Landcare advocates have had to get "sneaky" to secure funding as environmental care and restoration morphs into something more akin to a financial market.

Alison Southwell noticed the trend emerging about 2022.

"There was not the public funding of basic restoration on private land.

"It was just not possible to get funding," the executive officer of the Holbrook Landcare Network in southern NSW told the Landcare Australia conference.

But as the funding landscape changes amid the rise of natural capital markets and environmental, social, and governance-led investment, landcarers need to change too.

"We need to make sure that the good information that we hold in our heads is going to be getting to those doing the work on the ground," Dr Southwell said.

Capturing that knowledge also spar

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