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There a number of ways in which you can help in achieving Gondwana Link's aims. These are:
 Donating
Our work relies heavily on private contributions – your donations. Click here to give a tax deductible donation directly to one or more organisations, stating a preference for the funds to be used for their Gondwana Link work. Your donation will be used to protect, buy or replant bush in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots – south-western Australia.


Investing in plant based industries
The Gondwana Link coordinator is working with Greening Australia WA, the Centre for Excellence in Natural Resource Management, other organisations and  landholders to investigate and develop investment opportunities for commercial native plant crops. These ecologically supportive, plant based industries utilise sandalwood (Santalum), broombush, essential oils, flowers, fine timber and bush foods.

There is now an option to invest profitably in the establishment of biodiverse sandalwood plantations on cleared land in key landscape zones that are both structurally and taxonomically diverse (containing over 50 local plant species). See www.spicatum.com.au to find out how.


Protecting and managing key areas of land
The sensitive management and restoration of privately owned land is one of the many approaches necessary to achieve the Gondwana Link's vision. Privately owned bushland is integral to relinking natural ecosystems and some key bushland areas have been purchased by private landholders and then protected and managed under conservation covenants. The publication 'Living with the Land - Guidelines for the Fitz-Stirling' (1.5Mb) compiled by Angela Sanders to assist land managers to plan and implement actions that will contribute to the restoration and improved health of the landscape between the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River national parks.

There are also opportunities for landholders to purchase strategically located, suitable farm properties and get help in its restoration.  Contact the coordination unit for information on available properties.

Through their landcare and other conservation works, a number of landholders have already made a substantial contribution to what will become hundreds of kilometres of linked vegetation. Building the Gondwana Link can be done while you make lots of  improvements to your property.

Many farmers have already fenced their remaining bushland areas. For example, in the Stirlings to Fitzgerald link a substantial network of smaller linking corridors has been built, through the $1.2 million Pallinup/North Stirlings landcare project. This project alone has established over 800 kilometres of fencing to protect 4,500 hectares of bush and 2,000 hectares of revegetation. 8 million seedlings of local plants are now growing on this land, mainly through direct seeding.

Incentives to help landholders have been available through the South Coast Natural Resource Management Southern Incentives program. In 2002, protective conservation covenants went on nearly 2000 hectares of bushland in the Stirlings to Fitzgerald link. Further incentive programs have been available from 2005 onwards, through the SCNRM Regional Strategy process.

If you would like to discuss ecologically supportive investment opportunities, land purchase and covenanting contact us.

Volunteering
There are often opportunities for you to become personally involved in the work of the Gondwana Link groups.

 There are fences to pull up, native seed to collect and plant, filing systems to manage, events to organise, plants, animals and birds to identify and study – and much more.

If you wish to volunteer please contact one of the groups involved in Gondwana Link  below.


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Bush Heritage Australia
 Fitzgerald Biosphere Group
 Friends of the Fitzgerald
River National Park
 Greening Australia
 Green Skills The Nature Conservancy The Wilderness Society