The NRM North region comprises approximately 60 per cent natural landscapes which support native species, communities and ecosystems that have experienced minimal human impacts. These biodiversity-rich natural landscapes are highly valued by the community for their intrinsic value and the way that they characterise Tasmania and the sense of place for our communities. They also underpin much of our economy and are of high value to Tasmania’s growing tourism industry.

The biodiversity values within our natural landscapes are under increasing threat from habitat loss and modification from changing land use and development pressures, weeds, pests and diseases, climate change, and natural disasters such as floods, drought and fire. There is an opportunity to work with both public and private land managers to implement on-ground action and to support policy and planning initiatives to buffer the impacts of these threats and pressures on our biodiversity.

The Biodiversity Program aims to protect and enhance native habitat and landscape function, with a focus on high value natural assets including threatened species and ecological communities, endemic species and Ramsar wetland sites. The priority natural assets and associated actions have been selected based on NRM North’s capacity to achieve long-term positive outcomes by increasing community awareness and involvement and working with a range of partners across land tenures.

The target biodiversity assets NRM North will focus on between 2015-2025 include:

• Tasmanian endemic species such as Shy Susan, Davies Wax Flower and the Golfer’s Leek Orchid;
• nationally listed species and communities including coastal temperate saltmarsh, spotted tailed quoll, hooded plover, giant freshwater crayfish and eastern barred bandicoot; and
• Ramsar sites including Little Waterhouse Lake, Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River, and Logan Lagoon.

You can learn more about the Biodiversity Program in the NRM North Strategic Plan 2019-2023.