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Close to 90,000 native fish fin­ger­lings were released at three loca­tions last week as part of efforts to improve fish­ing expe­ri­ences and boost recre­ation­al activ­i­ties at a num­ber of reser­voir reserves across South Australia.

His­toric pho­tos and sto­ries on the Bucks Camp and Box Flat camp­grounds in Ngarkat Con­ser­va­tion Park are being sought by Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Service. 

While inter­na­tion­al trav­el is not an option for most South Aus­tralians, at the Ade­laide Inter­na­tion­al Bird Sanc­tu­ary (AIBS) Nation­al Park — Winaity­i­naityi Pangkara thou­sands of res­i­dent birds are prepar­ing to take flight in a return jour­ney of 25,000 kilometres.

Only two years after their orig­i­nal release, gold­en perch have thrived at Aroona Dam Sanc­tu­ary, near Leigh Creek in the North­ern Flinders Ranges.

Con­ser­va­tion on pri­vate land will get a sig­nif­i­cant boost with the deliv­ery of the first round of Her­itage Agree­ment grants under the State Government’s $3 mil­lion Revi­tal­is­ing Pri­vate Con­ser­va­tion in South Aus­tralia program.