Rangers join the Greenhood Hunt
SAAL staff joined Nantawarrina Rangers and SA Seed Centre botanists for two days of on-Country workshops in October.
Together the group searched for endemic and threatened flora species on Adnyamathanha Country, supporting the Rangers on plant identification skills as board staff continue to search for the Desert Greenhood (Pterostylis xerophila) as part of the Discovery 4 Recovery project
Established more than 25 years ago as Australia’s first Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), Nantawarrina spans 58,000 hectares, adjacent to the southern border of Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park.
The Nantawarrina Rangers actively work on the IPA to restore the land through revegetation, feral animal control, and native species protection. The IPA contains multiple threatened and regionally endemic flora and fauna species, including some listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
During the trip, motion sensor cameras were placed across the IPA to monitor for the presence of Idnya (Western quoll) as well as other threatened fauna and introduced predators like cats and foxes.
This allowed rangers to experience camera set up and installation, how to recognise potential Idnya habitat and the use of monitoring apps.
It is planned that through follow up training, the rangers will be able to independently undertake these surveys on the IPA.
The Discovery 4 Recovery project is funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust and is delivered by the SA Arid Lands Landscape Board, a member of the Commonwealth Regional Delivery Partners panel.
