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The Eyre Peninsula and Far West of South Australia are well-placed for conserving biodiversity under a changing climate due to the vast network of National Parks, Conservation Parks and Heritage Agreements which create an almost continuous large area of remnant native vegetation from the Western Australian border to central and northern Eyre Peninsula. This area is seen as critical for the survival of many species under changing climatic conditions and is central to the East meets West NatureLink.
The East meets West NatureLink aims to conserve the biological diversity of northern Eyre Peninsula and the Far West by connecting habitats through a comprehensive system of parks and reserves buffered and linked by lands with complementary land management objectives.
East meets West seeks to achieve positive outcomes for nature conservation while enhancing sustainable land management and regional economic development under changing climatic conditions.
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See the satellite image and map of the East meets West Corridor. Alternatively, see Nature Maps, an interactive online mapping site that can be used to create your own maps or further investigate the East meets West NatureLink.
The approach of NatureLinks is characterised by a shift away from managing patches of land and discrete wildlife populations towards holistic land and wildlife management where connectedness and functioning ecosystems are of prime concern.
East meets West aims to address landscape and ecosystem needs and facilitate the conservation of ecological processes. In this way, East meets West challenges traditional notions of conserving 'exactly what we have now, where it is now' (a static view of biodiversity conservation). More ambitiously, it tries to protect dynamic and broad-scale ecosystem processes and lessen the impacts of changing climatic conditions.
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