The quiet rise of environmental extension.

Many may think that the field of agricultural extension, in which farmers and graziers are - or were - provided with advice in order to farm better, has declined, if not largely disappeared in Australia. One, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) World Heritage Area, has an international profile, has been seriously affected by adjacent land management activities and has benefitted from rural extension supported by substantial national and State government funding. Meanwhile, the New Zealand Department of Primary Industries funds extension, particularly for catchment groups, through the New Zealand Landcare Trust - a not-for-profit organisation rather different from the Australian version of Landcare - as well as some specific projects (Ministry for Primary Industries [12]). It was boosted after the federal government began the National Soil Conservation Program in 1983, in its coordinating capacity (Hannam [7]), and state governments established soil and water conservation services. [Extracted from the article]

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