A number of large-scale linkage projects have been initiated in Australia. These commence with a focus on securing the conservation status of the component lands and progress to actively restoring habitats in cleared areas to improve connectivity.<\/p>\n
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Features that can increase connectivity include continuous wildlife corridors, ‘stepping stones’ and buffer zones around existing habitat areas.<\/p>\n
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Lessons and Limitations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Examples of major terrestrial programs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n (Information on component projects is available on the following major project websites)<\/p>\n Gondwana Link is a collaborative, large scale program aiming to reconnect 1000km of healthy and resilient country across south-western Australia. It builds on many decades of conservation work, with over 900km of bushland already in place, and includes direct seeding and replanting substantial areas of degraded land.<\/p>\n Gondwana Link includes examples of restoration planning<\/a> and implementation, including the identification of reference ecosystems.<\/p>\n https:\/\/gondwanalink.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n ALSO SEE https:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/06\/defining-reference-communities-for-ecological-restoration-of-monjebup-north-reserve-in-gondwana-link\/<\/a><\/p>\n The GER draws together over 180 community, industry, government and non-government organisations to promote landscape-wide connectivity along 3,600kms of Australia\u2019s longest chain of mountainous landscapes from Victoria to Queensland. <\/p>\n 3. Habitat 141,<\/strong> south-eastern Australia<\/p>\n Covering 18 million hectares across Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, and incorporating two national biodiversity hotspots, Habitat 141 is restoring connectivity at a landscape scale in the heavily fragmented Australian wheat-sheep zone.<\/p>\n The distinctive configuration of wilderness areas spanning a 700km north-south gradient provides one of the best opportunities to reconcile historic over-clearing for agriculture, and assuage the future impacts of climate change, and underpins our long-term restoration vision. AND As a result of public and private land acquisition and covenanting, the area of grasslands conserved and managed within this Protected Area Network in Victoria has grown from virtually nothing in the mid-1990s to be in excess of 10,000ha. AND<\/p>\n https:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/07\/victorian-northern-plains-grasslands-protected-area-network-formation-and-future-management\/<\/a><\/p>\n Located in one of Australia\u2019s 15 \u201cBiodiversity Hotspots\u201d the Midlands Restoration Project is a landscape-scale environmental restoration initiative designed to increase connectivity and biodiversity in the Northern Midlands, an area with a long history of agricultural production. The aim is to restore 6,000ha in two wildlife corridors across the Northern Midlands. ALSO SEE https:\/\/www.bushheritage.org.au\/places\/midlandscapes?srsltid=AU7gw4XFwxPaeODv7xduj5HlugBiXqGA-E9YLhJhGkMeqZK7ZpWaUrrT<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additional examples<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Travelling Stock Routes rehabilitation<\/strong>, New South Wales<\/p>\n Once used by pastoralists when droving sheep to market, these areas are still used for grazing by landholders. As they are some of the best remaining examples of regional ecosystems in the agricultural landscape, they are now being managed to optimise both native ecosystem management and grazing. <\/p>\n More than just a Long Paddock<\/strong> <\/p>\n Marra Creek waterponding<\/strong>, New South Wales <\/p>\n Box gum woodland update<\/strong> <\/p>\n Grey Crowned Babbler landscape restoration<\/strong>, Victoria <\/p>\n Examples of major aquatic restoration programs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Great Barrier Reef<\/strong>, Queensland<\/p>\n This has demonstrated the success of the restoration approach of relying upon spontaneous natural regeneration. <\/p>\n Reef Builder \u2013 a national program to rebuild Australia\u2019s lost shellfish reefs<\/strong><\/p>\n This is Australia’s largest marine restoration initiative to date \u2013 aiming to restore lost native shellfish reef ecosystems establishing 13 projects across Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland. A number of large-scale linkage projects have been initiated in Australia. 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\n1. Gondwana Link, <\/strong>Western Australia.<\/p>\n
\nreference ecosystems<\/p>\n
\n2. Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, <\/strong>east coast Australia<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/ger.org.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.greeningaustralia.org.au\/projects\/habitat-141\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/media.wix.com\/ugd\/13798c_34940a4e48a0472ead1085c33f76f05f.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. Victorian Northern Plains Grasslands Protected Area Network<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/grassyplains.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n
\n5. Tasmanian Midlands Restoration Project, <\/strong>Tasmania<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/emr.12522<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/06\/learning-from-the-coreen-tsrs-and-scaling-up-biodiversity-recovery-works-at-hundreds-of-sites-in-the-riverina-nsw-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/30\/more-than-just-a-long-paddock-fostering-native-vegetation-recovery-in-riverina-travelling-stock-routes-and-reserves-update-of-emr-feature\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/21\/waterponding-the-marra-creek-nsw-rangelands-update-of-emr-feature\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2019\/06\/27\/long-term-restoration-in-the-box-gum-woodlands-of-south-eastern-australia-update-of-emr-feature\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/24\/2527\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/05\/conserving-and-restoring-biodiversity-of-the-great-barrier-reef-through-the-representative-areas-program-rap\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/emrprojects.wordpress.com\/2026\/09\/30\/reef-builder-a-national-program-to-rebuild-australias-lost-shellfish-reefs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"