Gondwana Link is a landscape restoration project that protects and reconnects habitat across 1,000 kilometres in Western Australia’s south-west. This region, classified as a global biodiversity hotspot, is home to an ancient ecology with more than 7,200 vascular plant species, 80 percent of them endemic.1 While rich in biodiversity, the area has suffered the drastic impacts of land clearing for agriculture, with only 30 percent of primary native vegetation remaining.2
In this context of opportunity and of loss, Gondwana Link offers an approach to broad-scale repair. While conventional techniques focus on the regeneration of isolated remnant patches, this project provides a framework for social and ecological restoration at a landscape scale: a statewide corridor that crosses boundaries and bioregions.
The complex and wide-ranging networks spanning these landscapes are drawn together by Gondwana Link’s shared vision for landholder-led conservation and restoration – an aim to reconnect country across south-western Australia. The connection runs from the south-west forests at the coast to the Greater Western Woodlands at the border of the Nullarbor Plain, through a central region
