Thank you to agencies controlling recent bushfires
The Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board extend a heartfelt thank you SA Country Fire Service (CFS), Department for Environment and Water (DEW) and National Parks and Wildlife Service for their extraordinary efforts to tackle and control the Deep Creek and Tooperang-Nangkita bushfires over the last 4 weeks. Their work around the clock in steep, difficult terrain, under difficult weather conditions protected people, property and conservation assets. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the bushfires.
We’d like to give a special thank you to the DEW-NPWS Natural Values Team, broader CFS crews and Aerotech team who worked tirelessly to ensure fire containment lines in Deep Creek National Park saved habitat for one of the last remaining populations of the Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren and 180 hectares of critical heathland revegetation for the nationally threatened Western Beautiful Firetail, Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren and Mount Lofty Ranges Chestnut-rumped Heathwren.
The bushfires have impacted large areas of the nationally listed Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula, ~60 ha of heathland revegetation, populations and habitat of nationally threatened birds, mammals and orchids, and state‑threatened species including Golden‑haired Sedge‑skipper, Climbing Galaxias and River Blackfish. We will be working closely with DEW, NPWS, South Australian Seed Conservation Centre and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water in the coming weeks to better to understand the impacts of the fires and plan recovery actions.
