Improving Midlands biodiversity

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The Improving Midlands Biodiversity Project is building resilience and enhancing the ecological values and condition of the Midlands Biodiversity hotspot, one of 20 Priority Places in the Australian Government’s Threatened Species Action Plan 2022-2032.

The project aims to improve habitat for threatened species and priority threatened ecological communities, through fencing for livestock management, weed control, revegetation works and ecological burning.

With the project expected to finish in 2028, NRM North and their project partners Tasmanian Land Conservancy and Bush Heritage Australia, have exceeded project targets, with more expected to come. Already, new conservation agreements cover over 1,200 ha, almost twice the targeted area, and on-ground works on over 775 ha are under agreement, far exceeding the 200 ha targeted area.

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This project is funded by the Australian Government’s the Natural Heritage Trust Fund and the Saving Native Species Program.

The Landscape Recovery Foundation has enjoyed early success in seed collection and propagation of critically endangered orchids, which includes the first successful symbiotic propagation of Pterostylis commutata. Prior to the project there was no seed in the seed bank, no germination success, and the mycorrhizal fungi critical to successful propagation had not been identified. Several plants are now growing in pots and producing new leaves.

A newly trained orchid-detection dog, Miki, will further assist the project team to locate new orchid populations. Miki was eager to show his new skills in on-ground trials, locating over 70 individual plants previously undetected by human surveys.

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54 Regional NRM organisations work with people across the country - from the local to national level to manage our land, water, soil, plants and animals.