Community grants recipients announced Revised Water Allocation Plan consultation Landscape SA Bill introduced to Parliament Draft Kangaroo Management Plan open for comment Going beyond for threatened species Taking control of feral pigs Permits needed for dam works Project has left a landscape legacy Drought support funding available Return of nature's eco-system engineers Marree-Innamincka NRM Group sets priorities Pastoral Board news Communiques and minutes EVENTS ROUND UP Secret Rocks Stickybeaks Chemcert accreditation Kids on Country Workshopping with water NRM EVENTS NRM SAAL Board meetings
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Community grants recipients announced

The SA Arid Lands NRM Board is funding almost $100,000 for 14 projects across the region as part of its 2019/20 Community Grants Projects.  Twenty-nine applications were received, totalling more than $200,000.  

View the full list of grant recipients

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Revised Water Allocation Plan consultation

Written submissions will soon be invited for the revised Far North Water Allocation Plan, which will open for consultation in August. Copies of the revised plan will be available from our website and drop-in sessions will be held in the region.

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Landscape SA Bill introduced to Parliament

The Landscape SA Bill, which was introduced to Parliament in March, passed through the House of Assembly with minor amendments in early June. To keep up to date with what’s happening in the reform process keep an eye on the your say website.

Find out more

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Draft Kangaroo Management Plan open for comment

Proposed changes to the way abundant kangaroo species and the commercial kangaroo industry are managed and monitored are now open for consultation.

Read more and have your say

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Going beyond for threatened species

Monitoring of the threatened Flinders Ranges Purple-spotted Gudgeon was the focus of a training day involving Friends of Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park, Nantawarrina IPA Rangers and SA Arid Lands NRM staff.

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Taking control of feral pigs

Trapping two feral pigs on Martins Well Station the night before a feral pig workshop run by the North Flinders NRM Group provided an opportunity for participants to get a first-hand look at pig behaviours.

Find out more about the workshop and new laws governing feral pigs

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Permits needed for dam works

Thinking of building a new dam, deepening or enlarging an existing dam or cleaning out an on‐stream dam?  Then you may need a Water Affecting Activities (WAA) Permit.

Check your requirements

 

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Project has left a landscape legacy

The ability to capture a snapshot of the broad range of soil management and rehabilitation activites that have occurred across the region is considered one of the highlights of the Landscape Legacies project, which finished on 30 June 2019.

View the results and case studies

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Drought support funding available

A variety of support services are available to families and businesses in the region facing hardship due to the drought and dry conditions.

Find out more

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Return of nature's eco-system engineers

Echidna numbers appear to be on the increase at Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park.  Monitoring cameras used by park rangers are capturing a greater number of animals and a marked increase in echidna diggings has been noticed.

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Marree-Innamincka NRM Group sets priorities

The Marree-Innamincka NRM Group worked on planning its priorities for the coming year at its May meeting at Innamincka. The meeting also incorporated a Strategic Management Planning session for Coongie Lakes and was attended by local residents and representatives of the district’s pastoral properties.

See the pictorial wrap up

 
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Communiques and minutes

Minutes and communiques from the Board are available on our website.

 

EVENTS ROUND UP

 
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Secret Rocks Stickybeaks

Twenty two guests had a close look at rehabilitation works at Secret Rocks in a Stickybeak Day organised by the Gawler Ranges NRM Group.

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Chemcert accreditation

A Chemcert accreditation course held at Yunta and coordinated by the North East Pastoral NRM Group attracted 17 people from the region.

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Kids on Country

Six Port Lincoln High School students have a better understanding of the Gawler Ranges landscape after a SAAL-lead workshop at the Kids on Country Camp at Hiltaba. 

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Workshopping with water

More than 50 per cent of the region’s properties were represented at last month’s geomorphology workshop at Kingoonya.

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NRM EVENTS

Our website has information about Natural Resource Management events in the SAAL region

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