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New parks and park additions

Introduction

In South Australia, DENR currently manages over 340 national parks, regional reserves, conservation reserves, conservation parks, game reserves, recreation parks, and wilderness protection areas.

We are continually assessing and purchasing new land to add to South Australia's reserve system under the National Reserve System (NRS) Program. Many of these new parks have been purchased with the assistance of grants and donations.

• See the summary of protected areas in South Australia (25kb pdf).

National Reserve System (NRS) Program

The National Reserve System (NRS) represents the collective efforts of the states, territories, Commonwealth and non-government organisations to achieve an Australian protected area system.

The NRS program was established in 1996 and provides funding, initially through the Natural Heritage Trust, presently via Caring for our Country. This funding assists with the purchase and establishment of protected areas. The goal of the NRS is to establish a comprehensive, adequate and representative reserve system of protected areas which will contribute to the conservation of Australia's native biodiversity.

For more information regarding the National Reserve System visit the Environment Australia website.

NatureLinks

The NatureLinks program, developed in 2002, provides a vision for the conservation of biodiversity in South Australia. The goal of NatureLinks is to enable South Australian species and ecosystems to survive, evolve and adapt to environmental change.

We achieve this by connecting habitats across South Australia which helps ecological flows across land and sea. By proclamation of new protected areas in South Australia, we are adding to the connectedness of habitats which helps species to survive and evolve.