GREEN CONNECTIONS PROJECT
RECONNECTING & RESTORING WET TROPICS FORESTS
Overview
This three-year project is running from 2025-2028 to revegetate and restore priority forest areas in the Wet Tropics. The focus is on areas of strategic importance – wildlife corridors and strategic rehabilitation areas that will yield the most improvement in ecosystem function.
The onground work will be delivered on private land in partnership with Traditional Owners, community groups and landholders.
Background
The Green Connections Project is part of Terrain NRM’s goal to reconnect and buffer the World Heritage Areas to create one large healthy and intact system that is more resilient.
Eleven ecological corridors and strategic rehabilitation areas have been identified by scientists in the Wet Tropics as a priority for concerted restoration efforts.
Solutions
- Deliver on ground action through a restoration grants program targeting:
- Revegetation
- Assisted regeneration
- Weed & pest control
Targets
- Revegetation (i.e. planting seedlings)
- 9 hectares of any native vegetation community
- 2 hectares of Threatened Ecological Community
- Restoration (i.e. assisted natural regeneration and weed/pest control)
- 44 hectares in any native vegetation community
- 20 hectares in a Threatened Ecological Community
Location
The Wet Tropics
Partners
Community groups, Traditional Owners and landholders
Funders
This project is funded by the Queensland Government’s Natural Resource Management Expansion Program.
