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Target 3.2 of South Australia's Strategic Plan is to, by 2010, have five well-established biodiversity corridors aimed at maximising ecological outcomes particularly in the face of climate change.
What does this target mean? It is becoming apparent that long term survival and recovery of our native biodiversity (genes, species and ecosystems) will require strategic planning at large scales over extended timeframes. The five corridors will provide a vision and framework for this recovery at broad landscape scales, with the management activities of groups and individuals strategically planned to work towards common outcomes.
The long term intention is that in a hundred years South Australia will have five landscape-scale areas of connected habitat comprising a comprehensive system of core protected areas buffered and linked by areas of land and sea managed for conservation. Within these areas South Australian species and ecosystems will be able to survive, evolve and adapt to environmental changes such as climate change.
The five biodiversity corridors are being developed across the state:
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Arid Lands NatureLink: encompasses the stony plains and inland lakes in the centre and north of the state, including Marree and Marla.
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Cape Borda to Barossa NatureLink: from the western edge of Kangaroo Island, north-east across Backstairs Passage,and north through the Adelaide region to the Barossa Valley.
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East meets West NatureLink: from central Eyre Peninsula to the Western Australian border, including the Nullarbor Plain and the Great Australian Bight.
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Flinders-Olary NatureLink: starting in the southern Flinders Ranges and extending north to the Flinders and Gammon Ranges, and north-east to the Olary Ranges.
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River Murray-South East NatureLink: stretching the full length of the River Murray in South Australia, encompassing the entire Coorong area and continuing along the south eastern coast to the Victorian border.
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