A new research project is aiming to boost revegetation efforts across the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Adelaide University PhD student Shannon Evenden has received a $25,000 scholarship to investigate why some landholders aren’t taking part in local initiatives, and what could be offered instead to maximise conservation efforts across the region.
Evenden said identifying and addressing barriers to revegetation participation will help to address the degradation of the Australian landscape and its function.
“This ecological pressure is now colliding with a changing climate as South Australia warms and dries, and drought becomes an ever-present occurrence,” Evenden said.
“With conditions predicted to only become worse, the impact of declining landscape health and exposure to a changing climate on farmer and rural community wellbeing cannot be overstated.”
“To restore landscape health and increase resilience to a changing climate, revegetation is paramount and urgent.”
Listen below to Shannon Evenden’s interview with ARN Regional’s Chris Guscott, as part of Around SA:
