Conservations efforts in a “connectivity corridor” was in full view last week when a guided bushwalk saw a group of 28 wander through private properties and reserves.
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The area is home to many threatened woodland birds, a wide variety of orchids and wildflowers and the threatened Squirrel Glider.
“It was an opportunity to see in reality what we mean by “connectivity” for wildlife,” Holbrook Slopes to Summit Partnership facilitator Kylie Durant said.
The Slate to Plate Bushwalk started at Blue Metal Rest Area on the Hume Highway and went for about 10 kilometres taking in properties, a stock reserve and landcare revegetation sites.
“Without private landholders participating in conservation programs in the agricultural landscape, we would struggle to maintain connectivity between the large reserves at Woomargama and Table Top,” Nature Conservation Trust Convenant manager Nigel Jones said.
“It’s great to see the past 10 years work culminate in this great biodiversity corridor.”
The walk was made possible by funding from the Australian Government's Bush Links project and the Bushconnect program funded by the NSW Environmental Trust.
Two identification guides are set to be released by the Slopes to Summit Partnership for Large Native Trees and Terrestrial Mammals.
These guides will assist in the identification of locally common native tree species and terrestrial mammals of the Southwest Slopes and Upper Murray Region of NSW.
