The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative brings people and organisations together to link and protect healthy habitats over 3,600km, from Western Victoria through NSW and ACT to far north Queensland.
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The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative (GER) is a strategic response to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change, invasive species, land clearing and other environmental changes on our richest biodiversity and the mountains that supply most of our population with clean water.
The Great Eastern Ranges contain Australia's longest and most unfragmented north-south mountainous landscapes and habitats. They include vast dissected tablelands and escarpment and span major variations in rainfall, temperature, soil types, altitude and latitude.
This vast area contains Australia's richest diversity of plants and animals that depend on a wide range of habitats, including rainforests, woodlands, heaths, wetlands, herb fields and grasslands. It also contains catchments for the most reliable rainfall in eastern Australia, providing clean water to over 90% of the population of eastern Australia.
The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative is based on connectivity conservation, an approach that recognises the need for ecological processes to operate over much greater scales than previously appreciated. By assessing these processes over multiple scales and harnessing the effort of many landholders and organisations to respond strategically, we create the best conditions to preserve, restore and build resilience in our environment.
Latest News
- Funding for Landcare and other Community Groups, April 2013
- 2 April 2013
- Announcement: Calls for expressions of interest for Landcare and other community group projects now open until Friday 3 May 2013!
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- A natural corridor from Kanangra Boyd to Wyangala Dam
- 2 April 2013
- (From the Crookwell Gazette, 15 March 2013)One of the biggest habitat restoration projects in the world is working with Landcare and the wider community to protect wildlife migration pathways in the Abercrombie catchment.
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- 'S2S BioFlix 2013' amateur short film competition on 'Biodiversity'
- 13 March 2013
- The Slopes to Summit (S2S) partnership is pleased to announce the launch of the ‘S2S BioFlix 2013’, an amateur short film competition on the topic of biodiversity. We are seeking inspiring and engaging short films (up to 8 minutes) from individuals or groups which celebrate local biodiversity in the Slopes to Summit (S2S) project area in NSW, which extends from Mount Kosciuszko to Corowa along the Murray River, and north taking in the towns of Rand, Culcairn, Holbrook, and Tumbarumba. You don’t have to be a resident but the films must be shot, or depict biodiversity, in the S2S area of NSW. The films can be shot with any type of camera and in any style (documentary, photo montage, time lapse, animation, etc). They could be about a particular native animal or plant, a special natural place, or what you or someone you know is doing to conserve local biodiversity. Read more on how to enter here
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- Parks Week 2013
- 20 February 2013
- With Parks Week 2013 fast approaching, make sure you are ready to celebrate the important role our parks play. Find out what is going on in your local area by checking the list of Parks Week 2013 events herehttp://www.parksforum.org/cms/pages/Parks-Week-2013-Events.html
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- December Update
- 21 December 2012
- The Great Eastern Ranges Initiative has just released the December edition of our newsletter! Check it out here for some light and inspiring holiday reading http://eepurl.com/s3FPn Merry Christmas and safe travels to all!
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