Discovery For Recovery

The new five-year Discovery for Recovery project will focus on the protection of endangered fauna and flora species in the SA Arid Lands region.

The Western Quoll, Purple-spotted Gudgeon, Arckaringa Daisy and Desert Greenhood are the project's four focus species, with work undertaken in previous board projects will be continued.

Targeted fox control will reduce key threats to the Western Quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii), complementing existing management programs, to reduce predation and enhance landscape scale connectivity between key sites to support past reintroduction efforts of this species.

This project will continue to monitor quolls, as well as Arckaringa Daisy (Olearia arckaringensis), and key populations of Flinders Ranges Purple-spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda clivicola), to better understand population status, trends and inform future management actions. It will also involve surveys for Desert Greenhood (Pterostylis xerophila) to understand its population status and extent.

Through work on this project, the board will partner with First Nations Groups, conservation organisations and the wider community to better understand and encourage participation in ongoing conservation efforts of EPBC-listed species and habitats.

Discovery for Recovery is funded by the Australian Government's Natural Heritage Trust.