Wildlife protection in Australia - Reuters International

30 September 2007

A local contribution to national conservation efforts became international news, as a Reuters TV crew filmed a working bee on Bush Heritage's Scottsdale Reserve. 

While a team of 20 volunteers planted native vegetation to restore habitat for threatened wildlife, Reuters profiled Scottsdale Reserve as part of national and regional efforts in Australia to establish networks of protected habitat.  

The Atherton to Alps (A2A) project aims to reconnect fragmented habitats into a 2800 kilometre long pathway for wildlife along the eastern coast of Australia.  This would enable the movement of wildlife across the continent, particularly in response to habitat changes due to global warming.

The acquisition of Scottsdale Reserve was also the first major action of "Kosciusko to Coast", an ambitious landscape reconnection project that will link the Australian Alps to eastern coastline.

"Wildlife protection in Australia" (2:31 min.) features interviews with Lauren Van Dyke, Reserve Manager and Kosciusko to Coast Project Facilitator, and Professor Brendan Mackey, an ecologist from Australian National University. 

This Reuters report has also been adapted and aired on TV stations around the world, including the Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (Vietnam), Reuters World News Express (Korea), New Tang Dynasty TV (China), and ABCTV (Norway).