National parks are not enough – we need landholders to protect threatened species on their property

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:10:48 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/national-parks-are-not-enough-we-need-landholders-to-protect-threatened-species-on-their-property-176012>

"Over the last decade, the area protected for nature in Australia has shot up
by almost half. Our national reserve system now covers 20% of the country.

That’s a positive step for the thousands of species teetering on the edge of
extinction. But it’s only a step.

What we desperately need to help these species fully recover is to protect them
across their range. And that means we have to get better at protecting them on
private land.

Our recent research shows this clearly. We found almost half (48%) of all of
our threatened species’ distributions occur on private freehold land, even
though only 29% of Australia is owned in this way.

By contrast, leasehold land – largely inland cattle grazing properties – covers
a whopping 38% of the continent but overlaps with only 6% of threatened
species’ distributions. And in our protected reserves? An average of 35% of
species’ distribution."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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