The New Jersey Landscape Project

The New Jersey Landscape Project is a pro-active, ecosystem-level approach for the long-term protection of imperiled species and their important habitats in New Jersey. The project began in 1994 by the N.J. Division of Fish Wildlife's Endangered and Nongame Species Program (ENSP). It's goal: to protect New Jersey's biological diversity by maintaining and enhancing imperiled wildlife populations within healthy, functioning ecosystems. The Landscape Project focuses on large land areas called "landscape regions" that are ecologically similar with regard to their plant and animal communities. Using an extensive database that combines imperiled and priority species location information with land-use/land-cover data, the Endangered and Nongame Species Program has identified and mapped areas of critical importance for imperiled species within each landscape region.