania, the Private Land Conservation Program, Tasmanian Land Conservancy, and Conservation Landholders Tasmania with land managers across Tasmania to support and strengthen the network of people caring for High Conservation Value Areas.

• 27th June at the Hobart Sustainability Learning Centre
• 18th July in North West Tasmania
• 29th August in Northern Tasmania

Find out more at landcaretas.org.au/outreach-events

Photos by Jasmine Connors.

23/05/2026

Have you seen a bat flying in your garden at dusk? Insect-eating bats (often called microbats) roost in dry, safe places like tree hollows, under bark, rock crevices, and sometimes in human-made spaces such as eaves, walls, fences, and even our homes. With only eight bat species in Tasmania, some are quietly sharing our spaces while doing an incredible job controlling insects.

The Australasian Bat Society has made a handy Bats in Buildings FAQ to help us understand how to live safely and peacefully alongside bats – check it out here ausbats.org.au/bats-in-buildings-faq.html

While we’re asleep, bats eat up to three-quarters of their body weight in insects every night - the micro bats generally weigh 4-9 grams, which is about half the weight of a fifty-cent coin!

If you are interested to learn more to support our precious bats and other wildlife in your home garden, sign up to the TLC’s Gardens for Wildlife Program here: tasland.org.au/programs/gfw/

Photo by Lisa Cawthorn.

21/05/2026

“Three resin bees are roosting” 🎶 might be fitting for a new wildlife-themed Christmas carol! Thanks to everyone who sent guesses in about what these bees are up to in this photo last week. And happy for yesterday!

Though not considered social, similar to its distant European relatives, the honeybee, resin bees congregate at dusk on plants like this juncus, holding on all night by only their mouth!

Why not share some interesting insect behaviour have you spotted in your garden?