Landscape Board Meeting August 2021

Highlights: 

• Minister for Environment and Water David Speirs approved the Board's inaugural Regional Landscape Plan.
• The SA Arid Lands Landscape Board met in Hawker in what was the first in an annual commitment to hold meetings in the region.
• Peak Iron Mines provided an overview of current and potential works in the region, predominantly in the Kingoonya and Gawler Ranges districts.
• Board members made a commitment to review the current and long-standing issue of feral goats in the rangelands.
• The Board endorsed a new water accounting project which will support alternative and innovative trials to measure water take in prescribed areas.

Landscape Board Meeting June 2021

Highlights: 

• The board hosted a workshop with key partners to address the issue of wild dog management in the SA Arid Lands region.
• $350,000 has been secured for the Optimising Kangaroo Management in SA project, which is to be a multi-region, multi-partner project addressing the significant threat posed by over-abundant kangaroos.
• New Landscape Group members were endorsed at the meeting, with most of the seven landscape groups now fully subscribed.

Landscape Board Meeting April 2021

Highlights: 

• The Board met with PIRSA representatives to review the current legislative and policy context for managing goats under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019.
• Members were briefed on all operating arrangements, service agreements with DEW and new structures following the final change that means the Bard is now operating as a completely autonomous entity.
• Community feedback on the Board's Landscape Plan and Business Plan was considered.

Landscape Board Meeting February 2021

Highlights: 

• The draft SA Arid Lands 5-year Regional Landscape Plan has been released for consultation.
• Following the adoption of the Far North Prescribed Wells Area Water Allocation Plan by Minister Speirs, the board was notified of next steps in the program to implement the plan. 
• Pastoral Board members joined the SA Arid Lands Board at the February meeting to discuss topics of interest to both boards.
• MP Dan van Holst Pellekaan joined the meeting to exchange information relating to the board's current priorities.

Landscape Board Meeting November 2020

Highlights: 

• The Board commits to a partnership tackling biosecurity issues.
• Development of the new regional Landscape Plan is continuing. 
• Wild Dog baiting takes to the skies.

Landscape Board Meeting September 2020

Highlights: 

• Milestone reached as the final draft of the Water Allocation Plan for the Far North Prescribed Wells was sent to the Minister.
• Overwhelming response to the Board's Grassroots Grants program.
• New district for the SA Arid Lands with the addition of Port Augusta and Quorn to the region.
• Discussion of the Board's role in the management of Kangaroo numbers.

Landscape Board Meeting July 2020

Highlights: 

• The final draft of the Far North Prescribed Wells Area Water Allocation Plan was presented to the Board.
• Board representatives were appointed to district Landscape Groups.
• Partnerships, engagement and participation with First Nations people in the region, as well as options for future engagement opportunities were discussed.
• Members of the SA Arid Lands board were joined by members of the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board for a finance and governance induction.