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The Eastern Riverina Landcare Network represents Landcare groups surrounding the centres of Henty, Lockhart, The Rock and Mangoplah with an area of over 350,000ha of highly productive dryland farming area in the wheat/sheep belt.

As a conservation and natural heritage network, EcoNetwork has proactive policies to help to conserve both terrestrial and marine environments and to address the excesses of development and governments.

ECOS is regarded as one of Australia´s most authoritative magazines on sustainability, published since 1974 by Australia’s national scientific research agency, CSIRO.

ErinEarth, "walking lightly on the earth", is an environmental education house and garden on half a hectare of land in central Wagga Wagga.

Eurobodalla Landcare consists of 35 groups with approximately 300 volunteers involved in a variety of activities including Rivercare, Dunecare, Coastcare, Bushcare and Creekcare programs to provide for the diversity of the Eurobodalla's miscellaneous landscapes.

The Environmental Trust is an independent statutory body established by the NSW government to support exceptional environmental projects that do not receive funds from the usual government sources. The Trust is empowered under the Environmental Trust Act 1998, and its main responsibility is to make and supervise the expenditure of grants. The Trust is administered by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW).

The Trust is chaired by the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment. Members are the Director-General of DECCW and representatives from the Local Government and Shires Associations, the Nature Conservation Council and NSW Treasury.

Objectives
The objectives of the Environmental Trust are:

•to encourage and support restoration and rehabilitation projects
•to promote research into environmental problems of any kind
•to promote environmental education in both the public and private sectors
•to fund the acquisition of land for the national parks estate
•to fund the declaration of areas for marine parks and for related purposes
•to promote waste avoidance, resource recovery and waste management (including funding enforcement and regulation and local government programs)
•to fund environmental community groups
•to fund the purchase of water entitlements for the purpose of increasing environmental flows for the State's rivers and restoring or rehabilitating major wetlands.