Call for Abstracts

The 2025 National Landcare Conference is Australia’s largest knowledge sharing and networking event. The bi-annual conference provides a unique forum for landcarers and others involved in agriculture and natural resource management to explore best practice and innovation, share information and stories, create partnerships, and take new ideas back to their workplaces and communities. Presentations from the 2025 National Landcare Conference can be used for training and development purposes and help contribute to building capacity for landcare groups and communities.

Landcare Australia is seeking abstracts from individuals, groups and organisations for the stream sessions that will be hosted on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23, September 2025. 

The call for abstracts campaign is open to volunteers, landcare groups and other community-led environmental groups, Traditional Owners and First Nations organisations, land and sea Indigenous rangers, landholders and farmers, researchers and academics, government organisations, and young adults. Also eligible are organisations involved in protecting, enhancing, restoring and educating others about the natural environment in their local community through sustainable land management and conservation activities.

The theme for the 2025 National Landcare Conference is Landcare: Nature, Agriculture, Land and People Positive which affirms the inclusivity of landcare, showcasing that the landcare ethos is truly for everyone. Landcare is at the nexus of sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation, with a mobilised network of groups in communities across Australia with expertise and experience to respond to the challenges of a changing climate, and the opportunities of the emerging nature repair market.

Abstracts must align with the conference theme and focus on one or more of the following areas: nature repair, climate adaptation, restoring biodiversity, environmental conservation and land management, sustainable agriculture, partnerships, innovation and technology, mental health and wellbeing, First Nations Traditional Knowledge, communications and storytelling, volunteering, future focus of people leading landcare. 

Presentation Types

There are 3 presentation types available for submissions:

• Individual presentation
• Panel presentation
• Poster presentation

Please specify whether you would like your abstract to be considered for an individual presentation, inclusion in a panel discussion, or a poster display. The final decision on whether abstracts are selected for individual, or panel presentations is up to the committee

Stream Session Themes

There are five concurrent stream sessions, and your abstract speaker presentation should link to one of the following:

Please review the 2025 Abstract Submission Guidelines

NextGen Landcare Summit Sunday 21 September, 2025

We are accepting abstracts and posters for the NextGen Landcare Summit, which will be held on Sunday, 21 September, the day before the conference officially begins. Abstract presentations for the summit should address the following:

2025 NextGen Landcare Summit is a platform for emerging leaders to showcase fresh perspectives and how we can drive the landcare movement forward.

Building the future of landcare through cross-sectoral partnerships, landcare as an inclusive space (multiculturalism, gender diversity, disability inclusion, neurodiversity), climate anxiety and promoting mental health and wellbeing, strengthening youth involvement and intergenerational knowledge sharing, inspiring stories of innovation, resilience, and leadership in landcare, career development, succession planning, First Nations Cultural connection and succession, engaging young people in landcare in remote areas, barriers and opportunities to engaging young people, the changing use of technology in landcare including social media, and trends and motivations for young people to volunteer.

Please review the 2025 Abstract Submission Guidelines.