JALIIGIRR Biodiversity Alliance is celebrating six years of the NSW Environmental Trust funded Bush Connect program.

The ‘Jaliigirr Landscape Connections in the Great Eastern Ranges’ project has restored and protected twelve biodiversity conservation sites within identified priority areas of the Coffs-Bellinger-Dorrigo region.

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The project has extended and improved the connectivity of our natural landscapes and added to the achievements of the Great Eastern Ranges program.

Justin Couper, Jaliigirr Project Manager, told News Of The Area, “The focus of on-ground works has been on ecological restoration with some areas of revegetation.

“Over six years 72 ha of bush regeneration has occurred in a 160 ha project area and 5,300 trees/shrubs have been planted across 5.3 ha.

“Additionally, 15+ bush regenerators were employed each year of the project.

“These activities have been complemented with capacity building activities – to restore essential and viable habitats for forest-dependent fauna.”

Works locations included Coffs Harbour and Districts’ Local Aboriginal Land Council repair to country priority sites and the Dorodong Corporation Indigenous Protected Area.

All projects sites are connected to the World Heritage Area of the region through a mosaic of land tenures including private landholder communities, Junuy Juluum, Bindarri, Dorrigo National Parks, Tuckers Knob, Pine Creek and Orara East State Forests.

Jaliigirr Bush Connect project delivery partner Jason Page, a coordinator at Envite Environment said, “This program has given Envite Environment the opportunity to collaborate with Jaliigirr project partners, together with land managers, on improving landscape connections in our region.

“By targeting key threatening processes such as weed invasions, biodiversity conservation work is all about protecting all organisms and species within their natural habitats with the aim of ensuring intragenerational and intergenerational equity.”

This project was funded for six years by the NSW Environmental Trust with further monitoring and maintenance by land managers and landholders over the next four years.

By Andrea FERRARI