Community & Business
25 September, 2021
New green corridors in the region
250 PROPERTY owners across the region will become a part of a new green corridor, as a way to expand on the already existing Mabi forest as a part of the Terrain NRM Rebuilding Rainforest Resilience Project.
250 PROPERTY owners across the region will become a part of a new green corridor, as a way to expand on the already existing Mabi forest as a part of the Terrain NRM Rebuilding Rainforest Resilience Project.
The project is designed to improve forests in the region through revegetation, weed management and finding solutions to cassowary deaths and injuries on the road.
The Mabi forest is an endangered forest that grows between Atherton, Kiari, Yungaburra and Malanda and Terrain NRM plans to help it flourish for longer.
Yungaburra property owner Louise Gavin has contributed her land as a way to give back to the environment and farming community.
“We’ve only lived in the region for three years and we had no idea before this that there was a type of rainforest that was critically endangered,’’ Mrs Gavin said.
“It’s really good to be able to have a small project here that fits into the bigger picture of connecting forested areas.
“Small grants like this give individual landholders a chance to help build resilience in pockets of Mabi forest and do something to balance the ecosystem and help others to keep farming their land.”
Three hundred Mabi trees have been planted on the Gavin’s property, with the help of local conservation group TREAT, to improve a revegetation site begun 10 years ago on the land. Weed control has also been a big part of the new project.
Terrain NRM’s Tony O’Malley said a third project on the Tablelands had brought together TREAT and a farming family together to plant 1700 trees along a creekline, control weeds and keep cattle out of a revegetation area at a narrow section of Donaghy’s Corridor within the Crater Lakes cassowary corridor.
“We contacted 250 landholders from across the Wet Tropics region whose properties border world-heritage areas,’’ Mr O’Malley said.
The ‘Building Rainforest Resilience’ grants have ranged from $1000 to $25,000, with more available later in the year.
For more information, visit www.terrain.org.au/rainforest
