Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance - part of a national framework for the protection and security of biodiversity, ecosystem services and natural resources along the Great Eastern Ranges and Australia's Eastern Seaboard
The Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance is a partnership that has been established to support the voluntary contributions of organisations, landholders and communities to improve and protect the biodiversity of our landscape from the Dorrigo Plateau through the Bellinger Valley & seaboard to the Coffs Coast.
The founding partners of the Alliance include many local community and Aboriginal groups, individuals, government and non - government agencies, public authority, business and education institutions who have an active interest in the health of the environment.
The Alliance values Aboriginal cultural attachment to our landscapes & has embraced the Gumbaynggirr word for tree “Jaliigirr” to best describe our partnership.
By creating this Alliance, all our partners & their communities have the opportunity to work together at a landscape scale. This can better manage threats to our biodiversity, it can build & grow our abilities & our businesses, and it will strengthen our communications. Our work will also contribute to the bigger national picture - the Great Eastern Ranges corridor.
The great eastern ranges, which include the Great Dividing Range and the Great Escarpment of Eastern Australia, and in some places large sections of the intervening highlands:
- Are a source of clean water for more than three-quarters of Australians
- Contain the catchments for the most reliable rainfall in eastern Australia
- Contain three World Heritage areas, and many national parks, nature reserves and wilderness areas
- Contain almost two-thirds of NSW's vulnerable and endangered plant and animal species
- Contain areas of spiritual significance to Aboriginal people, and national parks owned by Aboriginal people
- Are a reservoir for biodiversity, and a 'lifeline' for biodiversity and cultural heritage
- Contain rainforests with the greatest concentration of primitive flowering plants in the world – there are over 8000 plant species, of which more than 1200 are endemic
- Are one of Australia's most important tourism destinations
- Are the only continental-scale north–south area that can support conservation linkages in Australia over the maximum possible elevation, latitude and climate range
- Are arguably the terrestrial equivalent of the Great Barrier Reef.
- Category:
- Community/government