by Stavroula Tsapaliaris | Apr 10, 2025 | Grants, community, News
Round two of the Native Vegetation Council’s Restoration Grants 2024 – 2026 is now open to landowners in Murraylands and Riverland, Limestone Coast and Hills and Fleurieu and will close on the 16 May 2025. Restoration grants are for long term (5 – 10 year)...
by Stavroula Tsapaliaris | Apr 7, 2025 | Grants, community, News
South Australia’s dedicated environmental volunteers will share in more than $779,000 of State Government funding to help them protect our precious national parks and landscape biodiversity. Grants of up to $15,000 from the latest round of the Friends of Parks and...
by Kate Marshall | Jan 29, 2025 | Board, community, News, Organisational tips, volunteering
Across South Australia, Friends of Parks and Nature groups play a vital role in caring for our environment. From restoring habitats to monitoring wildlife, volunteers help ensure our parks, reserves, and natural spaces remain thriving and beautiful. But like any...
by Kate Marshall | Nov 14, 2023 | community, News
The Tangier Pea Story from Para Wirra When I was getting to know Para Wirra as a new Ranger in 1998, I noticed there was one hillside in the South Para Valley that turned an attractive shade of pink-purple every November. A creeper not unlike the garden Sweet Pea was...
by Mitchell Brennan | Sep 1, 2022 | Grants, community, News
Dear Friends of Parks member groups, To further support the substantial work undertaken by Friends of Parks groups across South Australia’s national park reserves and other important conservation-based initiatives, the Minister for Climate, Environment and Water has...
by Carole Pinnock | Sep 3, 2021 | community, Citizen Science, Events, Survey, volunteering, Walking
Great Southern Bioblitz (October 22-25) the ‘Great Southern BioBlitz’, or ‘GSB’ for short, is an international period of intense biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within several designated areas across the...
