Connecting communities & landscapes

Biodiversity Legacy is committed to building relationships with individuals and communities in regional areas, supporting them with information and resources to enhance local connectivity, expand networks and help communities champion the protection and restoration of their precious local landscapes.

LINKING LANDSCAPES AND COMMUNITIES

We use the term ‘community biolink’ to frame discussions about local contexts and how we can support communities with knowledge and resources to enhance biodiversity protection and landscape connectivity.

Conversations at the grassroots level help us understand what landholders and communities need in order expand their vision and see how their projects can contribute to biodiversity outcomes beyond the spatial footprint of individual properties and projects.

Our coordinators

We employ Biolink Coordinators around Australia. Acting as our ‘eyes and ears’ on the ground, they have a deep understanding of local landscapes and conservation challenges, working closely with landowners, community groups, agencies and local government bodies to understand the biolink vision for the area, strengthen networks and build capacity.

How we support local communities

By leading or engaging in activities that build links and community connections, such as:

  • networking across the not-for-profit environmental sector
  • local environmental knowledge and networks
  • general support and knowledge assistance for long-term land protection pathways
  • communications to engage the media and community
    citizen science activities
  • community regeneration projects
  • facilitate connections with environmental specialists (e.g. land managers, botanists and surveyors)
  • linking land covenantors together.

 

Meet our coordinators

Stuart Inchley

Biolink Coordinator, South Gippsland and Bass Coast

Dixie Fitzclarence

Contracts Manager and Southern NSW Biolink Coordinator

Keith Smith

Biolink Coordinator, Far North Queensland

Tim Rowe

Biolink Coordinator, East Gippsland Victoria

Robyn Edwards

Grants & Partnerships Manager and East Gippsland Biolink Coordinator

connecting NETWORKs

The Biodiversity Legacy team is connected to a wide range of conservation organisations, sharing knowledge and resources with individuals and members of leading conservation organisations, includign the Rendere Environmental Trust. Knowledge and resources are also shared through the EcoLands Collective, which includes strategically-aligned organisations, including Land Covenantors Victoria. Read more HERE.