Protecting Our Wild Heart Action Plan
Hobart is very special. No other capital city in Australia, and very few in the world, are so closely linked to nature.
Alpine heaths and bogs swathe the wild, rocky mountain pinnacle of Kunanyi / Mt Wellington. Eucalypt forests cloak her forested hills. Towering Tasmanian blue gums shadow our rivulet corridors. Native grasslands flank the River Derwent.
Many Hobart residents live next to bushland reserves or can easily reach one. Such close proximity intrinsically connects us to the natural world around us.
An action plan for Hobart's bushlands
We are committed to working with the local community to retain, promote and enhance these natural values. This is for the long-term environmental, social and economic benefit of the community.
As part of that commitment, we have created an action plan for Hobart's bushlands. It prioritises our work in protecting high conservation bushland areas. As well as the many threatened native plants and animals that live in these places.
Protecting Our Wild Heart: An Action Plan for Hobart's Bushlands(PDF, 5MB)
The plan identifies highly significant biodiversity hotspots within the City’s bushland reserves including parts of:
- Knocklofty Reserve
- Waterworks Reserve
- Queens Domain.
It highlights the areas of high biodiversity in a renewed push to protect them from key threats. These include invasive weeds, pest animals, climate change and habitat fragmentation.
Biodiversity values map
The interactive map below gauges the importance of Hobart's bushland areas based on conservation values determined by the plan.
You can also open the map in a new window:
Biodiversity values map