Nature Refuge Landholders' Association (NaRLA)

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The website www.landcare2010.com has been closed down.

NaRLA deeply regrets that the 2010 Landcare Conference, which we were appointed by Queensland Water and Landcarers to host, design and organise, has been cancelled due to circumstances completely beyond our control. Although NaRLA was in the final stages of completion of the detailed arrangements for the conference, the organisation contracted to secure the sponsorships necessary to fund the conference, Landcare Queensland, Inc., at this late stage, has failed to raise sufficient funds, to underwrite the delivery of the conference

In a teleconference of the Conference Community Steering Committee held on 2 July, Landcare Queensland's representative advised that they could not guarantee that sufficient sponsorship funds could be raised before the conference to assure its delivery. Therefore, rather than risk the possible gross inconvenience that a later cancellation of the conference may cause many of the expected 35 expert presenters, up to 400 on-site delegates, and an unpredictable but expected additional several hundred on-line podcast registrants around Australia, the Conference Community Steering Committee agreed that the conference should be cancelled. In accordance with that agreement, NaRLA, as conference hosts, formally cancelled the conference with immediate effect.

NaRLA is greatly disappointed that the first ever Australian Landcare conference designed specifically to meet the priority needs of front-line land managers and their advisors, clearly expressed in the pre-conference design survey, and to be promulgated nationwide by podcast, was forced to be cancelled because of a failure to raise adequate sponsorship funds. That failure means that an unprecedented opportunity has been lost for delegates to listen to, interact personally with, and learn from some of Australia's leading and internationally recognised experts and successful land management practitioners. These people are in the vanguard of advances in the management and practise of proven productive, sustainable and profitable land management and income diversification strategies. (Click here for a summary of the cancelled conference program and list of speakers...)