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Turning olive trees into McLaren Vale wine
16 June 2021
An innovative new pilot project in Adelaide’s southern suburbs is removing feral olive trees from national parks and turning them into a product which is helping grow grapes at McLaren Vale vineyards.

River Murray water allocations to open at 100 per cent
15 June 2021
South Australian River Murray water allocations will open at the full 100 per cent for the 2021-22 water year.

First Peoples workshop previews Master Plan process for Lock 3, Bookmark Creek, Weir Pool 3
10 June 2021
Camp Kedron on the banks of Lake Barmera was the perfect location for a recent Sustaining Riverland Environments (SRE) workshop with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC).

More than 20 projects to benefit from heritage grants
09 June 2021
Twenty-one State Heritage-listed properties will share in $250,000 of grant funding to help conserve the significant sites under the third round of the SA Heritage Grants Program.

Cleland’s koala feeding experience returns for long weekend
08 June 2021
Cleland Wildlife Park’s hugely popular koala feeding experience is set to return this June long weekend for the first time after they were put on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Let’s make Adelaide the world’s second National Park City
07 June 2021
South Australia is making a historic push to have Adelaide become the world’s second National Park City, a move which coincided with World Environment Day on 5 June.

Ngarrindjeri lead community on tour of the Kurangk (Coorong)
04 June 2021
Members of the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) - Community Advisory Panel joined staff from the Department for Environment and Water to take part in a Ngarrindjeri-led tour of the Kurangk (Coorong) this week.

Sand movement set to replenish Semaphore South dunes
03 June 2021
Sand movement work gets underway today to replenish dunes at Semaphore South, north of the Point Malcolm breakwater. The dunes suffered erosion following bad weather and high tides last week.

Escape winter in Mount Remarkable National Park this June
02 June 2021
To celebrate the start of winter, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is celebrating one of the state’s great winter parks, Mount Remarkable National Park, as Park of the Month in June.

Biologists on quest to map unique plant species on Kangaroo Island
02 June 2021
Local ecologists and botanists have been undertaking an urgent and very unique quest among fire-damaged vegetation on western Kangaroo Island, in a search to find and map native plant species, some of which have not been observed in almost a century.