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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Helen Cushing

Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’

MCP project coordinator Pierre Defourny and Bush Heritage Australia ecologist Matt Appleby. ‘Only 30% of original vegetation on the Midlands survive,’ says Defourny.
MCP project coordinator Pierre Defourny and Bush Heritage Australia ecologist Matt Appleby. ‘Only 30% of original vegetation on the Midlands survive,’ says Defourny. Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

When Tasmania’s lowland native grasslands were first recommended for national listing as a critically endangered ecosystem in 2007, mistrust between farmers and conservationists was high.

“We walked out of a stakeholder meeting in the Ross pub,” says Simon Foster, whose family have been farming on the Midlands since 1823.

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