Connection in action
Sharing nature-inspired updates on Biodiversity Legacy activities, partnerships and connections across our wide country and diverse landscapes.
Succession planning for farming families
Biodiversity Legacy Director, Jim Phillipson, was one of 40 speakers invited to present at the GROUNDED farming festival in Tasmania. Organised by farmers for farmers interested in regenerative farming practices, Jim’s talk focused on succession planning and how to have better conversations.
Why community conservation is the missing link
Also known as greenways, green belts, shelterbelts and wildlife corridors, biolinks are an attracting concept appealing to a broad cross section of people as a visible solution to habitat fragmentation. But do they work – and what makes them work?
Helping Hands for the Sheoak
Sheoaks are the main source of food for Glossy Black Cockatoo, whose habitat was severely impacted by the East Gippsland fires. The Helping Hands project builds on recovery works already undertaken to replant and restore Sheoaks on private properties.
Last stand for Endangered tree ferns
Around 10 years ago, Stuart Inchley and Victoria Johnson stumbled across a 300+ acre property for sale in the hills of South Gippsland. It took them several years to survey the property, finding large population of Critically Endangered Slender Tree-ferns.
Making connections for icon and threatened species
Given its commitment to landscape-scale ecological protection and the development of community biolinks, it follows that Biodiversity Legacy would also consider how to protect flagship and icon species.
Protecting our coastal saltmarshes
Fringing Corner Inlet in South Gippsland are some of the most floristically diverse coastal saltmarshes in the country – marshes that capture and store carbon at rates 30-50 times higher than the equivalent area of terrestrial forests.