Australian wildlife is facing an extinction crisis, with 31% of mammals extinct or threatened. Rewilding the Desert is aiming to bring back from the brink our threatened desert wildlife, with community volunteers and expert researchers joining together. The first step is an in-depth BioBlitz, establishing monitoring and research programs to better understand the ecological benefits and impacts of rewilding. Threatened species like quolls, numbats and bilbies will be progressively released.
There has been an extraordinary extinction of highly distinctive Australian wildlife. The real significance of species loss is little understood and often over-simplified. But without doubt, we are losing - forever - the function that species contribute to our world's ecosystem regulation; through pest control, good soil and water quality, pollination and seed dispersal. Now is the time to act - before it's too late. We have successfully secured the land - we need your help to rewild it.
Perhaps you've heard about the program to reintroduce wolves to Yellowstone National Park or Beavers into Scotland. The presence or absence of these species can have a huge and complex effect on all other species, from mammals to fungi. This project is the first key step in the Rewilding the Desert program, enabling comprehensive monitoring + research to be achieved, creating a big picture understanding of the ecological benefits and impacts of rewilding lost species back into the landscape
This project will enable programs and activities within and beyond sanctuaries and reserves to recreate functional desert ecosystems. The program also is focused on engaging the community in growing and sharing open-sourced, evidence-based knowledge and sharing the knowledge gained on a global scale, to aid in the critical repairing of damaged lands/ecosystems and humanities long-term survival. We will proactively engage volunteers in this program to purposefully connect people with nature.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
