Landscape Sustainability through Blackberry Management: emerging roles for the community- led approach and the Victorian Blackberry Taskforce?

As discussed below, our approach moves beyond the ‘community-weed model’ (as it’s commonly known in some Government agencies and other approaches to weed management – for example, the Gorse and the Serrated Tussock Taskforces). We are more concerned with a process rather than a model and we argue a truly community-led approach needs to move away from a mindset of developing technical/scientific blueprints for natural resource interventions to one which is focused on community and individual actions (supported by technical/scientific approaches where necessary and relevant). This is different to (and sometimes the opposite of) other approaches where technical and scientific interventions are ‘supported’ by communities and individuals.