Environment SA News archive

Akurra Adnya (Arkaroo Rock) reopens with a welcoming new entry
13 December 2021
As part of the South Australian Government’s Parks 2025 commitment to improve its nature-based tourism offering, stage 1 of upgrades to visitor facilities at Akurra Adnya (Arkaroo Rock) in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park has been completed.

Improvements to the Brachina Gorge Geological Trail are on the way
13 December 2021
Concept planning has been completed to guide upgrades for key nodes along the 20 km self-drive Brachina Gorge Geological Trail.

Community is driving World Heritage for the Flinders Ranges
13 December 2021
Progressing World Heritage for the Flinders Ranges is well underway with support of a Community Reference Group who is championing the bid at a local level.

Access to photograph the most famous tree in the Flinders Ranges coming soon
13 December 2021
Torrential storms ravaged the Flinders Ranges over the Australia Day long weekend earlier this year. In particular, the bridge that provides access to photograph the famous Cazneaux Tree was damaged from flood water.

Hugely successful floodplains watering operations come to end
10 December 2021
Environmental watering at the Chowilla, Pike and Katarapko floodplains has come to an end after a successful four month period which has delivered many important ecological outcomes.

Watch out for Wombats
06 December 2021
Following a spate of wombat deaths in recent months along a stretch of road within the Coorong National Park, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) rangers will shortly deploy camera surveillance to monitor the area.

Renmark man fined for shooting kangaroos without a permit
06 December 2021
A Renmark man was convicted and fined in the Berri Magistrates Court recently for offences relating to the illegal shooting of 27 kangaroos.

$10 million to improve waterbird habitat in the Coorong
03 December 2021
The Commonwealth and South Australian governments are investing $10 million to improve the quality and availability of waterbird habitat throughout the Ramsar-listed Coorong and Lower Lakes.

Volunteers needed to help threatened species recover from Cherry Gardens bushfire
02 December 2021
South Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are calling for volunteers to help identify endangered animals captured in images taken from recovering Cherry Gardens bushland using motion sensing cameras.

Parks of eastern Kangaroo Island celebrated this summer
01 December 2021
This December National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is celebrating the parks of eastern Kangaroo Island as its parks of the month.