We’ve continued to make innovative and meaningful progress in supporting research that improves the management of Australia’s terrestrial and freshwater species and ecosystems.

Not only has the Resilient Landscapes Hub contributed to a wide variety of projects to protect rare and threatened species, we’ve also been part of projects that have rediscovered species that were feared to be extinct!

Hub researchers from Zoos Victoria have also been trialling the use of detection dogs to sniff out the recently rediscovered Victorian grassland earless dragon. After training with dragons housed at Melbourne Zoo, the dogs were successful at sniffing out this critically endangered reptile in the field. A conservation breeding program at the zoo recently led to a world first hatching of baby Victorian grassland earless dragons!

We’re continuing to develop partnerships with Indigenous communities, people and organisations.

Developing partnerships with Indigenous communities, people and organisations underpins the NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub’s work. The hub is built on more than 18 years of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rangers, researchers and Traditional Owners. Together we design, undertake and share the findings of research.

The hub facilitates best-practice Indigenous-led and co-designed science. We continue to draw on lessons from the Our Knowledge, Our Way Guidelines that were developed under our previous hub.

This year, we’ve supported ground-breaking research monitoring threatened species across Australia.

Hub researchers have incorporated Indigenous Knowledge of native species and environments into the collection and analysis of data about threatened species. This two-way science has led to the development and implementation of more effective species management strategies and protocols.

The Resilient Landscapes Hub and its partners have made important progress in the conservation of Australia’s threatened native species and have attracted national-scale media coverage of this work. The hub is helping to ensure that threatened species survive for generations to come.