Kosciuszko2Coast (K2C)
Partnerships
Organisations Involved in Partnership Activities: 10
Partnership Facilitator: Lauren Van Dyke Bush Heritage Australia
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The Kosciusko to Coast (K2C) region is an east-west band between Queanbeyan and Cooma, linking the edge of Kosciuszko National Park with the western edge of the forests running along the coastal escarpment. Stretching from Kosciuszko National Park to the south coast of New South Wales, the region occupies the greatest altitudinal sequence on the Australian continent, supporting a variety of woodland and forest ecosystems and ecological communities ranging from alpine snowfields to coastal heath and dunes.
Over the past 200 years the distribution of native grasslands and woodlands throughout the region has contracted considerably, resulting in the fragmentation of vegetation and a subsequent loss of habitat for many native animals. As a consequence, the landscape is under considerable stress with its long-term agricultural and environmental production capacity being severely reduced. On this extensive landscape of approximately 1,200 km², K2C partners are focussing on vegetation communities known to be in decline, such as Box-Gum Woodlands and Natural Temperate Grasslands (listed under NSW and/or Commonwealth legislation as endangered or threatened ecological communities).
The partnership group in this region was instigated in 2006, and has been supported by funding from the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative since 2008. The K2C partnership focuses effort on private and public lands where landholders are interested in voluntary cooperative conservation incentives and protection options. K2C is achieving great results in engaging and supporting local landholders in conservation activities.
K2C has continued to maintain and build its effectiveness through the committed partnership of 10 groups and organisations, as well as significant engagement with many other natural resource management organisations in the region. K2C has instigated direct engagement with over 100 landholders across the current operational area, has hosted and co-hosted many workshops and field days, and produces a seasonal K2C newsletter informing over 500 interested individuals.
K2C Partners
- Australian Capital Territory Government
- Bush Heritage Australia
- Friends of Grasslands
- Greening Australia
- Molonglo Catchment Group
- Nature Conservation Trust of NSW
- NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
- Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
- Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment Coordinating Committee
- Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare Committee
Further Information
- Go to the K2C website for more information.
