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A new nation­al park in Adelaide’s south­ern sub­urbs was offi­cial­ly pro­claimed today with the State Gov­ern­ment for­mal­ly estab­lish­ing the Glen­thorne Nation­al Park — Itya­mai­it­pin­na Yarta.

Glossy black-cock­a­too chicks have hatched in amongst burnt bush on Kan­ga­roo Island, boost­ing hopes the endan­gered species can be saved from extinction.

Nature-based tourism in South Aus­tralia will be tur­bocharged with the launch of a $5 mil­lion co-invest­ment fund to fast track recov­ery after coro­n­avirus restric­tions and bush­fires have dev­as­tat­ed much of the state.

West­ern Quoll (Idnya) and Brush­tail Pos­sum (Viri­da) pop­u­la­tions rein­tro­duced into South Australia’s Ikara-Flinders Ranges Nation­al Park have suc­cess­ful­ly endured three years of drought and con­tin­u­al cat and fox predation. 

Staff at Cle­land Wildlife Park in the Ade­laide Hills have proven they are up to the chal­lenge – the Tik­Tok #Blind­ing­Lights Chal­lenge, that is.