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Spring into Para Wirra Con­ser­va­tion Park this month

With native orchids bloom­ing and warmer sun­ny days on the hori­zon, Sep­tem­ber is a great time to vis­it Para Wirra Con­ser­va­tion Park, north of Adelaide.

After-dark events com­ing up at Ade­laide Botan­ic Garden

Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of the recent ​‘Bien­ni­al After Dark’ event, and with the con­tin­ued eas­ing of COVID-19 restric­tions in SA, the Botan­ic Gar­dens and State Herbar­i­um is run­ning two events in Octo­ber as its Botan­i­ca Lumi­na pro­gram is offi­cial­ly re-lit. 

Wild­flow­ers bloom­ing on Yorke Peninsula

Right now is a per­fect time to head to Yorke Penin­su­la with spring com­ing ear­ly to Dhil­ba Guu­ran­da-Innes Nation­al Park, and bring­ing with it a spec­tac­u­lar dis­play of wildflowers.

New man­age­ment plan for bird sanc­tu­ary takes flight

Bet­ter pro­tec­tion for wildlife and increas­ing vis­i­tor num­bers are key parts of a new park man­age­ment plan for Adelaide’s inter­na­tion­al bird sanctuary.

New tech­nol­o­gy reveals high­er than expect­ed sea lion numbers

A com­bi­na­tion of unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle (UAV) tech­nol­o­gy and pho­togram­me­try soft­ware has seen researchers detect greater than ever pup num­bers dur­ing suc­ces­sive Aus­tralian sea lion breed­ing sea­son sur­veys in the Great Aus­tralian Bight.