A healthy, resilient environment
What success looks like
South Australia’s biodiversity, ecosystems and wildlife are conserved, restored and resilient to climate change. We run world-class national parks and botanic gardens to protect our iconic places and recognise the intrinsic value of nature.
Priorities
- Deliver conservation programs with our partners to protect existing habitat and recover threatened and declining species, ecosystems and landscapes
- Enable access to environmental water and undertake environmental watering in the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin
- Acquire strategic land parcels to add to the reserve system
- Manage our national parks, marine parks and other protected areas for biodiversity conservation outcomes
- Administer appropriate Crown land tenure and manage pastoral leases
- Undertake fire management for biodiversity outcomes
- Manage invasive and impact-causing native species in our national parks
- Support landholders to manage impact causing native species and protect native vegetation
- Regulate and mitigate the impact of development to native vegetation and biodiversity
- Protect, rehabilitate and restore our coastline
- Respect Aboriginal knowledge and incorporate it into planning and management approaches
- Maintain and improve our knowledge of species distribution and abundance across land and seascapes
- Understand the current state and future outlook for biodiversity across the state and prioritise action accordingly
- Engage in strategic research partnerships and provide credible scientific advice to enhance the effectiveness of conservation activity
- Implement Murray-Darling Basin Plan policy
- Deliver state based Basin Plans commitments
Find out more about our parks and places
Our places
National parks visitor information
Botanic Gardens of South Australia
