The Reserve Management team and Nature Foundation volunteers recently held the inaugural working bee at Mongolurring Nature Reserve in September 2025. Located east of Mount Bryan in South Australia’s midnorth, this 1,200-hectare area of mallee woodland was generously donated to Nature Foundation by a benefactor in June 2024. 

Volunteers Sonia and Tim Croft undertook an initial vegetation assessment in October 2024, which, in addition to assessing vegetation types and habitats across the western side of the reserve, identified evidence of invasive weeds, including African Boxthorn (Lycium ferocissum) and a localised patch of Horehound (Marrubium vulgare). Further assessment found African Boxthorn widespread across the nature reserve, with mature, dense patches dominating some areas.

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.

Following another successful Artist Residency Program and exhibition, applications are open for the 2026 Artist Residency Program.

A group of eager Nature Foundation volunteers and staff undertook our first working bee at Bullock Bridge Nature Reserve following its acquisition in early 2024, and the subsequent baseline biodiversity monitoring surveys that were conducted throughout late 2024 to mid-2025.

Baseline biodiversity monitoring surveys are conducted across all of our nature reserves following acquisition to determine the landscape's initial state, allowing us to develop tailored conservation management plans and measure the impacts of our efforts.

We are delighted to share another year of outputs, outcomes and impact with you in the 2025 Impact Report.

The 2025 financial year saw further significant progress towards the five goals as outlined in our Strategic Plan: Towards 2030.

The nature of the work we do means there are many outputs and outcomes; however, we are focused on translating these into meaningful impacts that make a real difference to the landscapes, species and communities we aim to transform.