The NRM North Biodiversity team have recently wrapped up the Giant Freshwater Crayfish Project ,which engaged landholders located within priority stream reaches of the Pipers, Brid and Boobyalla catchments to co-invest in on-ground habitat restoration. The project aimed to reduce threats to the Giant Freshwater Crayfish with livestock exclusion fencing, controlling riverbank weeds, native riverbank revegetation and providing alternative livestock water sources. Community volunteers were involved in habitat planting days and a citizen science program.
Endemic to northern Tasmania and capable of growing over 80cm long and weighing up to 6kgs, the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi) is the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world.
Read more about this initiative and the overall Project.
