Saving Species:
Why are we losing our precious native flora and fauna?

It’s the cumulative effects of the fragmentation, degradation or outright loss of habitats; the impact of introduced plants and animals, including those introduced into South Australia from other parts of the country.

Even the over-abundance of native animals – like the kangaroo in some areas – threatens other species, like orchids.

The Nature Foundation works in partnership with universities, government departments, private companies, the SA Museum and our zoos to halt the decline of our native species. We help through funding research, on-the-ground projects, surveys and community programs.

Wherever possible, we like these activities to engage and educate the community. And we favour those linked into regional programs that extend across the National Park/reserve system and private landholdings.

We’ve helped save:

• Pigmy Bluetongue Lizard – they thought it was extinct until it was rediscovered in grasslands near Burra by two herpetologists. The Nature Foundation helped fund research work and a schools education program.
• Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby – we helped the Royal Zoological Society of SA take this South Australian icon home to the Flinders Ranges.
• Bilbies – we’ve worked with many groups, to reintroduce Bilbies back into the wild
• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo – we’ve helped ensure its survival on Eyre Peninsula
• Birds of the Mt Lofty Ranges – we’re working with university researchers to stem the decline of species like the Southern Emu Wren