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Land­scape boards com­mit­ted to rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and First Nations partnerships

The chairs of South Australia’s nine land­scape boards have made a strong com­mit­ment to rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and to strength­en­ing part­ner­ships with First Nations across the state by sign­ing an his­toric ​‘State­ment of Commitment’.

Com­bat­ting weed spread when dis­as­ter strikes

Flood, fire and drought all clear a path for oppor­tunis­tic pest plants. Find out what you can do to help pre­vent their spread.

9 good rea­sons to cel­e­brate World Wildlife Day

To cel­e­brate World Wildlife Day (3 March) we’re putting the spot­light on work being done by land­scape boards and their amaz­ing part­ners to con­serve threat­ened native fau­na across South Aus­tralia. Here we fea­ture one species from each of the nine land­scape regions, all of which are list­ed as threat­ened under the Envi­ron­ment Pro­tec­tion and Bio­di­ver­si­ty Con­ser­va­tion Act 1999.

World Water Day

Sus­tain­able water use is a bal­anc­ing act, requir­ing care­ful man­age­ment between ensur­ing ample water to sus­tain water-depen­dent ecosys­tems, while pro­vid­ing enough to effi­cient­ly sup­port agri­cul­tur­al, indus­try, social and cul­tur­al needs.

5 impor­tant SA nat­ur­al land­scapes you may not have heard about

World Envi­ron­ment Day is cel­e­brat­ed on 5 June, a good time to draw atten­tion to some of our less well known nat­ur­al ecosys­tems and what is being done to help them along. Chances are that you may have trav­elled through these areas with­out real­is­ing their impor­tant envi­ron­men­tal value.

Low-flows for water ecosys­tem health

Low-flows main­tain habi­tats through the dri­est part of the year, par­tic­u­lar­ly through the Mount Lofty Ranges, where many water­cours­es are ephemer­al, or only hold­ing water for short peri­ods of time.

Reveg Fes­ti­val set to bring new life to fire affect­ed properties

This year’s ​‘Reveg Fes­ti­val’ on Sat­ur­day 25 June in Wood­side will pro­vide over 20,000 native seedlings to land­hold­ers whose prop­er­ties were affect­ed by the 2019 Cud­lee Creek bush­fire. Par­tic­i­pants can learn great tips on reveg­e­ta­tion at work­shops, chat about oppor­tu­ni­ties with reveg ser­vice providers and com­mu­ni­ty groups, then head off, armed with the right species and infor­ma­tion to give them a great chance of reveg­e­ta­tion success.

Walk­ing along­side First Nations to care for Country

There is much to cel­e­brate in the grow­ing capac­i­ty across the state for dif­fer­ent points of view to come togeth­er to care for Coun­try and work toward statewide land­scape pri­or­i­ties. Here we tell the sto­ry in pic­tures of First Nations part­ner­ships and col­lab­o­ra­tions that are help­ing to care for our land, water and nature.

Land­scapes Hills and Fleurieu cel­e­brates NAIDOC Week

Land­scapes Hills and Fleurieu cel­e­brat­ed NAIDOC Week on Pera­mangk Coun­try on 7 July, bring­ing togeth­er staff and board mem­bers, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, part­ner organ­i­sa­tions and peo­ple from the region’s three First Nations of Kau­r­na, Ngar­rind­jeri and Peramangk.