Event Type
Landcare Region
BCT Region
from Western Landcare's website
Community Conservation Conversation Camp
Location: Kinchega National Park
Date: 14th-15th June, 2025
Join Us for a Unique Outback Experience at Kinchega National Park!
Western Landcare NSW is excited to bring the landcaring community together for a FREE event in the historic Kinchega National Park. Connect and converse about Biodiversity & Conservation in the Western Region over two days of community conversation.
This family-friendly weekend camp welcomes landholders, land managers, and landcarers eager to engage in meaningful conversations around the campfire and beyond.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and share in a truly unique setting.
Arrival:
Friday 13th June
Set up your campsite anywhere around the beautiful Kinchega National Park and ease into a relaxing start to the Western Landcare NSW Community Conservation Conversation Camp. The program will kick off near the historic Kinchega Shearers’ Quarters.
Program:
Saturday 14th June (Starting at 8:00am AEST)
- Welcome & Smoking Ceremony
- All day bush tucker by David Doyle’s Wontanella Catering (must register).
- Introductions & camp program schedule.
- NRM Tech Talks.
- Junior Landcare games and activities for the kids.
- Guest speaker – Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT).
- Q&A forum around the campfire – Biodiversity & Conservation: What’s happening around the Far West?
- Book your Kinchega National Park tour.
- Free time with family & friends to connect & explore.
- Outdoor screening – ABC’s ‘The Kimberley’.
- Live music by local band, Fire Bucket.
- Broken Hill Outback Astronomy presents ‘The Stars of Kinchega’.
Sunday 15th June (9:00am – 3:00pm AEST)
- More bush tucker by Wontanella Catering.
- Junior Landcare games and activities for the kids.
- Trivia Q&A around the campfire – Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture.
- Guest speakers including David Doyle, Barbara Quayle and Tannya Quayle.
- Open mic – Bush poetry, stories, songs and more…
What you need to do:
- REGISTER NOW to secure your place for this event at Kinchega National Park.
- Book your campground at: https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/kinchega-national-park or other camping locations and accommodation at Menindee. BYO camping gear – caravans/camp trailers welcome.
- Pack a torch, hat, water bottle, gloves, warm clothing, bedding and please remember your camp chair!
- Bring food, snacks and drinking water – bush tucker catering available (must register).
- Let us know if you’d like help with travel expenses – fuel vouchers available.
- There are also limited bunk beds available in the Shearers’s Quarters (6 beds per hut). Please enquire with us regarding availability and bookings if you wish to secure Shearers Quarters accommodation.
- Sorry, no dogs permitted in NSW National Parks.
For further information, please email: rlc@westernlandcarensw.com.au or call 0431 452 752.
About the Western Landcare NSW Community Conversation Camps
Western Landcare NSW invites landcaring stakeholders to co-design future Community Conversation Camps with us!
WLNSW are planning a series of Community Conversation Camps at different locations across our vast Western Region. Camps can focus on any theme you like… Carp Catching, Rehydrating Rangelands, Muster Dog Training… choose your topic and get in touch with our team!
FREE family-friendly camps for landholders, land managers and landcarers intend to:
- Bring remote residents together for fun, informative activities and meetings in nature.
- Invite local businesses and organisations to co-design and co-host a range of outback adventures for all ages.
- Provide professional facilitation to ask questions and share diverse perspectives.
- Create offline community engagement opportunities that help family members to re-connect and meet other families.
- Explore the latest science on the health benefits of taking time in nature with others.
- Provide guided tours around our best National Parks and areas of conservation.
- Present traditional stories from the land and the stars!
- Support local entertainers – live music, bush poetry and more…
- Support local caterers – including bush tucker – where available.
PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION MATTERS
Landcare NSW and the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust are working together to raise awareness and support private land conservation efforts across the state.
Event Topics
Event Outcomes
Website
WLNSW website – CCC25 tab currently showing will eventually be stored under Events tab.
BCT have permission to use photos taken by NViro Media and Andrew Hull that are featured here:
https://www.westernlandcarensw.com.au/ccc25/
Radio
In the weeks leading up to the CCC25 event, I attended four radio interviews to promote it:
ABC Broken Hill Radio
27th May
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brokenhill-mornings/mornings/105331902 (start 1:43:00)
12th June
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brokenhill-mornings/mornings/105392496 (start 1:45:40)
2WEB FM Outback Radio
Interview - 100,000 audience across Western Region
28th April - 
cp-wllc - agm- converstation camps - mel gates 28 4 25.mp3
6th June - cp-wllc - kinchega - mel gates 6 6 25.mp3
Newspaper
1 pre-event article (attached – including BCT plug)
3 x Broken Hill Times post event newspaper articles (attached)
Promotional Materials
1x poster and 1x flyer (attached)
WLNSW posted two post-event posts
BCT have permission to use any photos from the WLNSW Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/westernlandcarensw/photos
As the week winds down following Western Landcare’s inaugural Community Conversation Camp, I’d like to take this opportunity to share a few Broken Hill Times articles and say THANK YOU for helping to create such an informative and respectful gathering of landcarers at Kinchega National Park.
Our team are already discussing the next event, so we’d very much appreciate you all taking 5 minutes to fill out the attached Participant Evaluation Form, if you haven’t already done so. This will help us to understand how we can improve future events…
I’ve attached DCCEEW sourced information around the 30x30 United Nations initiated conservation targets. If you are interested in continuing this conversation with others, please let me know and I will endeavour to connect you all for an online session.
If there is someone you’d like to connect with but didn’t manage to get their details, please email admin@westernlandcarensw.com.au (cc’d) and we’ll put you in touch.
Here are a few contacts we have approval to share:
Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT)
Glenn Harpley
0497 067 765
Steve Johnstone
ROSJ Wholesales Pty Ltd (Pest Management)
0409 201 836
And Jason Manning
J&C Vertebrate Pest Management
(contact via Steve)
Tony & Colleen Eldridge
Security & Night Vision Solutions
0419 152 192
Marcus Ehrlich
Ninox Robotics
Marcus.ehrlich@ninox-robotics.com
0408 991 563
John Twohill
Treefera
0490 492 420
Linda and Travis Nadge
Broken Hill Astronomy
0427 055 225
Greg Hayes
Fire Bucket – Band
0438 881 901
David Doyle
Wontanella Catering & Tours
0418 148 729
Paris Capell
Western Local Land Services
Natural Capitol Advisor
0492 337 069
To reach out to any of our wonderful Western Landcare NSW team, go to:
https://www.westernlandcarensw.com.au/contact/
Thanks again for your participation in these important community conversations, and please keep an eye out on our socials and website for videos and photos…
This brings me to a very special THANK YOU to the team from NViro Media and Andrew Hull for capturing Western Landcare NSW in action. I’d also like to give a shout out to Em Jensen for all the local newspaper articles, and Andrew Drane of Bush Media who worked diligently behind the scenes to get the word out about this event… apparently we “bombarded” Facebook with ads 😊
Be sure to keep the conversations going…
Speakers at the Conservation Camp were interviewed by local journalists
