New informative dolphin signs have now been installed at Whyalla’s marina and foreshore along with a suite of new educational signs on sharing the foreshore and the importance of the local environment.
Land managers, school students, volunteers, and Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board staff have come together to plant 800 new Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum seedling in the Cleve district to aid the struggling and endemic EP Blue Gum communities to recover.
Local officers and BirdLife trained volunteers were excited to learn that at least 11 Hooded Plover chicks this season have made it to flying age across the Eyre Peninsula region.
Sarah Voumard has been appointed as a new staff member on the Eastern Eyre Peninsula to support the new Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, while Corey Yeates is taking a break interstate.
Nationally Threatened coastal saltmarsh habitat is slowly being degraded by people with vehicles and machinery such as bobcats modifying the environment to create areas for riding motorbikes in the Whyalla area.
There’s a call out to farmers and farming businesses to establish winter mixed species demonstration sites through the Regenerative Agriculture Program (RAP).
Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula is asking the public to report deer sightings following a recent increase in feral deer activity across Eyre Peninsula.
Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula (NREP) staff will begin Hooded Plover Overwintering Surveys this year at six inland locations across the region during non-breeding months and will continue until 2023 as part of the Saltmarsh Threat Abatement and Recovery Project.
The Department for Environment and Water (DEW) is planning the drilling of 23 new wells to monitor groundwater on the Eyre Peninsula this June and July.