Activity From Mulgundawa to Monarto Biodiversity Links Nature Project

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. 

These plants are destined for our first site, one of more than six locations we are working to revegetate this year to buffer and link Ferries MacDonald, Monarto Conservation Park and other significant habitat. More than 45 local flora species have been propagated for the project including 260 rare Olearia passerinoides ssp. glutescens and 350 seedlings of the nationally vulnerable Acacia rhetinocarpa. 

Additionally, we recently inspected the completion of over 4km of fencing to protect and enhance a 55ha patch of floristically diverse remnant mallee scrub at Brinkley, home to over 120 native flora species including the nationally vulnerable Acacia rhetinocarpa (Neat Wattle) and other rare species including Pterostylis robusta (Large Shell orchid), Halgania andromedifolia (Scented blue-flower), Boronia inornata ssp. leptophylla (Dry-land Boronia) and Pultenaea densifolia (Bush-pea).  

We sincerely thank the landholder James Stacey, for his amazing support in completing this critical activity. 

This year’s efforts build on over four years of dedicated biodiversity restoration work in the Monarto South area. We’re creating vital landscape links between Monarto and Ferries McDonald Conservation Parks with the Lower Lakes, collaborating with over 14 landholders to improve biodiversity across more than 300 hectares through active weed control, revegetation and protection of remnant scrub. 

This project is supported by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board through funding from the landscape levies.