The Great Eastern Ranges corridor stretches from the Grampians in Victoria to far north Queensland.
They are the mountainous ranges and escarpments of eastern Australia – including the Great Dividing Range and Eastern Escarpment – separating Australia's eastern coastal fringe from the plains and the interior. They are the backyard to our cities; places we visit for recreation and to restore our spirits.
They are home to many of Australia’s treasured areas of World Heritage, National Parks, alpine areas, forests, woodlands and rainforests. They store carbon in their vast forests, breathing out oxygen we breathe in. They contribute to our prosperity by sustaining agriculture, tourism and industry. They are a refuge for our richest biodiversity. They are the source of our clean water, catching and filtering the rain that feeds into our rivers and dams, providing drinking water for our cities.
They are part of us.
One of the world’s largest conservation corridors is being established along the corridor through the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative.
Latest News
- Biodiversity Fund Success!
- 17 May 2012
- Last Friday Federal Minister for the Environment the Hon Tony Burke MP announced the results for the first round of the Clean Energy Future Biodiversity Fund. The Biodiversity Fund is aimed at supporting landholders to undertake projects that will establish, restore, protect or manage biodiverse carbon stores. These projects will improve the resilience of Australia’s unique species to the impacts of climate change, establish new native vegetation and restore habitats in targeted areas of the landscape. The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative (GER) was incredibly successful, receiving funding for three of the four bids submitted by our Regional Partnerships, as well as being mentioned in several other successful applications, which will also greatly contribute to the GER vision. In total these amounted to more than $25 million over the next six years.
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- Two on the Great Divide
- 16 May 2012
- Did you catch us on 'Two on the Great Divide' on ABC? Following the success of 'Two Men in a Tinnie' Tim Flannery and John Doyle are once again off on a long journey through Australia, this time following the Great Dividing Range from Victoria up through New South Wales and Queensland to the Torres Strait. Along this journey they interviewed Ian Pulsford from the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative about the vision and challenges of creating a continental scale biodiversity corridor. Watch it now!
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- Exciting News for K2C!
- 30 April 2012
- K2C has received the exciting news that it is one of four projects to receive Myer Foundation Grassland funding. Over three years, $200,000 will be provided to establish a K2C Grassland Conservation Management Network (CMN) and to contribute to a booklet on grassland management.
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- New funding announced for the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
- 9 March 2012
- In December last year at a Connectivity Conservation Forum in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney the NSW Minister for the Environment, the Hon. Robyn Parker, made the exciting announcement that her Government had approved funding of $4.4m. for the next four years for the GER Initiative.
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- Connectivity conservation in the Southern Highlands Link
- 7 March 2012
- Arthursleigh is the flagship project in the Southern Highland Link. Encompassing 6,260 ha., owned and managed by the University of Sydney. This property near Marulan provides an essential link in the connectivity of the landscape and an opportunity to help secure Sydney’s water supply and to demonstrate how ecology and production can be integrated.
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