Threatened species recovery has become Second Nature to our core goals
Activity From Mulgundawa to Tungkillo Biodiversity Links Project
We are really proud to be propagating and planting a range of threatened flora species to return back into their known habitat as part of a number of SNC current projects over the past year.
Second Nature’s professional nursery managers Ben and Sam have had another busy year producing a range of native plants including a suite of rare, threatened and declining flora species using seed and in some cases, cuttings material.
This propagation is part of SNC’s wider nursery operations, which currently produces more than 120,000 local native provenance seedling per growing season. This conservation work has been made possible by the amazing support from dedicated teams of trained volunteers, who lovingly work to tube up, water, weed and nurture the seedlings to maturity. Their hard work is done with enthusiasm, healthy doses of humor and a great deal of tenacity. Thanks so very much to you all.
All of these threatened flora seedlings have made it out into the field to one or more of the dozens of current biodiversity restoration sites we are undertaking revegetation on, with these plants having being carefully planted by our skilled field crew according to projects planned by our knowledgeable project officers, who are working towards high end conservation outcomes which aim to re-create biodiverse plant communities.
Highlights from the 2025 planting season have included the planting of threatened flora species including more than 500 Olearia pannosa ssp. pannosa (Silver Daisy Bush), over 50 Acacia rhetinocarpa (Resin wattle), 800 Acacia menzelii (Menzel’s wattle), 117 Olearia passerinoides ssp. glutescens (Sticky Daisy Bush), 120 Mentha diemenica (Slender mint), 100 Mentha satuaroides ( Native Pennyroyal), 357 Calocephalus citreus (Leamon beauty heads) and 120 Adriana quadripartita (Coast bitter-bush). We also grow dozens of rare, declining and uncommon flora species that are continuing to see a noted decline in the wild.
Some Second Nature Conservancy projects these plants are contributing to include -
Mulgundawa to Tungkillo Biodiversity Links Project – Funded by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board via Landscape Levies
Kanmantoo Woodland Revegetation Program – Funded by the Native Vegetation Council Hills and Fleurieu revegetation grant funding.
