Gordonvale - a world heritage opportunity

Your donation today will help to protect this very special natural place for conservation in perpetuity

Gordonvale’s greatest natural asset is its World Heritage Area context and the surrounding Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park – a place of global significance. Nestled in a large glacial valley known as the ‘Vale of Rasselas’, Gordonvale is the traditional home territory of the Pangerninghe clan of the Big River nation and a popular stopover for bushwalkers on the iconic walk into Lake Rhona. It is surrounded by spectacular scenery including the peaks of Great Dome (1,232m) and Wylds Craig (1,286m). It then opens to a wide landscape of undulating buttongrass plains, riparian vegetation, scrub and forest which is home to Tasmania’s fabulous wildlife that find refuge in vegetation cover.  Formed thousands of years ago during Pleistocene times, the area is anchored in alluvial sands, gravel and mud, from which terraces rise to an elevated forest platform. Small pools are scattered throughout, teeming with frogs and other wonderful aquatic life.

Thank you for your help conserving biodiversity and protecting our wonderful plants and wildlife.

All donations over $2 to the Tasmanian Land Conservancy are tax deductible.

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Vale of Rasselas Credit Grant Dixon

By joining our Regular Giving Program you will directly support our important conservation monitoring program across our permanent reserves

In our 11 years of operation, with the help of financial supporters like you, we have created 11 permanent reserves across Tasmania. These reserves contain some of the most diverse and under-protected ecosystems that are now preserved for future generations.

Each reserve is unique and its values are identified in specific management plans which include long-term monitoring programs. The TLC's conservation work is science driven and many of the exciting programs link into conservation programs state-wide or nationally.

We fund our on-going conservation work through grants, the TLC Foundation and our Regular Giving Program.

  •  For $30 per month, your donations over a year will enable us to buy one sensor camera. This camera will be placed permanently in a reserve to enable us to discreetly observe wonderful rare and threatened species such as spotted-tailed quoll, Tasmanian devil and eastern barred bandicoot.

  •  For $50 per month, your donations over a year will enable us to establish one permanent photo post to measure changes in plant diversity and vegetation changes over time.

Photo credits:  

Sunset refection in a pool, Vale of Rasselas. The forest beyond the pool is part of Gordonvale. Grant Dixon 
Jane Hutchinson (TLC CEO) installing a sensor camera at Skullbone Plains permanent reserve Matthew Newton
TLC Blue Tier Permanent Reserve. Andy Townsend - Nature Photographers Tasmania

Grant, Andy and the members of Nature Photographers Tasmania volunteer their professional photography skills and photographs free of charge to the TLC. Thank you.
All photographs are copyright property of the individual photographer.

Donation Information:  

The TLC is a registered not for profit, non political community based organisation. Our vision is for Tasmania to be a global leader in nature conservation and sustainability. We raise funds from the general public to permanently protect land for biodiversity in Tasmania. All donations of $2 and over are tax deductible. All transactions are processed in Australia Dollars (AUD). Card types accepted: Visa, Mastercard. The TLC does not disclose personal details to any other organisation for any reason.