Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmanias native grasslands: Were better off working together

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. Four years later, Foster and a small group of other local farmers had come around. “We’re better off working together than taking an adversarial approach,” Foster said. Midlands Conservations Partnership TasmaniaLand on which the Midlands Conservations Partnership operates, near Ross, Tasmania. Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian They facilitated the formation of the

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