Connect and restore

The Great Eastern Ranges initiative works to reconnect our landscapes and ecosystems across eastern Australia by regenerating vital habitats, reducing major barriers to wildlife movement, improving land management practices and tackling key threats like feral animals and weeds. This creates stepping stones of habitat and green corridors that enable wildlife to move freely in search of food, shelter and breeding partners, re-establishes natural migration pathways and enables our ecosystems to function unimpeded so that they can continue to provide the many services that sustain us, such as pollination, flood risk reduction, soil formation and carbon absorption. Re-establishing important connections also builds the resilience of our communities, wildlife and landscapes to the impacts of climate change and protects the natural and cultural values that underpin our wellbeing, sense of place, livelihoods and economies.