TLC shares reserve management expertise at environment conference
The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand conference has taken place in Hobart this week with Daniel Sprod, TLC's landscape ecologist, presenting two papers on private land conservation in Tasmania.
Practical conservation at the landscape scale: Midlandscapes is co-authored by Daniel Sprod and Andrew Cameron from the TLC; Sebastian Burgess and Neil Davidson from Greening Australia; and Bush Heritage Australia's Matt Appleby. The paper outlines the success of the Midlandscapes program as an enduring approach to cooperative biodiversity management within a predominantly private farming context in Tasmania.
Midlandscapes, recently nominated for a Banksia Environment Award and a Tasmanian Community Award, is a partnership between organisations involved in conservation, restoration and natural resource management.
The program protects native vegetation remnants with high natural value, establishes management regimes to facilitate survival of native flora and fauna in a changing climate, and enhances the natural value of degraded vegetation by strategically planting local native species to buffer and connect existing healthy native vegetation remnants.
The second paper, Multiple benefit conservation in Tasmania by Daniel Sprod and Jane Hutchinson, explores the Five Rivers Conservation Project.
This is an innovative global partnership between the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, Conservation International and BHP Billiton which has facilitated the conservation and ongoing management of over 11,000 hectares of land in the Tasmania’s Central Highlands.
Both papers were enormously well received, highlighting the growing importance of sharing knowledge gained through private land conservation projects and partnerships.