Cute video alert: Sharing the Junior Landcare love

To celebrate, it is inviting all children to share what they love most about the environment, and the steps they are taking to protect it, by writing Love Letters to the Land.

To kick off the project, two children are happy to share their love letters with readers: Frankie Moloney-Martin, 11, from Bendigo, Victoria; and Owen Harris, 8, from Yeppoon, Queensland.

Junior Landcare has long recognised the vital role children and young people play in caring for the environment.

ABC presenter and Junior Landcare ambassador Costa Georgiadis says the Love Letters to the Land campaign encourages children across the country to sit, reflect and connect with the natural world around them.

Landcare Australia says today's children face up to seven times as many extreme weather events as people born in the 1960s experienced. For children to become passionate environmental advocates, they must first develop a genuine connection with nature.

"When we connect with nature; when we understand and when we love nature, then the next step is that we want to step up to protect it," Costa said.

"For me, this campaign is about getting kids to take the time to observe how incredible nature is - from the local community park, beach or bushland to your backyard veggie patch or the plants on your balcony.

"I'm always inspired by the opportunities Junior Landcare provides children to engage with nature and can't wait to hear from children themselves about the everyday actions they're taking to step up for the planet."

To help schools, youth groups and families get started with their Love Letters to the Land, Junior Landcare has created a starter kit with a curriculum-aligned letter-writing activity, special letter templates and ideas of what to do with letters once they have been written, from posting them to sister schools to sharing them with your local MP.

For added inspiration, sample love letters from Costa and other notable figures will be shared throughout National Biodiversity Month (September) and Mental Health Month (October).

These include letters from:

Children are also invited to share their letters via Junior Landcare's website for a chance to receive a visit from Costa to their school or youth group.

The Top 25 letters will also be published online on the ACM Agri websites The Land, Queensland Country Life, North Queensland Register, Stock & Land, Stock Journal, Farmonline and Farm Weekly.

"With the intensifying impacts of climate change, we need to prepare and support the next generation to feel empowered to take action for our natural environment," Landcare Australia CEO Shane Norrish said.

"This starts by giving children an opportunity to learn first-hand how they can care for the environment and biodiversity around them; understand where their food comes from; understand waste management and immerse themselves in First Nations perspectives.

"One small step in their local patch will lead to many small steps that will make a large and lasting impact.

"In addition to the curriculum-linked activities available in the Junior Landcare Learning Centre that have been designed to help bring environmental education into classrooms, campaigns such as this one allow us to recognise the contribution children can make when it comes to caring for our natural assets.

"This includes positively influencing those around them, and the benefits this can yield for the safe future of our land."