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Wildlife Corridors - What are they and why are they important?

Wildlife corridors are remnant habitat, regenerated habitat or artificially created habitat that links larger areas of wildlife habitat.  Corridors provide a means by which animals and plant seeds can move between larger areas of habitat that are their refuges, within an otherwise uninhabitable environment.

Wildlife corridors play a crucial role in maintaining connections between animal and plant populations that would otherwise be isolated and at greater risk of local extinction. Corridors also provide supplementary feeding habitat for animals.  The Cooks River to Iron Cove GreenWay plays an important role as an urban wildlife corridor. more

In Gympie a regional town in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, Australia a Beef Farmer, an Industrial Engineer and a Veterinarian Surgeon are working together to start building wildlife corridors around the farmers' land. 

The plan is to spread the word around his neighbours, community and government to get some assistance to get and plant natives trees all his surroundings.

The benefits for the farmer involve in this initiative will increase his leverage and in a long run will improve the soil quality and cattle health thank to having more wildlife in his land.


Tasks:
Farmer: Has to commit to give a portion of his land to be reforest with native plants. Connect LFT Australia locally with entities or people from public and private sector.

Vet. surgeon: Give education talks to community, farmers and entities about the importance of wildlife corridors as well as networking with other vets and other conservation organizations

Engineer: Is in charge of looking for ways to do crowd funding and present the project for funding.

Benefits:

Farmer:Preserve his property and give example to other farmers that it is possible to work in balance in a productive farm and preserve a healthy biodiversity and cattle in the same land.

Vet. surgeon: Promote conservation and preservation within community and networking with conservationist with local projects.

Engineer: Get some project up and running for other businesses and farmers in the locality.

Time frame: A year project Jan 2017 to dic 2017 

The 1st phase starts on the 15 of January till 15 of February where

Farmer: Start talking to people about the project and how will benefit the town and their pockets.

Vet. surgeon: 20 of February  start the training packages delivery

Engineer: 15 May The project is ready to be presented to find funding for tools and trees to be planted in the area.