About Us
Arkaba Environmental Projects is a charity with a focus on restoring habitat and species in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. Most of our efforts are focussed on Arkaba Conservancy, a spectacular 63,000 acre property, bordering Ikara/Wilpena Pound and the Flinders Ranges National Park
Arkaba Conservancy
European settlers arrived in the Flinders in the early 1850s with livestock, displacing Aboriginal people from water sources and country that had sustained them over generations. Sheep and cattle brought a grazing regime and hoofed traffic to a landscape unprepared for it. When the next and subsequent dry cycles came, the fragility of the Flinders’ semi-arid country became very apparent - settlers lost their livelihoods but the damage to vegetation and soils was long-lasting. The result has been degraded landscapes and the loss of countless species, a story that is replicated across Australia.
Arkaba's life as a sheep station started in 1851 as settlers moved into the Flinders and it continued as such until 2010 when a process of destocking was initiated. Arkaba's more rugged range country escaped the worst impact of grazing sheep and now provides the setting for a story of land use transition from pastoral to conservation, with tourism as a key stream of income.
Arkaba Environmental Projects
The challenge is in ensuring a sustainable future for Arkaba as its guardians (everyone who comes into contact with us) seek to bring a thriving native flora and fauna back into its landscape. Arkaba Environmental Projects was born out of this challenge and to provide a channel for guests, scientists and those keen to learn and to contribute to projects that will restore a thriving biodiversity at Arkaba and in the Flinders.
The challenge is in ensuring a sustainable future for Arkaba as its guardians (everyone who comes into contact with us) seek to bring a thriving native flora and fauna back into its landscape.
Arkaba Environmental Projects was born out of this challenge and to provide a channel for guests, scientists and those keen to learn from and contribute to projects that will restore a thriving biodiversity at Arkaba and in the Flinders.
