A lower Eyre Peninsula landholder recently contacted us about an unknown plant on their property. With the help of our landscape officers, it was discovered that it’s South African Weed Orchid (Disa bracteata) - an environmental weed not previously reported on Eyre Peninsula.
Community consultation is now open for a revision of Eyre Peninsula’s water allocation plan, which regulates how water can be taken from the region’s prescribed groundwater resources and how much can be extracted.
A five-year project focusing on enhancing and restoring remnants of a critically endangered ecological community in western Eyre Peninsula is now underway.
The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board is seeking feedback on a plan to provide a way forward for working collaboratively with Aboriginal communities on natural resource management.
Close to $130,000 will go towards landscape management projects on Eyre Peninsula, under the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s Grassroots Grants program.
Recreational fishers from across the Eyre Peninsula will have the chance to swap their newly banned opera house yabby traps for a pyramid trap at the upcoming Yabby Trap Round-Up in Port Lincoln.