Taking the next step with the Iron-grass at Tiliqua
November 24, 2025
Since 2022, 920 Iron-grass plants have been planted across Tiliqua Nature Reserve, a key step in restoring this Critically Endangered ecological community, located near Burra in South Australia’s mid north.
Approximately 680 Iron-grass (Lomandra multiflora ssp. Dura, Lomandra densiflora, and Lomandra effusa) plants, planted at the start of the restoration project, were contained within planting exclosures constructed to protect these highly palatable young plants from grazing by sheep and kangaroos. Three years on, these exclosures can be removed, allowing grazing between the establishing plants and assisting habitat management for the Endangered Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard (Tiliqua adelaidensis) and the Critically Endangered Pale Sun-moth (Synemon selene) that call the nature reserve home.
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