To keep their populations viable, native animals need to move easily from place to place in search of food, homes and suitable partners. Unfortunately, roads, fences, cleared land and buildings have made our landscape a complex, fragmented patchwork in which only pockets of healthy native habitat remain, most isolated from each other… and the habitat of a vast array of species has vanished or at the very least, become fragmented.
Native animals like koalas, gliders, echidnas, wombats, bandicoots and many species of birds and reptiles now have to scale fences, cross busy roads, negotiate backyards containing dogs and cats and move over entire paddocks with no tree cover, exposing them to predators. This is one of the main reasons that more than 20% of our nation’s animals – over 600 Australian species - are currently classified as threatened.
FNPW is raising money right now to help reconnect healthy habitats such as our national parks. An example is the K2W Wildlife Corridor initiative, which runs from the towering eucalypts and ravines of Kanangra-Boyd National Park in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales to a place called Wyangala. We have a goal to restore and grow this important corridor so it also links to the natural temperate grassland of the Southern Tablelands.
• Protect and expand existing vegetation cover and wildlife habitats
• Maximise corridor width and function via re-vegetation
• Control weeds and feral animals
• Remove unused barbed wire fencing from wildlife corridors
• Provide specific habitat resources (like hollows), particularly for threatened species like Gliders and Koalas
• Encourage landholders to conserve native vegetation on their properties
• Reconnect national parks
Thank you in anticipation of your valued support.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Darbyshire
CEO – Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife
P.S. Donors to this special appeal will be invited to our next Wombeyan Caves ‘BioBlitz’ in May – a 2-day hands-on fieldwork experience with eminent local ecologists in and around the beautiful Wombeyan Caves, near Bowral NSW. The data you’ll help collect will enable better management of this important area of native flora and fauna.
I am very excited to announce that due to the great response to our recent wildlife corridors appeal, FNPW has made a commitment to partner with the NSW Government’s Saving our Species (SoS) program on a three-year project to link habitats and restore functional linkages across the Gillindich-Wyangala landscape. Targeted interventions in strategic locations will help prevent further population decline of key arboreal and woodland species and ensure the long-term persistence of species in the K2W region. Your generous donations will improve habitat and connectivity for threatened species like koalas, gliders, echidnas, wombats, bandicoots, as well as many species of birds and reptiles. Read more at https://www.fnpw.org.au/latest-updates/connecting-to-protect