Funds kickstart priority projects in regional SA
More than $4.76 million in state government grants will help a number of vital regional landscape management projects to get underway.
Twelve grants have recently been awarded to several of the state’s landscape boards under the 2024-25 round of the Landscape Priorities Fund (LPF).
Key projects funded in this round include:
- Multi-region feral deer eradication work
- Stopping the flow of post-River Murray flood pests in the Murraylands and Riverland
- Improving roadsides on the Eyre Peninsula through priority weed control and revegetation
- Several key projects on Kangaroo Island, including improvements to the predator exclusion fence to keep feral cats out of the Dudley Peninsula
The fund provides annual grants for landscape boards, which often work in partnership with other organisations, groups and individuals, to invest in large-scale integrated landscape management projects.
Eligible projects can address a range of landscape management issues including vegetation restoration and rehabilitation projects, supporting threatened species, climate resilience and adaptation, ecosystem recovery, sustainable agriculture and supporting recovery from natural disasters.
Department for Environment and Water Landscape Services Director Merridie Martin said the funds help the boards to undertake projects which could otherwise be beyond their usual resourcing.
"Our state’s landscape boards are often the organisations which can make impactful on-ground changes across both public and private land in their regions," Ms Martin said.
"All of the work that is funded through this program is vital for helping to protect our precious natural environment and biodiversity."
For more information, including full descriptions of funded projects, visit Landscape Priorities Fund | Landscape Boards SA
Projects:
Landscape Board | Project title | Funding amount |
Limestone Coast (multi-region project also involving Eyre Peninsula, Hills and Fleurieu, Murraylands and Riverland, Northern and Yorke) | Towards a feral deer free South Australia | $1,000,000 |
Limestone Coast (multi-region project also involving Limestone Coast and Murraylands and Riverland) | Improving landscape health of sandy soils prone to erosion and declining fertility | $160,050 |
Alinytjara Wilurara | Working on Healthy Country Plans | $900,000 |
Murraylands and Riverland | River to Recovery: Stopping the flow of post flood pests | $998,733 |
Kangaroo Island | Management actions for 15 priority weeds on Kangaroo Island | $130,000 |
Kangaroo Island | Supporting the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board Native Plant Nursery Seed Bank | $30,000 |
Kangaroo Island | Technology and Tradition: Integrating Aboriginal knowledge and cutting-edge feral cat management | $60,000 |
Kangaroo Island | Predator exclusion fence improvements to secure the feral cat free Dudley Peninsula | $50,000 |
Murraylands and Riverland (multi-region project also involving Hills and Fleurieu, Limestone Coast and Northern and Yorke) | TURTLE: Together Understanding and Restoring Turtles in our Landscapes and Ecosystems | $450,000 |
South Australian Arid Lands | Sustainable use of undersized goats to protect native habitat and pasture | $275,000 |
Eyre Peninsula | Improving Eyre Peninsula’s roadsides: priority weed control and revegetation | $550,000 |
Eyre Peninsula | Eyre Peninsula Water Allocation Plan Revision | $160,000 |
