farmers, food & biodiversity winning hearts & minds

and the need for new farming systems

Chris Curnow WWF Program Manager - Southwest Australia Land Manager Engagement

global biodiversity hotspots

crisis ecoregions disturbed by unsustainable pastoralism and agriculture

Hoekstra et al. 2005 Ecology Letters 8, 23–29

…despite a small population

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traditional owner connections

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corporate caring for country

one third perennial systems

one third innovation

one third native vegetation

alternative production

sandalwood

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Western brush-tail wallaby Painted buttonquail

Chudich Red-tailed phascogale

European red fox

a day in the life of a log