Threatened Species Conservation Hub

To enhance and connect biolink initiatives and foster connections between people and place, Biodiversity Legacy is implementing a strategy to protect rare, threatened, endangered, cultural, keystone and icon species.

A dedicated coordinator has been appointed to build relationships, collect and synthesise knowledge and advance on-ground projects. To overcome limitations of habitat and species within ecologically-artificial boundaries, the aim is to connect actions across tenures and engage with interdisciplinary partners such as Odonata and Wildlife Unlimited as well as government/non-government organisations.

We approach threatened species protection from two levels:

– Our bottom-up approach is about empowering communities to have a deep sense of agency, ownership and responsibility for the environment, now and into the future. We support these communities in identifying icon and threatened species, which can then become flagships for their campaigns and help funnel support and resources where they are needed.

– Our top-down approach uses a detailed landscape level map to identify areas of priority based upon the intersection of biodiversity hotspots, culturally significant areas and social/economic opportunities. These areas of priority are integrated with existing biolink visions.

First major project

With the support of the Rendere Environmental Trust, in 2024, Biodiversity Legacy launched the Threatened Species Conservation Hub, with the lead project being a Spot-tailed Quoll Recovery Program in East Gippsland, one of the last strongholds of the species. If you are interested in collaborating, please visit the Quoll site for further information.