Welcome to NatureLinks

NatureLinks is a practical approach to conserve South Australia’s plants and animals by managing and restoring large areas of habitat across South Australia. These areas of habitat, within broad ‘biodiversity corridors’, will enable our native wildlife to survive and adapt to environmental change. The NatureLinks program recognises that a healthy and diverse environment is crucial to South Australia’s social and economic well-being.

The Government of South Australia is working with conservation organisations, landholders and local communities to restore and manage stretches of land and sea across the breadth of each corridor. This includes existing conservation areas on public and private land, and seeking new opportunities for expanding these conservation areas.

Target 3.2 of South Australia’s Strategic Plan is to, By 2010, have five well-established biodiversity corridors aimed at maximising ecological outcomes particularly in the face of climate change. The Government of South Australia is progressing this target through the planning and development of five landscape-scale corridors across the state: Arid Lands NatureLink, Cape Borda to Barossa NatureLink, East meets West NatureLink, Flinders-Olary NatureLink, and the River Murray-Coorong NatureLink.

NatureLinks is a central component of the South Australian Government’s No Species Loss strategy, the aim of which is to minimise the decline of our biodiversity. NatureLinks builds on, and is complementary to, existing conservation efforts such as State and regional natural resource management plans, regional biodiversity strategies, and South Australia’s Greenhouse Strategy.

Working together, the people of South Australia can secure the social, economic and environmental future of the state.