Our Projects

Jaliigirr SOS Southern Pink Underwing Moth Project

The Southern Pink Underwing Moth is listed as Endangered by the Australian and NSW governments and its specific food plant Carronia multisepalea is found in two disjunct regions; the NSW Northern Rivers and Bellinger-Orara in the NSW Mid North Coast…. Read more »

Canine scent detectives promoting koala population health in Coffs coast corridors

The project aims to assess the genetic diversity and genetic movement of koalas, surveys to collect fresh koala scat will be undertaken by canine scent detection dogs within mapped koala habitat areas within Coffs Coast landscape corridors. The target area… Read more »

COMPLETED Jaliigirr supporting Wildlife & Habitat fire recovery in the Dorrigo region

COMPLETED Jaliigirr supporting Wildlife & Habitat fire recovery in the Dorrigo region

Field event to inform community and Jaliigirr partners on the conservation status, threats, historical data of Platypus. Register interest of participating citizen scientists. – Collate historical data, liaise with JBA & NPWS to design sampling regime -One sampling event across… Read more »

COMPLETED Canine scent detectives and genetics analysis promoting koala population health in Jaliigirr Corridors – Stage 2

COMPLETED Canine scent detectives and genetics analysis promoting koala population health in Jaliigirr Corridors – Stage 2

The project aims to build on the “Canine scent detectives promoting koala population health in Jaliigirr Corridors project from 2020-21” (Baker L and J Nesbitt 2021), which surveyed koala activity and collected fresh koala scats for future genetic analysis in… Read more »

COMPLETED Glossy Black Cockatoo Conservation project

COMPLETED Glossy Black Cockatoo Conservation project

-2 x workshops held in collaboration with Birdlife  – Rehabilitation of GBC habitat through bush regeneration and planting of specific GBC feed trees. Plant 250 GBC feed trees This project was funded through the City of Coffs Harbour Environmental Levy…. Read more »

Saving Our Species Co-Investment Scheme – Conservation actions for Lowland Rainforests in the Jaliigirr Landscape

Through the SoS co-investment project Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance and its partners will undertake actions to manage key threats impacting the conservation of 29 ha Lowland Rainforest and 5ha Lowland Rainforest on Floodplain. Works at these sites will consist of enrichment… Read more »

COMPLETED Surveying platypus populations in the Orara Valley using eDNA technology.

The Coffs Harbour & Dorrigo region is considered a stronghold for platypuses – a species under serious stress elsewhere in its range from drought, flow stress and land clearing. However, no data currently exists on the impacts of bushfires on… Read more »

COMPLETED Threatened Ecological Community Restoration: Lowland Rainforest

COMPLETED Threatened Ecological Community Restoration: Lowland Rainforest

This project will enable the strategic rehabilitation of Lowland Rainforest threatened ecological communities within the Coffs Harbour LGA. The primary focus of this project will be to undertake weed management actions to facilitate recovery and restore the ecological function of… Read more »

Google map of Dolmans Point Sawtell

Dolmans Point Littoral Rainforest Restoration

This project will enable the strategic rehabilitation of Littoral Rainforest located specifically at Dolmans Point Reserve, Sawtell. The primary focus of this project will be to undertake weed management and revegetation actions to facilitate recovery and restore the ecological function… Read more »

Grey-headed Flying-foxes at Woolgoolga

Protecting Grey-headed Flying-fox camps and foraging resources in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour LGAs

Photographer and copyright: Vivien Jones This five year project began in 2022 and is in partnership with NSW WIRES. This project aims to facilitate Grey-Headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) habitat rehabilitation at key breeding sites and winter foraging habitat in the… Read more »

Two koalas in tree

Cores, Corridors and Koalas: A Collaborative Approach to Restoring the Forests of Eastern Australia

Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance is proud to announce we are partnering with Great Eastern Ranges and WWF-Australia for a third year to deliver Cores, Corridors and Koalas in the Coffs Coast Hinterland – a project to restore and connect critical habitat… Read more »

Koala Community Grants: Round 1

The Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance has won a grant through the the Australian Government’s  Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources. This grant will result in an increase in the condition and extent of koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour and… Read more »

Two koalas in tree

COMPLETED WWF Australia – Koala conservation action in the Coffs Harbour Region

World Wildlife Fund Australia – Koala Conservation action in the Coffs Harbour Region                                    Jaliigirr Biodiversity alliance has been working with WWF Australia to protect… Read more »

Connecting & Improving Koala habitat & connectivity at Hydes Creek and Bongil Bongil National Park

Jaliigirr Koala Habitat Restoration – Hydes Creek to Bongil Bongil 2018-19                           Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance partners have been working extensively to improve the condition, structure and connectivity of critical Koala… Read more »

Yandaarra, Shifting Camp Together

  Caring for Country – Geographies of Co-existence in Gumbaynggirr Country: This research project, led by Aunty Shaa Smith, aims to work with Gumbaynggirr people and Country, to build a better understanding of what Gumbaynggirr-led Caring for Country might look like,… Read more »

Bush Connect – Jaliigirr Landscape Connections in the Great Eastern Ranges

Thora Reserve The Deanes Dorrigo Plateau The Williams Thora-private property Rosewood River-Dorrigo NP This project was funded under the Bush Connect Program delivered by the NSW Environmental Trust. The emphasis of this grant supported community driven, consortium based projects that emphasised on-ground… Read more »

COMPLETED Healthy Catchments = Productive Catchments

The Healthy Catchments = Productive Catchments project aims to promote the ecosystem service benefits of biodiversity management within the productive agricultural landscapes of the North Coast of NSW. To date, most work on the production benefits of biodiversity management have focused… Read more »

COMPLETED Connecting Communities and Cultures through Corridors Project (C4)

Through a coordinated, landscape-scale approach to connectivity conservation, the C4 project aims to restore, manage and enhance biodiversity conservation through: reconnecting and rehabilitating fragmented and degraded corridors, protecting & enhancing existing native vegetation and, managing biodiversity threats in the region…. Read more »

COMPLETED Cultural Connections for Glideways

Connectivity conservation has become the organising principle for a significant proportion of conservation projects both locally in the Jaliigirr area but also more extensively along the 3,600 km’s of the Great Eastern Ranges (GER) Initiative. Locally, there has been a… Read more »