Department for Environment and Water

About biodiversity

Learn about biodiversity and the important role it plays in our lives.

Biodiversity Act

The South Australian Government is committed to introducing legislation to protect and conserve biodiversity.

What are we doing to improve biodiversity?

There are a range of programs underway in South Australia to conserve and restore ecosystems.

Threatened species & ecological communities

Learn about threatened species and threatened ecological communities.

A small yellow footed rock wallaby amongst dried grass and shrubs

Bounceback

Learn about South Australia’s longest running landscape-scale biodiversity program, protecting and restoring the semi-arid environments of the Flinders, Olary, and Gawler ranges.

Acknowledgement of Country

The state government acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

We work in partnership with the First Peoples of South Australia and support their Nations to take a leading role in caring for their Country.