Melanie J. Kelly bursary recipient (runner up) Alexandria bullen speaking about her project at the award ceremony. Women In conservation conference, nipaluna/Hobart March 5th 2026 at the Theatre Royal.

We’re proud to announce a major milestone for the Landscape Recovery Foundation (LRF) - we now hold Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.

This means all donations of $2 or more to LRF are now tax-deductible—making it easier for people to support Tasmania’s most critical landscape recovery and biodiversity projects.

winners of the Mel Kelly Bursary, announced on Thursday 6 March. Isobel Thomas from Hobart was awarded the $5000 Mel Kelly Bursary, which will fund an aerial survey of giant kelp and explore the impacts of marine heatwaves in Tasmanian waters.
There were two runners up - Jessica Willemse was awarded $1,500 for her work on blue-winged parrot detection and monitoring threatened species, and Annabelle Erskine, $500 for her project titled Red Handfish Finding via Women Diving.

This project has been underway in Kelcey Tier, northwest Tasmania since April 2021, funded by a small grant from the Communities Environmental Grant in 2020

It all begins with an idea.

There is an urgent need to better understand spatial and temporal variation in swift parrot nesting success/failure