The National Parliamentary Friends of Landcare was launched at Parliament House earlier this week, and is set to provide a boost to groups in Canberra and across the country.

Members of the newly-established bipartisan group include NSW senator Perin Davey and Victorian senator Raff Ciccone.

Landcare ACT chief executive Karissa Preuss said the set up of the parliamentary group was a major step forward for the organisation.

"Landcare has largely been a grassroots program, and it has been very much driven by grassroots support," she said. "This is incredible recognition and is about strengthening the relationship that government has with land carers."

Similar parliamentary friend groups have already been established for Landcare at a state level, such as one in the NSW parliament which was launched in 2015.

Chief executive of the National Landcare Network Jim Adams said the concerns of people involved with Landcare at a grassroots level would now be able to be heard by the federal government.

"The most significant thing is that it is non-partisan and that it represents a wide level of distribution and support of the landcare movement in national parks," Mr Adams said.

"Since the set up of the National Landcare Network, there's been the recognition that there should be an opportunity for more formal support and acknowledgement.

"The parliamentary group has a number of opportunities, one being the understanding of the significance of work of the movement being shared by the parliament and including opportunities to visit the field to see what Landcare does."

One of the environmental groups as part of the national network includes the Mt Taylor Park Care Group, which helps to look after the grassland and protect the threatened species in the area.

Its co-convener Kathy Eyles said the new parliamentary group would help to bolster the profile of some of the species at risk near Mt Taylor.

"One of the critical things is that there is a groundswell of community working away to look after these areas, and we mostly do that with limited resources," she said.

"By having national politicians that are aware of these groups that operate in rural and urban areas, it's critical to raise awareness for funding and for the management of species."

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