Biodiversity Corridor in Tasmania’s Midlands

The Midlands Restoration Program in Ross, Tasmania [Source: ABC Australia]

The Ian Potter Foundation has donated an additional $550,000 to Green Australia to construct a biodiversity corridor through Tasmania’s Midlands. This new contribution will make the foundation’s total contribution $1,000,000 — the largest landscape restoration contribution in Tasmania’s history.

All this will go towards the Midlands Restoration Program, which aims to:

• Create vegetation corridors for wildlife to move between resources 
• Preserve biodiversity 
• Remove introduced vegetation such as woody weeds and willows
• Re-establish native flora such as eucalyptus 
• Enable the flourishing of birds, bats, and small native mammals

This corridor will connect the Great Western Tiers (where Cradle Mountain is!) and eastern tiers. The project will be completed in 25 years, but perhaps we’ll see some of the preparation?

References

1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-18/huge-boost-for-project-restoring-tasmania27s-midlands-region-a/6330526
2. http://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/project/tasmanian-midlands-restoration-program