NRM South works to keep the natural and productive landscapes of south-eastern Tasmania healthy over the long term. We play a key role in building partnerships, securing and directing investment, connecting knowledge and expertise to action and increasing the capacity of others to engage in NRM activities. We work with land managers, the community, the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and organisations, governments, experts, research bodies and NGOs to address land, water, and biodiversity management issues and to better understand, protect and manage these diverse natural assets.
NRM South’s Biodiversity Program works to protect and enhance southern Tasmania’s threatened species, ecological communities and important biodiversity areas. Through a suite of partnership projects, NRM South delivers broad benefits to the region’s natural landscapes.
Projects address key threatening processes, particularly from climate change, biosecurity risks and habitat loss, while building resilience in landscapes to reduce these impacts. Notable species and priority places include Bruny Island (Priority Place), the critically endangered Swift Parrot and Orange-bellied Parrot, and locally endemic species such as the Swan Galaxias, Ammonite Snail and Forty-spotted Pardalote.
NRM South’s Land Program provides systems-based solutions for landscapes dominated by agricultural production. NRM South helps landholders to better understand and improve soil health while also helping them to develop solutions to address climate resilience, water retention and water quality – particularly in drought-prone regions.
NRM South showcases innovative tools and techniques that can be used to inform sound land management decisions and improve the production value of landscapes by reducing erosion risk and protecting groundcover.
NRM South’s Water Program aims to maintain and enhance the health of southern Tasmania’s rivers, estuaries, wetlands, water bodies, coastal and marine systems. Working within catchments and across important ecological communities, NRM South employs novel technologies and methods to improve understanding of water-based systems and impacts across the landscape to improve decision making and resilience to climate-driven change.
NRM South works across three of the four Ramsar-listed wetlands in southern Tasmania and partners with industry, Traditional Owners, landholders, researchers, fishers and the community to restore habitat and build connections across systems and between users.
NRM South’s Sustainable Futures Program includes actions to progress initiatives that are working to improve resilience, pro-actively manage risk and implement nature-based solutions. A changing climate is driving an increased severity and frequency of disasters and emergency events across southern Tasmania, ranging from extreme weather events to bushfires to flash floods, and emergency biosecurity incursions.
These events not only threaten human lives, property, and food supply, but also have significant impacts on biodiversity and agricultural natural capital assets. NRM South is working to enhance community preparedness and response to mitigate these risks effectively.
NRM South is engaging with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Palawa and Pakana community and groups to respond to their self-determined priorities for access to, and healing and protection of Country.
NRM South is committed to engaging with Tasmanian Aboriginal people and groups, through partnership approaches, sharing of knowledge and perspectives, and by supporting action towards their priorities for protection and caring for Country.
The southern region of Tasmania covers 2.5 million hectares of land and is bounded by the Southern Ocean. With a population of around 290,000, it is home to around half the State’s population and covers the 12 municipal areas of Brighton, Central Highlands, Clarence, Derwent Valley, Glamorgan Spring Bay, Glenorchy, Hobart, Huon Valley, Kingborough, Sorell, Southern Midlands, Tasman.
We deliver actions to address environmental and climatic challenges and opportunities for growth and resilience, ensuring healthy landscapes and seascapes, protected natural values, and sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles.
NRM South’s contributions to our national NRM snapshots
