Gondwana Link West Project

Acquitted Projects

Dec 19

Written By Nicola Edwards

Period: 2006-09

Funding Body: Lotterywest

Funds: $69,913

Project Officers: Mark Ward

Summary

Gondwana Link West conservation Program consisting of 12 projects and administration.

Outcome

Target Area; Gondwana Link West program is in the South Coast Region of Western Australia between the Stirling Range National Park, Porongurup National Park, and the Mt Roe and Mt Lindesay National Parks that form a part of the Walpole Wilderness Area. This is a natural westward progression of the Gondwana Link East Project which focused on the area between the Fitzgerald River and the Stirling Range National Park.

Aim: At this foundation stage

Run community-based workshops to further awareness of bushland corridors, and to involve shires, landholders and plantation companies across the local Cranbrook, Kendenup, Porongurup and Mt Barker communities in the process of developing such corridors.
Consolidate the available science and knowledge of bushlands through survey, mapping and reports. This information will thus enable the development of key strategic actions for a landscape plan in the region.

Both of these aims are done together to ensure that community knowledge and current science are well communicated, and efforts shared. Past experience shows that unless local knowledge and science are discussed simultaneous, the results are rarely implemented.

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