Biodiversity in the Paddock: a Land Managers Guide

There is growing interest in the role of native pastures in landscape health and biodiversity conservation.  There are between three and ten million hectares of native pastures on the south-western slopes of the Murray Darling Basin.

This land use represents the most widespread form of native vegetation in these landscapes and is likely to be playing an important role in the persistence of native fauna and flora.  Furthermore, increases in the cover of native perennial grasses within these areas could substantially contribute to improved ecosystem function and soil protection.

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems worked with Future Farm Industries CRC, Meat and Livestock Australia and the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria to produce this handbook.

This booklet is about the role that native pastures have in farming landscapes that were once grassy woodlands but which now support a range of land uses.

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