Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
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A partnership of leading conservation organisations has welcomed the allocation of $4.4 million by the NSW Environmental Trust to continue the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative.
The NSW Minister for the Environment Robyn Parker announced the grant at a conservation forum in Sydney earlier today. Parker said that the money would allow the Initiative to build on the previous good work in establishing five NSW priority partnership areas and look to developing more community based action to protect our biodiversity. The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative is a program that works with organisations and landholders to establish a conservation corridor from Victoria to far north Queensland along the Great Dividing Range and Great Escarpment.
CEO of the Initiative Rob Dunn says that the program is based on connectivity conservation, an approach that aims to keep environmental systems functional over multiple scales; sometimes continental scales, and is gaining momentum worldwide. “This Initiative recognises that by working with communities and directly with landholders we can balance a variety of land uses with needs of healthy ecosystems. It takes time to create these networks and this funding will allow us to build on the hard work and goodwill already happening in the community.”
The grant will be used to establish two new priority partnership areas and provide funding for rehabilitation of vegetation, private land protection, pest management programs and community education projects as well as ensuring the continuance of existing NSW partnerships. The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative began within the former NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change in 2007. In 2010 the Initiative moved to being a fully community led program and is now managed by four conservation organisations and the NSW Government along with a diverse network of organizations leading at the local level.
"The area covered by the Initiative contains around two thirds of our richest biodiversity and is the source of eastern Australia's clean water supply. The work we do now to maintain and improve the health of these systems is vital to all Australians. The NSW Government should be congratulated for its foresight in supporting this vision for the future” Dunn said. The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative has also begun work with interested organisations in both Victoria and Queensland to continue to fulfil the ambition of continental scale connectivity conservation.
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