Environment SA News archive

Tackling Adelaide’s urban heat by cooling roads
30 January 2020
An innovative way to tackle urban heat is underway in Adelaide’s Central Market District with an aim of making our city a more attractive place to work and live.

Food drops to help Kangaroo Island’s starving wildlife
25 January 2020
Drops of food and water will soon start to help save the vulnerable and starving wildlife on Kangaroo Island now that the bushfire is contained.

Rescued koalas taken to new home at Cleland Wildlife Park
24 January 2020
With large amounts of wildlife habitat burnt on Kangaroo Island, the State Government has taken the unusual step of relocating 12 rescued koalas from the island to establish a disease-free population at Cleland Wildlife Park.

Wildlife recovery taskforce formed
24 January 2020
The State Government will establish a Wildlife and Habitat Recovery Taskforce to play a lead role in the environmental response to recent bushfires.

Keep biosecurity in mind when helping KI
23 January 2020
The community has been asked to remember the importance of biosecurity when supporting Kangaroo Island as it recovers from the impacts of recent bushfires.

Native fish recovery
21 January 2020
Native congolli are the most abundant small-bodied fish species in the Lower Lakes for the first time since surveys began in the mid-2000s.

Help select the location of South Australia’s next shellfish reef
20 January 2020
South Australians can now have their say on the location of South Australia’s new metropolitan shellfish reef which will boost fish numbers and create jobs.

Bushfire and recovery
17 January 2020
Fire is part of our ecology, but the recent fires on Kangaroo Island have burnt more vegetation than any fire on the island in almost a century.

Kangaroo Island’s iconic Seal Bay tourism site re-opens to the public
16 January 2020
Seal Bay – one of Kangaroo Island’s premier tourism destinations – has re-opened, after having to close due to the recent bushfire events.

Bushfires on KI ravage glossy black-cockatoo habitat
14 January 2020
The Department for Environment and Water estimates that 75 per cent of South Australia’s endangered glossy black-cockatoo population, found solely on Kangaroo Island, lived within the 210,000 hectares burned in the recent bushfires.