Coast to Cradle Corridor

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The Coast to Cradle Wild Country corridor connects the beauty of Tasmania's North-West coast over the forested hinterland of the Dial range, on past a dramatic, steep-sided gorge carved by the Leven River, to the spectacular wild mountain of Black bluff and on to Cradle mountain and the Tasmanian wilderness world heritage area. This landscape features spectacular geological formations, the deepest limestone gorge in Tasmania, sheer cliffs, series of rapids, waterfalls, and critically important intact ecosystems.

Leven Canyon by Tilde Bergstrom

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About the region

Coastal beauty, forested hinterland, a deep river canyon and alpine mountains

The Coast to Cradle wild country corridor is located on Tasmania’s central north coast. Penguin is the gateway to this remarkable landscape, which stretches from the coast through the forested Dial Range, along the Leven River and its deep canyon, and up to the alpine slopes of Black Bluff. It forms a critical ecological and recreational corridor linking Tasmania’s north coast to Cradle Mountain and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area.

This region encompasses a sweep of very special wild, scenic and ecologically important landscapes.

Leven Canyon

Black Bluff

Paddys Lake

Winterbrook Falls

Swamp harrier Leven River 0638 by Tilde Bergstrom

Swamp Harrier on the Leven River

Giants of the Leven

Dial Range

Echidna

Leven River

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Articles about Coast to Cradle Corridor

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Our responsibility to bring children into nature

Tasmanian outdoor guide, naturalist and former educator Peter Marmion talks about the importance of bringing kids out in nature.

Mountain biking on the north west coast

The Dial Range offers a broad spectrum of terrain for mountain biking. Chris Stredwick, Vice president of the Cradle Coast Mountain Bike Club, has spent...

The Dial Range: an artist's perspective

Louise Daniels is a Tasmanian visual artist of Trawlwoolway/Palawa heritage. Her art practice incorporates drawing, painting, and wire sculpture, with her work often referencing Country...

A sense of achievement

Hiking up a mountain provides a valuable sense of achievment.

Black Bluff Mountain, by Tilde Bergstrom

Conservation

This area forms part of a relatively intact ecological corridor, linking various forest and alpine habitats.

The area forms part of a relatively intact ecological corridor, linking various forest and alpine habitats. Its relatively low levels of fragmentation make it a critical area for climate refugia, allowing species to shift ranges due to climate change.

The Dial Range acts as a ‘forested island in a sea of farmland’, sheltering endangered and threatened wildlife and maintaining intact habitat patches and forest connectivity across approx. 5,200 ha of relatively undisturbed land.

The Leven Canyon Regional Reserve is noted as “an important wildlife corridor between Cradle Mountain and the coast,” essential for species movement and ecological health, supporting species like giant freshwater crayfish, quolls, echidnas and devils.

This is an outstanding part of Tasmania's natural heritage.

Conservation efforts for Coast to Cradle Corridor

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Giant freshwater crayfish surveying with Todd Walsh

Kuno follows along Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish expert Todd Walsh for a day in the field, tracking and surveying this unique endemic species.

Paddys Lake, Black Bluff, by Tilde Bergstrom

Nature

The Coast to Cradle Wild Country Corridor forms an important wildlife corridor between Cradle Mountain and the coast.

The specular part of the world is essential for species movement and ecological health, essential for supporting species like giant freshwater crayfish, quolls, echidnas and devils.

The region supports diverse vegetation communities, including; wet and dry sclerophyll forests, important pockets of Eucalyptus viminalis (white gum) on basalt, rainforest patches in sheltered gullies, alpine and subalpine communities at higher elevations (like Black Bluff).

It is also home to numerous endemic and threatened species, such as the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, the Tasmanian devil, the Grey Goshawk and the Giant freshwater crayfish, which is endemic to northern Tasmania.

It is also home to unique plant species, including rare orchids and mountain flora, and the endemic and endangered King Billy Pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides).

The species of Coast to Cradle Corridor

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Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi)

The Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish is the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world. Photo: Tilde Bergstrom

Spotted-tailed Quoll

The Spotted-tailed Quoll is the second largest carnivorous marsupial in Australia after the Tasmanian Devil.

Tasmanian Pademelon

The Tasmanian pademelon is a small wallaby that inhabits the dense forests of Tasmania. Picture: Dan Broun

Tasmanian Devil

The Tasmanian Devil, the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world, is a true icon for the Tasmanian state.

Bennett's Wallaby

Bennett’s wallaby, also known as the Red-necked wallaby, is a medium-sized marsupial native to Tasmania and eastern Australia. Photo: Valeriia Miller

Echidna

Echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, are unique mammals native to Australia and New Guinea. Image: Dan Broun

Myrtle beech

The Myrtle beech, or simply 'Myrtle' is the dominant species of Tasmania's rainforests. Myrtle trees can grow up to 55m tall, and have a heart-shaped dark green leaf with a tiny serrated edge.

Black Currawong

The currawong is a bird found only in Tasmania, frequents forests, and is a glossy all-black colour with a heavy black bill, small white tip to its tail and wingtips, and bright-yellow eyes.

Coast to Cradle Corridor galleries

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Black Bluff & Winterbrook

Black Bluff and Winterbrook are two jewels on the north coast of Tasmania.

Woodland birds

We all need a good visual dose of the wonder of Nature sometimes, and we can't always get outside from behind the desk, to breathe it in. Here, we bring it to you, with these beautiful close-ups of our unique woodland bird species, photographed by Tasmanian bird ecologist Dr Eric Woehler (OAM). Take a moment and enjoy.

Community

A local community that loves the Coast to Cradle landscape

People of this corner of our planet have held a deep and rich relationship with this landscape for more than 40,000 years.

This is a region of deep first Tasmanian stories, linkages and connections with this land.

This is a place that many generations of Tasmanians have walked through, found solace in, and have a very special relationship with.

The North-West Coast community loves and is deeply connected to the importance, beauty and values of this land.

Billie Hicks

Billie is a coordinator for the North West Walking Club. She leads a monthly walk into various spots of the Dial Range, and she loves to bring new people who's never explore the Dial before.

Louise Daniels

Based in Ulverstone, Lutruwita/Tasmania, Louise Daniels is a Palawa woman with a lifelong interest in the visual arts. She has enjoyed the opportunity to focus on art studies and practice in recent years, and her multi-media practice includes landscape paintings...

Coast to Cradle Corridor

Coastal beauty, forested hinterland, a deep river canyon and alpine mountains

Help us to build a platform to connect people with planet earth!

Articles about Coast to Cradle Corridor

Our responsibility to bring children into nature

Mountain biking on the north west coast

The Dial Range: an artist's perspective

A sense of achievement

This area forms part of a relatively intact ecological corridor, linking various forest and alpine habitats.

Conservation efforts for Coast to Cradle Corridor

Giant freshwater crayfish surveying with Todd Walsh

The Coast to Cradle Wild Country Corridor forms an important wildlife corridor between Cradle Mountain and the coast.

The species of Coast to Cradle Corridor

Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi)

Spotted-tailed Quoll

Tasmanian Pademelon

Tasmanian Devil

Bennett's Wallaby

Echidna

Myrtle beech

Black Currawong

Coast to Cradle Corridor galleries

Black Bluff & Winterbrook

Woodland birds

A local community that loves the Coast to Cradle landscape

Billie Hicks

Louise Daniels

Todd Walsh

Jess Ewing

Lyndon O'Neil

Marcio Conrado

Phill Pullinger

Sue Robertson

Tilde Bergström

Cradle Coast Mountain Bike Club

Protect Our North West Forests

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