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Have your say on our new plan

Have your say on our new plan

The Kangaroo Island Landscape Board (KILB) is updating our Five-Year Landscape Plan and we want your input.

Why we’re doing this

  • The Kangaroo Island Landscape Plan (the Plan) sets our priorities for how we care for land, water, biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods on Kangaroo Island.
  • Healthy landscapes support agriculture, tourism, biodiversity, and community wellbeing.
  • We want a Plan that reflects the aspirations, knowledge and lived experiences of the people who live, work and care for this place.
  • This is about setting a shared direction, so that effort and investment are focused where they matter most.

What the Plan will do

  • The Plan will guide KILB’s work over the next five years (2026-2031), coordinating action and attracting funding.
  • It will build on our achievements and learning from last five years.
  • It will identify regional priorities, focus areas and outcomes for the Board to achieve in managing landscapes and supporting resilient communities.
  • The Plan will be practical – helping to turn community insights, science and regional knowledge into real outcomes.

How you can help

What the Plan won’t do

  • It’s not a regulatory tool and it won’t override other planning processes.
  • It’s not a commitment to fund or deliver everything immediately, but it will make a stronger case for investment.
  • It won’t revisit decisions made through other processes but it will ensure that local voices shape future priorities.

Why your voice matters

  • The more the Plan reflects real issues and opportunities on KI, the more useful and powerful it will be.
  • We’re looking for a broad mix of views, from farmers and fishers to conservation groups, tourism businesses and young people.
  • Whether you’ve got a big vision or a small idea, it can help shape the future direction of our landscape.

What you can expect from the process

  • You’ll be heard. We’ll listen and reflect back what we’re hearing.
  • We’ll be clear about what’s in scope, and what happens next.
  • Engagement will respect your views and your time, and be focused on practical action.

Key milestones for developing the Plan: how you can have your say about the future work of the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board

Have your say on our new plan

We are in the initial stages of reviewing our current Plan and are seeking your feedback on how we shape the future plan.

Step 1: Understanding the community’s priorities

We are running a series of workshops and an online survey to capture what you value, what you think our priorities should be and help us identify future challenges and opportunities.

We want to know:

  • What parts of the landscape are most important to our community and why?

  • Which landscape outcomes are most important to our community?

  • What are the Island’s top challenges, now and over the next five years?

  • What are our community’s most front-of-mind priority focus areas for landscape management?

  • What would our community do if we had no constraints?

  • What Board services do you most value?

  • Is there anything else you want to see in the Plan to make it more useful (for example explanation of the Board’s role)?

You can help us shape the new Plan in the following ways:

  1. Share your thoughts through our online survey that will be open until 19 September 2025 here: https://forms.office.com/r/rSmqBGN7ZR
  2. Meet with us at in person and take part in a two-hour workshop:
  1. Connect with us directly to provide feedback or ask questions by emailing ki.landscapeboard@sa.gov.au

Step 2: Making sure we have captured your priorities in the draft Plan

Once we’ve had time to review all of the feedback from the workshops and online survey, we will run some drop-in sessions to make sure we have captured your views and feedback accurately in the draft Plan

We want to know:

  • What big-picture challenges and priorities facing Kangaroo Island?

  • Of those, what can the Board do in the next five years – what is feasible, fundable, practical?

  • Are there any risks or unintended consequences of focusing on these priorities?

  • Who do we need to work with to deliver these priorities?

  • What does our community think about our proposed focus areas and outcomes?

You can help us make sure the draft Plan is ready for broader consultation by meeting with us at:

  1. The Kingscote Show at the Kingscote Oval, Saturday 1 November 2025 at the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board stall
  2. The Parndana Show at the Parndana Pavilion and Oval, Saturday 15 November 2025 at the Kangaroo Island Board stall.

Step 3: Public consultation on the draft Plan

Following input from our community the draft Plan will be open for a six week public consultation 1 February 2026 until 15 March 2026,  via the YourSAy website including online and written submissions.


Step 4: Draft Plan adopted.

Following the public consultation, the final Plan will be presented to the Minister for Environment for adoption.