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Centre Land Watch (CLW) is a pastoralist-driven monitoring project based in Central Australia. The industry employs a project officer to provide quality extension support so that pastoralists can get the most out of their monitoring. The project aims to take the fear out of monitoring by introducing "first timers" to the concept in a non-threatening way. Pastoralists who are already experienced at monitoring work with the project officer to hone their skills and add more rigour to their system. Time is taken to determine what skills individual pastoralists are seeking and what they want to get out of their monitoring activities. Centre Land Watch is different to most schemes because it customises the monitoring activity to suit the interests and confidence of individual pastoralists.