Mulgundawa To Monarto Biodiversity Links - Phase 3 Nature Project
This nature project is supported by the
Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board through funding from the Landscape Levies.
The Objective
To conserve native vegetation and habitat through various project activities.
This project is currently implementing biodiversity on-ground works to continue to buffer and link Ferries MacDonald and Monarto Conservation Parks and to create landscape links with the Lower Lakes.
This project builds on more than 5 years of proactive and strategic biodiversity work in the Monarto South area by the improvement and revegetation of remnant bushland on private land.
This project’s activities aim to benefit flora and fauna including the nationally vulnerable Mallee Fowl, Brinkley Wattle (Acacia Rhetinocarpa) and a suite of other conservation significant species.
Further Details…
Key activities for this project include;
Improving floristic diversity of 28 Ha of existing revegetation with in-fill planting of 4500 local native seedlings including threatened flora
Establishing 30 hectares of diverse revegetation using 3500 local native seedlings and via machine direct seeding on 1 site buffering Ferries Mac-Donald
Fencing a 52 hectare block of remnant mallee which has over 120 recently recorded flora species and important fauna populations
Guided revegetation tours in 2024 and 2025 to inform interested landowners on a variety of approaches and techniques, and guided threatened flora walks to highlight different species of conservation status in the region.
A landscape approach to linking and involving landholders in the project area via site visits, planning and technical advice; with potential new sites being garnered through targeted approaches
Planting of targeted species for increased habitat values and food resources for birds including the Orange-bellied parrot, Australasian Bittern and the endangered Yellowish-sedge skipper.
Enjoy a birds eye view of some of the revegetation sites from our Mulgundawa to Monarto Biodiversity Links Project, taken by our Project Officer Dylan.
This gives you some sense of the scale of works being undertaken, and the importance of creating biodiversity links between conservation parks and privately held land.
Nature Project Activity
The Second Nature trailer is all loaded up with beautiful Monarto South plants from our Goolwa nursery, ready for commencement of planting for the Mulgundawa to Monarto Biodiversity Links Phase 2 project…