Bounceback Southern Flinders

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Bayonet Spider-orchid Photo: Yvonne Steed

A recent initiative by the Department for Environment and Heritage is the extension of the acclaimed Bounceback Program (500KbPDF) to incorporate the southern Flinders Ranges. Bounceback Southern Flinders is an ecological restoration program that operates in the Flinders Ranges and Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Parks and surrounding pastoral properties. The primary focus of Bounceback is the promotion of ecosystem recovery, by reducing the impacts of introduced plants and feral animals and assisting the recovery of threatened species.

The southern Flinders Ranges contain the Northern and Yorke Region's largest area of remnant vegetation, which includes examples of Eucalypt forests, open mallee woodlands, shrublands and grasslands. The goal of Bounceback Southern Flinders is to facilitate the rehabilitation and conservation of the ecosystems of this unique area.

Although in its infancy, Bounceback Southern Flinders already incorporates an extensive fox control program on Mt Remarkable National Park with weed control strategies currently being developed. Recovery programs are already in place for the threatened species, including:

• Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus ssp. xanthopus
• Superb Groundsel Senecio megaglossus (450Kb PDF)
• Krefft's Tiger Snake Notechis scutatus; Krefft's form (400Kb PDF)
• Bayonet Spider-orchid Caladenia gladiolata (250Kb PDF)
• Woolcock's Spider-orchid Caladenia woolcockiorum (100Kb PDF)
• Mount Remarkable Leek Orchid Prasophyllum validum