South Australia
Where the vast Nullarbor Plain meets the ocean. South Australia is a land of spectacle. You can see a million birds fishing in the middle of a desert, when Lake Eyre floods. You can watch dozens of whales, swimming and breeding beneath limestone cliffs at the edge of the world’s largest karst landscape filled with unexplored caves, as you stand on the edge between the Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor. It’s a place of wonders and an environment worth fighting for. Our Adelaide office has already helped protect the Great Australian Bite Marine Park, the Yellabinna Wilderness, the Gammon Ranges, Coongie Lakes, and many other places. Help us to protect the rest of the wonders of South Australia.
- Protecting South Australia
- Nullarbor Wilderness Campaign
- SA's Unique Marine Environment
South Australia contains vast areas of wilderness and has some of the highest quality arid and marine wilderness anywhere. Sharing borders with all mainland states, SA is crucial to any vision of continent wide conservation. Protecting core areas and connecting processes in and between these areas is a key WildCountry goal and an aim of The Wilderness Society.
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The Wilderness Society has nominated the Nullarbor Plain for protection under South Australia's Wilderness Protection Act 1992. Recognised internationally for its natural and cultural heritage values, the iconic plain is the largest semi-arid karst cave system in the world. Despite this, the area is under serious threat!
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The Wilderness Society, along with other national and South Australian conservation groups, is campaigning for the protection of our unique marine and coastal environments through the establishment of a system of fully protected marine National Parks and Wilderness Protection Areas.
more »South Australia Updates
- South Australia’s west coast - a truly remarkable place. - November 09, 2008
- The Coorong needs water now! - August 20, 2008
- Mining suspended in victory for Arkaroola - February 17, 2008
Rugged and windswept, SA's west coast contains many spectacular offshore island groups. The giant granite ‘island mountains’ of the Investigator Group rise over 200 metres out of the water.
The Lower Murray Lakes and Coorong area has been starved of water for so long that it is almost dead. We are now dealing with an environmental disaster - and a political embarrassment of international proportions. However, an opportunity now exists to fix this problem. It simply requires the political will to do so.
In a major victory for the campaign to protect the internationally significant Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in South Australia from mining, SA Premier Mike Rann announced on Tuesday 12 February that the Government is suspending drilling operations at Mount Gee indefinitely.
South Australia Events
- Forever Wild Bequest event - Adelaide, 7th December, 2008
1pm - 4pm, Sunday, 7th December, 2008. Ayers House, Henry Ayers Room, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA. The Wilderness Society invites you to our Forever Wild bequest event in Adelaide for 2008, for an insight into our WildCountry vision, an update on local campaigns in South Australia, and a photo exhibition of the amazingly diverse Australian landscapes we campaign to protect followed by afternoon tea.
South Australia Media Releases
- The Coorong needs water now! - August 01, 2008
- Adios to 'cowboy' miner: SA Government congratulated on stopping mining in Arkaroola - March 17, 2008 The Wilderness Society is today celebrating a significant victory in its campaign to protect the internationally significant Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in South Australia from mining.
- Stop the weir: save the River Murray, lakes and the Coorong - February 15, 2007 Environment organisations from across the Murray Darling Basin join forces to stop the building of a weir at Wellington on the Lower Murray.
The Wilderness Society calls for action to fix the dying Lower Murray Lakes and Coorong area, now!
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