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Sheoak Grassy Woodland recovery

  • Context: Regional

The critically endangered Drooping Sheoak Grassy Woodland on calcrete is a threatened ecological community, located on the calcareous soils of the Eyre Peninsula where annual rainfall exceeds 350mm.

This vegetation community is generally found to the east and south of Ceduna with high priority remnant areas around Streaky Bay, Lake Newland, Elliston and Sheringa. Only approximately 3% of this community remains compared to the vast areas of Eyre Peninsula it used to cover prior to European settlement. This has led to the decline or localised extinction of numerous native animals on Eyre Peninsula including the Greater bilby, Brush-tailed bettong, Tammar wallaby, bandicoots and Diamond Firetail bird.

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This project is funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust and delivered by the EP Landscape Board, a member of the Commonwealth Regional Delivery Partners Panel.

In mid-2024, we began work on a Sheoak Grassy woodland Recovery project. Works have been implemented across a 700,000 hectare area on priority sites with the aim of improving the condition of the community through threat abatement activities and increasing distribution through revegetation.

 We are collaborating with key land managers and First Nations people to implement priority on-ground work activities including managing total grazing pressure by limiting the impacts of livestock, kangaroos, rabbits, goats and deer, and environmental weed control.

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