To enhance biodiversity conservation.

Eligible applicants may seek up to $10,000

What is a Biolink? 

A biolink, also known as a habitat corridor, links separate habitat patches and aims to support biodiversity by:

• Reducing fragmentation by building upon and ultimately connecting habitat patches that have been subdivided, reduced and/or isolated.
• Providing habitat for wildlife that can persist in narrow corridors, or use them for foraging, breeding or sheltering.
• Providing pathways for individual animals to move between patches.
• Facilitating genetic exchange between populations in isolated habitat patches, therefore reducing their risk of local extinction.
• Enabling recolonisation of patches where species are locally extinct.
• Enabling species to disperse to areas with more suitable climatic conditions in the face of climate change.

Biolinks have been found to effectively increase movement between patches for a broad range of species. Species that cannot move through unsuitable habitat or that rely upon metapopulation dynamics to recolonise habitat following population declines, are thought to benefit considerably from biolinks.

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