Territory Eco-Link
A landscape scale approach to conservation and culture
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The Territory Eco-link is one of Australia’s most important protected areas projects and will deliver more than 2000 kilometres of linked areas in the Northern Territory. As isolated protected areas suffer permanent impacts when species are lost to disease, fire or other disasters – connecting landscapes will provide the pathway for species to move over larger distances and help prevent local extinctions.
This Northern Territory Government initiative will see a landscape scale approach used to manage our natural systems. These whole-of-landscape approaches are being developed worldwide as the connections between protected areas are realised as important as the areas themselves.
Building resilience in our natural systems while balancing economic and social development with long-term sustainable agricultural, pastoral, tourism and mining industries will ensure a far richer Territory with healthy people and healthy country.
The Territory Eco-link will not only build on our existing assets such as Territory parks, Indigenous protected areas, private conservation reserves and sites of conservation significance, it will also combine our important cultural and historical stories that run through this landscape.
