Threatened Species Strategy

To enhance and connect biolink initiatives and foster connections between people and place, Biodiversity Legacy is also developing a strategy to protect significant species. This might include rare, threatened, endangered, cultural, keystone or icon species.

A dedicated coordinator has been appointed to build relationships, collect and synthesise knowledge and coordinate the advancement of on-ground projects.

To overcome limitations of habitat and species within ecologically-artificial boundaries, we seek 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 can support communities to identify iconic and threatened species for their regions. These can become flagships for their projects or campaigns helping to funnel support and resources and act as a connector with other groups and organisations on the ground.

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.