Sheep farmers are helping save Tasmania's native grasslands: 'We're better off working together'

Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania's Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem - and local farmers' profitsSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterWhen 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.Sign up to receive Guardian Australia's fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter Continue reading...