Creating Three Safer Havens

A landmark partnership with the Department for Environment and Water to establish unfenced Safer Havens across three public national parks in South Australia, delivering 11 projects that restore habitat, reintroduce and protect species, and rebuild functioning ecosystems in their natural environments.

The Project

This project will establish three unfenced Safer Havens across public national parks in semi-arid South Australia, enabling the reintroduction of threatened and culturally significant species, restoring habitat, and strengthening climate resilience.

Delivered over three years, the partnership comprises 11 projects — with two to be announced — working together to rebuild resilient, functioning ecosystems.

If successful, in five years these landscapes will look very different — with species returned, habitats recovering, and ecosystems beginning to function as they should.

Flinders Ranges Short-tailed Grasswren

$11,832 / $80,000

Protecting Threatened Plants

$45,550 / $100,000

Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby

$76,206 / $150,000

Repopulation of the Western Quoll

$114,147 / $130,000

Securing Red-tailed Phascogale

$204,130 / $300,000

Recovering Iconic Plant Species

$75,685 / $100,000

Protecting the Sandhill Dunnarts

$61,391 / $75,000

Securing the Flinders Ranges...

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Rebuilding Malleefowl Populations

100%
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"Three Safer Havens is ambitious, grounded in science, and built on years of work. It carries real risk, but if we’re serious about saving species, we need to accept it and back bold, practical projects that deliver real impact on the ground, and the people who make them happen."

Tracy McNamara, Chief Executive Officer

All 11 projects need your support for overall success.

About the Three Safer Havens

Over eleven years of partnership, FAME and the Department for Environment and Water have delivered significant ecological outcomes and demonstrated the value of public–private collaboration. Together, we have returned the Western Quoll (chuditch, locally idnya) and Brushtail Possum (virlda) to South Australia’s central and northern Flinders Ranges, and are now reintroducing the Red-tailed Phascogale (kengoor) to the Gawler Ranges.

To support and sustain these populations, we will establish three unfenced Safer Havens, each approximately 500 km², across three public national parks — Ikara–Flinders Ranges, Vulkathunha–Gammon Ranges and Gawler Ranges. Within these shared landscapes, we will restore habitat, recover threatened and iconic species, reverse local extinctions, and reduce key threats.

For more information on our project partner, along with latest news visit: https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/biodiversity/bounceback

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