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Bounceback

Bounceback is one of DENR's major conservation programs aimed at protecting and restoring the semi-arid environments of the Flinders and Gawler Ranges and Olary Hills of South Australia.

The program works across a range of landholdings, including national park reserves, privately managed sanctuaries and pastoral properties in these regions. Most of the national park reserves where the program operates are ex-pastoral leases now owned by the South Australian Government. They are managed for conservation purposes as part of the National Reserve System.

When it started in the early 1990s, Bounceback focused on reducing threats to yellow-footed rock-wallaby populations in the Olary Hills and Flinders Ranges. Over the years, the program has grown significantly, both in terms of its geographic spread and the activities undertaken, which combine conservation and threat abatement initiatives. The program currently contributes to the delivery of conservation and threat abatement activities within the Flinders-Olary and East meets West Naturelinks.  

More information:

• see the range of Bounceback activities (45kb pdf)
• the original goals and objectives of Bounceback (78kb pdf)
• what has Bounceback achieved so far? (77kb pdf)
• degradation to the Bioregions before the project started. (72kb pdf)