SAVE PROTECT RESTORE NATURE FOUNDATION 2017-2018 SA ANNUAL REPORT OUR FOOTPRINT LAKE EYRE SOUTH AUSTRALIA WITCHELINA 1 Nature Foundation SA owns LAKE six conservation properties, FROME and has contributed to Roxby Downs many conservation initiatives in South Australia LAKE GAIRDNER FLINDERS 5 RANGES NP LAKE 6 TORRENS Ceduna HILTABA 2 Port Augusta 9 1 GAWLER 14 ii RANGES NP 7 2 15 Port Pirie 3 9 8 3 TILIQUA Burra 10 10 Moonta 2 Renmark Waikerie 3 7 PARA 11-13 4 WOODLANDS 11 PROPERTIES CURRENTLY OWNED/ 4 16 1 CO-OWNED OR MANAGED/ 6 23 Loxton CO-MANAGED BY NFSA Port Lincoln 12 17 1 Witchelina 4 Para Woodlands ADELAIDE 5 13 RIVER MURRAY 2 Hiltaba 5 Watchalunga 1 14 Murray Bridge 3 Tiliqua 6 Cygnet Park 15 3 16 8 WATCHALUNGA WATER FOR NATURE 5 Kingscote Victor 2 WATERING SITES Harbor 6 Meningie 1 Lower River Murray & Lakes (10 sites) Since 2008 WFN has worked 2 Riverland West (29 sites) with communities to deliver CYGNET 3 Riverland East (65 sites) over 11,000 megalitres of 17 environmental water to SA River PARK Murray wetlands and fl oodplains. Bordertown PROPERTIES ACQUIRED BY OR WITH NFSA SUPPORT 4 18 BUSHBANKSA PROPERTIES 1 Scrubby Peak Station 13 Kenneth Stirling CP PROTECTED AREAS ON PRIVATE LAND 19 2 Paney Station 14 Mount George CP (COVENANTED VIA BUSHBANKSA) 24 3 Venus Bay CP 15 Mark Oliphant CP 4 Tucknott Scrub 16 Glenshera Swamp 1 Clayton Road, 8 Mount Magnifi cent 5 Wilpena Station 17 Salt Creek Kangarilla 9 Yatina Bushland 20 6 Boolcoomatta Station 18 Bangham NP 2 Macintosh Way, 10 Hallelujah Hills 7 Mount Remarkable NP 19 Frances Parklands Coonalpyn 11-13 Blanchetown 8 Caroona Creek 20 Lake St Clair CP 3 Meyer Scrub Bushland Estate (x3) Mt Gambier 9 Mokota CP 21-22 Carpenter Rocks 4 Padthaway 14 Yandiah 10 Gluepot Station (x2) 5 Ironbank 15 Beetaloo Valley 21-22 11 Portee Station 23 South Buckland Lake 6 Crosers Scrub 16 Ridley 12 Sandy Creek CP 24 Eaglehawk Waterhole 7 Point Drummond 17 Kaon OUR FOOTPRINT OUR VISION Nature LAKE EYRE loved by all and SOUTH AUSTRALIA thriving. WITCHELINA 1 Nature Foundation SA owns LAKE six conservation properties, FROME and has contributed to Roxby Downs NATURE many conservation initiatives in South Australia FOUNDATION SA INC. LAKE GAIRDNER FLINDERS 5 RANGES NP LAKE 6 CONTENTS Ceduna TORRENS HILTABA 2 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2 Port Augusta 3 CEO’S REPORT 9 1 GAWLER 14 4 STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS RANGES NP 7 2 15 5 ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES Port Pirie 6 WE CAN ALWAYS DO MORE! 3 9 8 3 TILIQUA 8 PEOPLE HELPING NATURE Burra 10 10 11 SCIENCE FOR NATURE CONSERVATION Moonta 2 Renmark 14 MANAGING ECOLOGY AND CULTURE Waikerie 3 7 PARA 11-13 16 GOVERNANCE 4 WOODLANDS 11 PROPERTIES CURRENTLY OWNED/ 4 16 17 RESERVES FOR NATURE CONSERVATION 1 CO-OWNED OR MANAGED/ 6 23 Loxton CO-MANAGED BY NFSA Port Lincoln 12 17 20 OUR COUNCIL 1 Witchelina 4 Para Woodlands ADELAIDE 5 13 RIVER MURRAY 2 Hiltaba 5 Watchalunga 1 22 WE THANK OUR PATRONS 14 Murray Bridge 3 Tiliqua 6 Cygnet Park 15 3 23 HONOUR ROLL 16 8 WATCHALUNGA WATER FOR NATURE 5 Kingscote Victor 2 25 OUR STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WATERING SITES Harbor 6 Meningie 1 Lower River Murray & Lakes (10 sites) Since 2008 WFN has worked 26 FINANCIAL REPORT 2 Riverland West (29 sites) with communities to deliver CYGNET 3 Riverland East (65 sites) over 11,000 megalitres of 17 36 CORPORATE PARTNERS environmental water to SA River PARK Murray wetlands and fl oodplains. Bordertown PROPERTIES ACQUIRED BY OR Nature Foundation SA. 32 Holden Street, Hindmarsh SA 5007 WITH NFSA SUPPORT 4 18 PO Box 448, Hindmarsh, SA 5007 BUSHBANKSA PROPERTIES 1 Scrubby Peak Station 13 Kenneth Stirling CP PROTECTED AREAS ON PRIVATE LAND 19 Phone: 08 8340 2880 Email: [email protected] 2 Paney Station 14 Mount George CP (COVENANTED VIA BUSHBANKSA) 24 Images courtesy of Subbu Conley, 3 Venus Bay CP 15 Mark Oliphant CP 4 Tucknott Scrub 16 Glenshera Swamp 1 Clayton Road, 8 Mount Magnifi cent Bruce Hobby, Julie Schofield, facebook.com/NFSAI @NatureFSA 20 5 Wilpena Station 17 Salt Creek Kangarilla 9 Yatina Bushland Rebecca Clark, John Gilpin, Rebecca @NatureFoundation_SA 6 Boolcoomatta Station 18 Bangham NP 2 Macintosh Way, 10 Hallelujah Hills Clark, Patrick Mentzel, Katie Perry 7 Mount Remarkable NP 19 Frances Parklands Coonalpyn 11-13 Blanchetown and Natasha Harper . 8 Caroona Creek 20 Lake St Clair CP 3 Meyer Scrub Bushland Estate (x3) Mt Gambier www.naturefoundation.org.au 9 Mokota CP 21-22 Carpenter Rocks 4 Padthaway 14 Yandiah 10 Gluepot Station (x2) 5 Ironbank 15 Beetaloo Valley 21-22 11 Portee Station 23 South Buckland Lake 6 Crosers Scrub 16 Ridley 12 Sandy Creek CP 24 Eaglehawk Waterhole 7 Point Drummond 17 Kaon Hiltaba Nature Reserve, by Julie Schofield PRESIDENT’S HELLO TO ALL NATURE FOUNDATION SA MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS. THE 2017–18 YEAR HAS BEEN A REPORT YEAR OF CHANGE FOR YOUR FOUNDATION. I wish to thank all those who voted for me as President at the last conservation values of a neighbouring conversation park and forestry reserve. election. I believed that I was being asked to continue the entrepreneurial We experienced significant increases in demand for offsets in the development I listed in my how to vote documentation and which I have form of Significant Environmental Benefits (SEB) and Carbon. Working proudly created since joining Council in 2004. with the Petroleum and Gas sector resulted in the acquisition of the I am particularly proud of the purchase and development of property amazing Witchelina Nature Reserve near Maree. Nine years on and with ownership after the purchase of Witchelina, Cygnet River, Tiliqua, the significant increase in activity in the renewable energy and mining and Watchalunga, and Hiltaba, and the concept of the Rotational Manager system resources sectors, Nature Foundation SA continued to work in partnership I put in place; the creation of the Water for Nature Concept; Development with those sectors on a range of projects that have the prospect of protecting of SEB third party credits (creating over $4M of income); conceiving and very significant areas of important ecosystems. developing the Carbon Credit opportunities; endeavouring to formalise a Our dear patron and co-founder, Dr Barbara Hardy AO turned 90 in structure for Volunteers For Nature; supporting positive relationships with 2017. We helped Barbara, her wider family and 200 guests celebrate at a the Traditional Owners at all of our properties and the areas along the River dazzling dinner at Bonython hall which including Wines by Geoff Hardy and Murray in which we have an interest; giving at times solo support to the exquisite Australian food by Andrew Fielke. It would be no surprise to you group headed by the Rotational Managers to develop Ecotourism; developing to know that Barbara agreed to the celebration only on the proviso that the relationships with the Geology fraternity; forming the Science Committee; event was a fundraiser for Nature Foundation. You, our generous supporters, introducing The Grand Working Bee concept; the Founders Walks concept at helped raise $45,000 for nature conservation. Hiltaba; the need to develop a Bequest Society; the commitment to seriously There was significant change at the Council level. After nearly 50 years develop grant writing capacity; the Very Special Morning Teas, and of course of incredibly committed service between them, David Moyle AM (28 years) the College of Nature Champions. and Rob Morrison OAM (21 years) stepped down from Council at the 2017 Following the personal support of Nature Foundation SA’s membership AGM. Everything you see at Nature Foundation SA today has been shaped in at the elections last year, unfortunately I did not receive the support of those some way by them. Elected to Council at the same AGM: Jan Ferguson OAM, on the Council who had supported my challenger, so this past year has been Professor Phil Weinstein and Treasurer Doug Ransom have contributed to the least successful year for me and the Council since I joined. governing your Foundation. We were also disappointed that Councillor Tony For the Council to operate going forward it was clear I had to resign as Sharley, a significant leader in the Murray River Community and Chair of 2 President – I did this as I believed there was now a Councillor who could the Water For Nature Committee had to resign because of the incredible potentially continue much of what I had introduced. I don’t believe that I could explosion in the success of his award-winning tourism venture. not continue to lead the right Council and Nature Foundation SA to even Highlights for 2017–18 are: greater achievements but I could not do it currently. > A better-than-budget financial result by $45,000 At the November 2017 Council meeting a surprise paper was presented > Membership growing to exceed 700. There was a large increase prior to to completely restructure the Committee system, which had grown in the last AGM. parallel with the incredible expansion the Foundation had experienced over > Water For Nature nearly doubled the volume of River Murray floodplain the previous 30 years. The 12 committees and working parties were to be environmental watering. restructured into three strategy committees – this process took eight to nine > Forty-three Aboriginal school students participating in our Kids on months to eventuate. Country program in the first half of 2018, due to the wonderful grant The year also saw a change in the Nature Foundation SA committee from Perpetual, and in partnership with the participating schools, structure.