To share practical and scientific knowledge and increase action for glider conservation in the wake of the 2019-2020 bushfires, GER is supporting the Biolinks Alliance’s Greater and Squirrel Glider symposium. The two-day virtual event on 27-28 October 2020 will engage key glider researchers and practitioners working across eastern Australia through a series of presentations, speaker Q&As, panel discussions and focused workshops. As well as galvanising local collaboration and action in Victoria, the symposium will contribute information to help inform the development of a national Glideways recovery plan.

 

 

 

GER welcomed the recent publication of IUCN’s Guidelines for Conserving Connectivity through Ecological Networks and Corridors. Several years in the making, the guidelines were developed by a specialist group of more than 100 managers and practitioners from 30 countries, including several of the Great Eastern Ranges’ Directors. The aim was to establish definitions for connectivity conservation practice and to highlight applications at a global level. GER sees the release of the new guidelines, and the critical need to build back better post the pandemic, as a prime opportunity to reinvigorate Australia’s world-leading strategy for preserving and connecting habitat at the continental scale – the National Wildlife Corridors Plan.