How Wildlife Corridors are Reconstructed Using Crown Roads in Southern NSW

The Friends of Oolong and Landcare are promoting programs which will produce reforestation and wildlife protection in large areas, not close to national parks and reserves, with the cooperation of local communities and incentives to landholders.

The Oolong Challenge: While Governments and other agencies form partnerships to develop wildlife corridors by purchasing properties to maintain them as national parks, the Friends of Oolong are promoting a way to achieve the same goal on large tracts of private land cleared for agriculture, with the assistance of local communities.

A network of crown roads, about 20m wide, provides access and connects all parcels of land. These crown roads are in the main abandoned. They are shown in all Shire Council parcel maps.

Landholders in cooperation with local communities select any vegetation remnants on their properties, choosing the most suitable crown road as links and developing a Landcare ‘project’ of reforestation of such roads and maintaining them as wildlife corridors.

The Friends of Oolong will try to make - under the initiative to be known as The Oolong Challenge - free allocations of endemic seeds and trees to the relevant local communities involved in the restoration of wildlife corridors using crown roads. The supply of the seeds of the Grassy Box Woodlands to the communities is a contribution by the Friends of Oolong in support of reforestation of this ecosystem.

The Challenge is under the patronage of the Hon Katrina Hodgkinson MP member for Burrinjuck.

Maps to assist to understand the magnitude of what is needed are in Habitat/Remnants at http://www.pcug.org.au/~gianni

For further information

Contact	:	Gianni D'Addario
Address	:	Dalton Park, Bush's Lane
Phone	:	02 48456267
Email	:	gianni@pcug.org.au

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