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If you ven­ture to Para Wirra Con­ser­va­tion Park this sum­mer make sure to keep an eye out for emu chicks, with sev­er­al fam­i­lies of chicks spot­ted in the park. 

In Sep­tem­ber 2020, the Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment and Water (DEW) became aware of sig­nif­i­cant dieback of the man­groves adja­cent to the St Kil­da board­walk with­in the Ade­laide Inter­na­tion­al Bird Sanc­tu­ary Nation­al Park – Winaity­i­naityi Pangkara (AIBS). The cur­rent impact­ed area includes approx­i­mate­ly 10 hectares of man­grove and 35 hectares of salt­marsh adja­cent to the Dry Creek salt field.

Three buoys mark­ing part of the out­er bound­ary of the Kel­li­die Bay Marine Park Sanc­tu­ary zone have recent­ly been deployed in Kel­li­die Bay by Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice SA (NPWS­SA).

Vis­i­tors to Ade­laide Botan­ic Gar­den will have more time to enjoy the garden’s enchant­i­ng land­scapes and excit­ing, world-class curat­ed events through an exten­sion of its open­ing hours.

A unique play space in the Wit­tun­ga Botan­ic Gar­den will start con­struc­tion this week, pro­vid­ing enter­tain­ment for the whole fam­i­ly to enjoy, just one of the many upgrades at the Botan­ic Gar­den fund­ed through the Ade­laide City Deal.