SAAL appointed a regional delivery partner
The SA Arid Lands Landscape Board and the state’s seven other regional landscape boards have been appointed to a national panel of regional delivery partners (RDPs) set up by the Australian Government.
The panel will be used to deliver on-ground environmental protection, sustainable agriculture and natural resource management activities across Australia and can be contracted to do so by any part of the Australian Government.
These activities could include revegetation to restore the habitat of threatened species, fire management action, erosion control and feral animal management.
SA Arid Lands Landscape Board General Manager, Jodie Gregg-Smith said the continued partnership with the Australian Government to deliver many aspects of the Board’s strategic plan will broaden the board’s impact, building on the income from landscape and water levies. Additionally the opportunity to deliver critical outcomes on matters of national or global significance in habitat protection, monitoring and protection of critically endangered or at risk species builds on the work of the board, community and partners over several years.
She said the Board is delighted to have finally secured resourcing to deliver projects and on-ground outcomes for the environment and the SA Arid Lands community
“Our appointment to the panel speaks to our capabilities and success as a system of Landscape Boards.”
This announcement comes as regional landscape boards finalise their five-year funding arrangements with the Australian Government.
The arrangements will see more than $50 million from the Natural Heritage Trust flow into South Australia for practical on-ground projects to support environmental protection, sustainable agriculture and natural resource management.
The Panel of Regional Delivery Partners is available to all Australian Government departments to access valuable on-ground natural resource management services.
