Mt Bold Dam Upgrade

$12.7 million over 3 years

works to provide greater flood protection to downstream communities and environment

Grants to private landholders

$6 million over four years

for heritage agreements on privately managed properties to support improved biodiversity

Community Wastewater Management

$3.3 million over two years

to transfer all Tea Tree Gully Community Wastewater Management System customers to SA Water billing

Science and Biodiversity funding

$3.1 million over three years

to establish a Biodiversity Coordination Unit within the Department for Environment and Water. This includes a $1 million fund over three years from 2023-24 to support on-ground initiatives to bring back birds in the Mt Lofty Ranges

Friends of Parks

$3 million over four years

to the Friends of Parks groups to work in national parks and across the landscape, including on weeding, planting, seed collecting and other nature restoration activities

Commissioner for the River Murray

$2.1 million over four years

to employ a Commissioner for the River Murray in South Australia to reassert the priority of the River Murray in South Australia

Citizen Science Fund

$2 million over four years

for a Citizen Science Fund to harness the power of South Australians who want to contribute to the knowledge about environmental conditions

Escape to reality tourism

$2 million over four years

to support the promotion of nature-based tourism activities in South Australia

Landcare funding

$1 million over four years

to Landcare SA to employ a state Landcare coordinator and assist with ground planting, weeding and other conservation work

Pastoral Lands Unit

$1 million over four years

to the Pastoral Lands Unit to assist with the completion of land condition assessments in the pastoral lands

Conservation Council

$1 million over four years

to the Conservation Council of South Australia to ensure the community voice is properly heard when decisions affecting the environment are proposed

Coastal protection

$200 000 in 2022-23

for a scientific review of options for sand management along Adelaide’s beaches