The Mallee Bird Community

The Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board is contributing to the recovery of threatened mallee birds by focussing on the recovery of the mallee bird community.

What is the Mallee Bird Community?

The mallee bird community is short for the Mallee Bird Community of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion. It is a threatened ecological community identified in the Australian Government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). In 2021, the mallee bird community was identified as Endangered.

The mallee bird community is an assemblage of 20 bird species that rely on mallee habitats within the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion for their continued persistence. Ten of these species are individually threatened in South Australia (*) and six of these species are individually threatened in Australia (^).

The Mallee Bird Community

Lead agency

Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board

Project partners

Department of Environment and Water, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Australian Landscape Trust, Gluepot Reserve (Birdlife Australia), River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation, National Malleefowl Recovery Group, Trees for Life, and RLB Ecology.

Funding partner

The Australian Government through the Panel of Regional Delivery Partners framework.

Bulldozers for conservation

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More information

Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board

Unit 5-6, Level 1 Sturt Centre, 2 Sturt Reserve Road, Murray Bridge SA 5253

08 8532 9100

mr.landscapeboard@sa.gov.au