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"https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf" } ], "performance_measures": [ { "code": "", "measure": null, "target": null, "latest_result": null, "status": null, "target_source_url": "https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf", "target_source_page": null, "result_source_url": "", "result_source_page": null } ], "document_alignment_terms": { "must_support": [ "To help South Australians conserve, sustain and prosper A healthy and Improved liveability A prosperous resilient environment and wellbeing South Australia for all" ], "watch_terms": [], "avoid_claiming_without_evidence": [] }, "review_note": "" }, "strategy_brief_md": "# Department of Environment and Water — Strategy Brief\n\n**Reporting period**: 2024-25\n**Corporate plan in force**: 2025-26\n**Corporate Plan**: [2025-26](https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)\n\n## Our purpose / purposes\n\n> To help South Australians conserve, sustain and prosper A healthy and Improved liveability A prosperous resilient environment and wellbeing South Australia for all\n\n## How we deliver\n\n> We deliver results with high public value We provide high quality advice We engage with opportunities to collaborate for what we do We work safely and accountable We have empathy We deliver excellent customer service We understand that, to make a difference, we need to deliver with high quality advice We pay attention to detail, take different perspectives into account and consider long and short-term implications\n\n## Outcomes\n\n### Outcome 1: Declines in natural environments are reversed\nThe natural environments, including landscapes, biodiversity, aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, and green infrastructure, are adaptive to climate change, protected, and managed sustainably to support economic growth and enhance the wellbeing of all Australians.\n\n**Key activities:**\n- managing and protecting natural environments\n- enhancing green infrastructure\n- adapting to climate change\n\n### Outcome 2: A comprehensive and representative network of protected areas is in place\nMarine and terrestrial protected areas are effectively managed and responsive to the sustainable enjoyment of all growth.\n\n**Key activities:**\n- managing protected areas\n- enhancing marine and terrestrial protected areas\n\n### Outcome 3: Communities have access to adequate and safe water supplies\nWater supplies are managed and protected to ensure they are fit-for-purpose and provide a sustainable choice for all Australians.\n\n**Key activities:**\n- managing water supplies\n- protecting water resources\n\n### Outcome 4: First Nations peoples have access to heritage, knowledge and connection to Country\nFirst Nations peoples have access to heritage, knowledge, and connection to Country through mutually beneficial partnerships and the development of culturally significant landscapes.\n\n**Key activities:**\n- developing partnerships\n- preserving heritage\n\n## Values and principles\n\n- solution focused\n- safely\n- accountable\n- empathy\n- high-performing team\n\n## What they will measure themselves on this year (targets from 2025-26 corporate plan)\n\n| Code | Measure | Target | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| | | | |\n\n## How they performed last year (results from 2024-25 annual report)\n\n| Code | Measure | Result | Status | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| | | | | |", "strategy_overview_evidence_md": null, "internal_strategy_evidence_md": "# Department of Environment and Water - Strategy, Performance, and Operating Profile\n\n**Generated at**: 2026-05-09T22:57:11.606781+00:00\n**Entity ID**: S-SA-007\n**Entity type**: State Department\n**Jurisdiction**: SA\n**Portfolio**: Environment\n**Website**: https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/\n\n> Draft generated from scraped source material. Treat this as an evidence pack for editorial review, not a final judgement.\n\n## Source Coverage\n\n| Source type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| corporate-plans | 1 |\n| other-pdfs | 2 |\n| pages | 7 |\n\n## Executive Readout\n\n### Purpose\n\n- Our Corporate Plan\nDEW has developed a\nCorporate Plan 2025-26\nto communicate our purpose, goals, outcomes and the way we work.\n Source: `pages/about.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/about-us)`\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n\n### Role and Functions\n\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n- We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11,12,13,14]\nhabitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travelling from\n531% increase\nthe northern hemisphere each summer to feed.\nin shorebird foraging habitat\nThe lake supports 51 waterbird species, including\nsix nationally threatened waterbird and shorebird\nspecies and seven migratory shorebird species\nthat visit from their Arctic breeding grounds.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n\n### Strategic Priorities\n\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- By the end of the year, an expected 80 of\n96 deliverables in the ambitious plan will be\ndelivered, work on two will be stopped as\nthey are covered in other policy areas and\n14 will continue to be delivered in 2025.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n- We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11,12,13,14]\nhabitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travelling from\n531% increase\nthe northern hemisphere each summer to feed.\nin shorebird foraging habitat\nThe lake supports 51 waterbird species, including\nsix nationally threatened waterbird and shorebird\nspecies and seven migratory shorebird species\nthat visit from their Arctic breeding grounds.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalties of\n$50,000 apply for inaction.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [Page 27]\nSources\n1 Ernst and Young’s Nature-positive Advantage: Implications and opportunities for South Australia\n2 Mapland GIS data/McGregor Tan Research survey 2003\n3 Tourism Research Australia’s international and national visitor surveys for year ending June 2024\n4 National Park City Foundation\n5 DEW’s Biological Database of South Australia/Data.SA\n6 WaterConnect/Water Register\n7 McGregor Tan Research 2024 South Australian Parks Visitation Survey/DEW and University of\nAdelaide’s Value of South Australia’s National Parks and Reserves study into recreational and\nwellbeing benefits of metropolitan parks\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1,2]\n[Page 1]\nDEW structure\nMarch 2026\nMP\n25:1\n6202\n,62\nhcraM\ndefiidom\ntsaL\n.3114801\nSIF\nMinister for Climate,\nEnvironment and Water\nHon Emily Bourke MLC\nChief Executive\nBen Bruce\nBoard of the Director, Strategic Programs Director, Office of the Green\nBotanic Gardens (inc.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf)`\n\n## KPIs, Targets, and Where They Are At\n\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [Page 18]\nRooftop solar\nSouth Australia’s 100% net renewable energy\ngeneration target has been brought forward three\nyears to the end of 2027.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Chief Executive\nDEW has led the preparation of climate change Department for\nlegislation as South Australia’s 100% net renewable Environment and Water\nenergy generation target has been brought forward\nthree years to the end of 2027.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Key drivers\ninclude the increase in renewable energy of SA’s electricity generated\nand carbon stored in land-use sinks. from renewable resources\nThe bill also includes a target of 100% net\nrenewable electricity generation by 2027.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n- We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11,12,13,14]\nhabitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travelling from\n531% increase\nthe northern hemisphere each summer to feed.\nin shorebird foraging habitat\nThe lake supports 51 waterbird species, including\nsix nationally threatened waterbird and shorebird\nspecies and seven migratory shorebird species\nthat visit from their Arctic breeding grounds.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalties of\n$50,000 apply for inaction.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [Page 27]\nSources\n1 Ernst and Young’s Nature-positive Advantage: Implications and opportunities for South Australia\n2 Mapland GIS data/McGregor Tan Research survey 2003\n3 Tourism Research Australia’s international and national visitor surveys for year ending June 2024\n4 National Park City Foundation\n5 DEW’s Biological Database of South Australia/Data.SA\n6 WaterConnect/Water Register\n7 McGregor Tan Research 2024 South Australian Parks Visitation Survey/DEW and University of\nAdelaide’s Value of South Australia’s National Parks and Reserves study into recreational and\nwellbeing benefits of metropolitan parks\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1,2]\n[Page 1]\nDEW structure\nMarch 2026\nMP\n25:1\n6202\n,62\nhcraM\ndefiidom\ntsaL\n.3114801\nSIF\nMinister for Climate,\nEnvironment and Water\nHon Emily Bourke MLC\nChief Executive\nBen Bruce\nBoard of the Director, Strategic Programs Director, Office of the Green\nBotanic Gardens (inc.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nDEW structure\nMarch 2026\nMP\n25:1\n6202\n,62\nhcraM\ndefiidom\ntsaL\n.3114801\nSIF\n*Landscape SA Boards **Co-Management Boards\nand Advisory Committees\nAlinytjara Wilurara Northern and Yorke Mamungari Ngaut Ngaut Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges\nLandscape Board Landscape Board Conservation Park Conservation Park National Park\nCo-management Board Co-management Board Co-management Board\nwww.landscape.sa.gov.au/aw www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ny\nGeneral Manager General Manager\nKim Krebs Tony Fox\nWitjira Ikara-Flinders Ranges Kanku-Breakaways\nNational Park National Park Conservation Park\nCo-management Board Co-management Board Co-management Board\nSA Arid Lands Limestone Coast\nLandscape Board Landscape Board\nwww.landscape.sa.gov.au/saal www.landscape.sa.gov.au/lc\nYumbarra Dhilba Guuranda-Innes\nGawler Ranges Parks\nConservation Park National Park\nGeneral Manager General Manager Co-management Board\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf)`\n- Do you want to be notified about the result or contacted if we need further information?\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n\n## Key Metrics\n\n| Values found | Evidence | Source |\n|---|---|---|\n| $140 million, $8 billion, 140 million, 8 billion | We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $1 million, $500,000\n, $450,000\n, 1 million | A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitori | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $500,000 , $1 million, $50,000 , 1 million | Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalti | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $70 billion, $11 billion, 70 billion, 11 billion, 67 million | [Page 4]\nWhy the department matters\n$70 billion We manage\nof the\n68.4% of South\nstate’s economic activity and\n$11 billion of its exports Australia’s land\nhave a dependence on nature1.\n– over 67 million hectares – as we\noversee pastoral leases, parks and\nCrown land, and protect one-third\nof the state’s coastline, including\nmanaging Adelaide’s beaches2. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| 60 per cent | The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $13.7 million, 13.7 million | The work is designed to help populations of $13.7 million\nspecies – including the sharp-tailed sandpiper,\njoint SA Government and\ncurlew sandpiper, common greenshank and red-\nAustralian Government investment\nnecked stint – that use the Coorong South Lagoon.\nthrough the Healthy Coorong,\nLake Hawdon North is one of several lakes in the Health Basin program\nregion that provide critical habitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travel | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $4.3 billion, 4.3 billion | The often-symbiotic relationship between each\nof those objectives is on full display throughout Analysis shows that achieving a nature-positive\nthis report. economy could boost South Australian income\nby $4.3 billion by 2050. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $29.7 million, 29.7 million | Up to $29.7 million in joint SA and Australian 107km\nLower Murray\nGovernment funding is enabling site preparation\nReclaimed Irrigation\nactivities and intermediate remediation works for\nArea network\nflood-damaged sections of government and private\nlevees between Mannum and Wellington. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $2.5 billion, 2.5 billion | Nature-based and heritage\ntourism contribute\n$2.5 billion\nto the state’s economy\nannually, and we are one of the\nlargest tourism operators in SA3. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| 40 million, 40 per cent | The Act covers 322 leases, comprising 214 stations across 15 pastoral leases\nacross an area of 40 million hectares, or about used for carbon farming\n40 per cent of South Australia’s landmass. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| 1.3 million | Locals are also benefitting from SA’s botanic 1.3 million\ngardens, including Mount Lofty and Wittunga,\nwith 57% of visitors citing it was to support visitors to Adelaide Botanic\ntheir mental wellbeing and 53% to nurture Garden in 2023-24 (eight-year visitation high)\ntheir physical health. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $8 billion, 8 billion | The Department also continues to play a key role\nin managing the State’s precious water resources,\nincluding finding water sources for remote\ncommunities, in addition to managing water\nlicences valued at more than $8 billion. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $132\nmillion, 132\nmillion | The LMRIA levees help protect a valuable primary\nproduction area, which contributes about $132\nmillion a year to South Australia’s economy. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| 60 per cent | The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $140 million, $8 billion, 140 million, 8 billion | We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $1 million, $500,000\n, $450,000\n, 1 million | A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitori | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $500,000 , $1 million, $50,000 , 1 million | Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalti | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| $70 billion, $11 billion, 70 billion, 11 billion, 67 million | [Page 4]\nWhy the department matters\n$70 billion We manage\nof the\n68.4% of South\nstate’s economic activity and\n$11 billion of its exports Australia’s land\nhave a dependence on nature1.\n– over 67 million hectares – as we\noversee pastoral leases, parks and\nCrown land, and protect one-third\nof the state’s coastline, including\nmanaging Adelaide’s beaches2. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n| 40 million, 40 per cent | The Act covers 322 leases, comprising 214 stations across 15 pastoral leases\nacross an area of 40 million hectares, or about used for carbon farming\n40 per cent of South Australia’s landmass. | `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)` |\n\n## Key Achievements\n\n- A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Last modified December 13, 2024 9:06 AM\nDepartment for\nEnvironment and Water\nHighlights 2024\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- I’m delighted to present to you DEW’s 2024 highlights\nOr the innovative Adelaide heatmapping, which and hope you enjoy a sample of our achievements.\nwill play a key role in enhancing urban greening\nand climate adaptation for our capital.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Adnyamathanha elder Terrence\nYappaClao uSlpthrianrgd with DEW and DEM staff\nDEW Highlights 2024 15\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- By the end of the year, an expected 80 of\n96 deliverables in the ambitious plan will be\ndelivered, work on two will be stopped as\nthey are covered in other policy areas and\n14 will continue to be delivered in 2025.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n- We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11,12,13,14]\nhabitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travelling from\n531% increase\nthe northern hemisphere each summer to feed.\nin shorebird foraging habitat\nThe lake supports 51 waterbird species, including\nsix nationally threatened waterbird and shorebird\nspecies and seven migratory shorebird species\nthat visit from their Arctic breeding grounds.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalties of\n$50,000 apply for inaction.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- In a first for the SA Government, DEW’s ICT team implemented new technology, Global\nProtect, to enable more than 2000 staff – including those in remote and regional areas\n– to work securely.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n\n## Key Issues, Risks, and Recommendations\n\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n- We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11,12,13,14]\nhabitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travelling from\n531% increase\nthe northern hemisphere each summer to feed.\nin shorebird foraging habitat\nThe lake supports 51 waterbird species, including\nsix nationally threatened waterbird and shorebird\nspecies and seven migratory shorebird species\nthat visit from their Arctic breeding grounds.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalties of\n$50,000 apply for inaction.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- This included an immediate risk to the supply of\n19\npotable (drinking and cooking) and/or non-potable\nwater from source water availability, poor water self-supplied\nquality, infrastructure failure or changing demand. communities\nidentified\nIts engagement with First Nations communities\nwas key, gathering valuable local insights\nthat helped shape the project’s direction.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [Page 27]\nSources\n1 Ernst and Young’s Nature-positive Advantage: Implications and opportunities for South Australia\n2 Mapland GIS data/McGregor Tan Research survey 2003\n3 Tourism Research Australia’s international and national visitor surveys for year ending June 2024\n4 National Park City Foundation\n5 DEW’s Biological Database of South Australia/Data.SA\n6 WaterConnect/Water Register\n7 McGregor Tan Research 2024 South Australian Parks Visitation Survey/DEW and University of\nAdelaide’s Value of South Australia’s National Parks and Reserves study into recreational and\nwellbeing benefits of metropolitan parks\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1,2]\n[Page 1]\nDEW structure\nMarch 2026\nMP\n25:1\n6202\n,62\nhcraM\ndefiidom\ntsaL\n.3114801\nSIF\nMinister for Climate,\nEnvironment and Water\nHon Emily Bourke MLC\nChief Executive\nBen Bruce\nBoard of the Director, Strategic Programs Director, Office of the Green\nBotanic Gardens (inc.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nDEW structure\nMarch 2026\nMP\n25:1\n6202\n,62\nhcraM\ndefiidom\ntsaL\n.3114801\nSIF\n*Landscape SA Boards **Co-Management Boards\nand Advisory Committees\nAlinytjara Wilurara Northern and Yorke Mamungari Ngaut Ngaut Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges\nLandscape Board Landscape Board Conservation Park Conservation Park National Park\nCo-management Board Co-management Board Co-management Board\nwww.landscape.sa.gov.au/aw www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ny\nGeneral Manager General Manager\nKim Krebs Tony Fox\nWitjira Ikara-Flinders Ranges Kanku-Breakaways\nNational Park National Park Conservation Park\nCo-management Board Co-management Board Co-management Board\nSA Arid Lands Limestone Coast\nLandscape Board Landscape Board\nwww.landscape.sa.gov.au/saal www.landscape.sa.gov.au/lc\nYumbarra Dhilba Guuranda-Innes\nGawler Ranges Parks\nConservation Park National Park\nGeneral Manager General Manager Co-management Board\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf)`\n- Last modified December 13, 2024 9:06 AM\nDepartment for\nEnvironment and Water\nHighlights 2024\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [Page 4]\nWhy the department matters\n$70 billion We manage\nof the\n68.4% of South\nstate’s economic activity and\n$11 billion of its exports Australia’s land\nhave a dependence on nature1.\n– over 67 million hectares – as we\noversee pastoral leases, parks and\nCrown land, and protect one-third\nof the state’s coastline, including\nmanaging Adelaide’s beaches2.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- The 2022-23 River Murray flood event was the\nthird highest recorded in South Australia, where\nthe peak flow was calculated at about 190GL a day\nat the SA border on 23 December 2022.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n\n## Corporate Values and Operating Culture\n\n- Submit\nGeneral enquiries\nCustomer Service Centre - Adelaide\nOpen: Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm\n(Closed on public holidays)\nPhone: 8204 1910\nGround Floor, 81-95 Waymouth Street\nAdelaide SA 5000\nReport an offence\nMedia Enquiries\nFor all media enquiries and information please\ncontact our media team\n.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us)`\n- [Page 27]\nSources\n1 Ernst and Young’s Nature-positive Advantage: Implications and opportunities for South Australia\n2 Mapland GIS data/McGregor Tan Research survey 2003\n3 Tourism Research Australia’s international and national visitor surveys for year ending June 2024\n4 National Park City Foundation\n5 DEW’s Biological Database of South Australia/Data.SA\n6 WaterConnect/Water Register\n7 McGregor Tan Research 2024 South Australian Parks Visitation Survey/DEW and University of\nAdelaide’s Value of South Australia’s National Parks and Reserves study into recreational and\nwellbeing benefits of metropolitan parks\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- The Bill will enshrine in legislation more ambitious\n60%\nshort-term and long-term emissions reduction\ntargets to help address climate change.\nminimum target for\nThe Bill contains two targets for greenhouse gas reducing greenhouse gas\nemissions – at least 60 per cent reduction (on emissions by 2030\n2005 levels) by 2030 and net zero by 2050.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 1]\n[Page 1]\nDepartment for Environment and Water\nCorporate Plan 2025 -2026\nThe Department for Environment and Water and its staff acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the area that we now know as South Australia, and that the people of each\nNation obtain and maintain their spiritual and cultural identity from their lands and waters.\n Source: `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf)`\n- We connect\n7 out of 10 South\nAustralians\nto parks\nWe manage over\nsaving $140 million\n14,000 water licences\nin healthcare through\nworth over $8 billion\nimproved physical\nto support sustainable and mental health7.\neconomic activity6.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10,11,12,13,14]\nhabitat for endangered\nshorebird species, including those travelling from\n531% increase\nthe northern hemisphere each summer to feed.\nin shorebird foraging habitat\nThe lake supports 51 waterbird species, including\nsix nationally threatened waterbird and shorebird\nspecies and seven migratory shorebird species\nthat visit from their Arctic breeding grounds.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- A $1 million project, delivered by the Hills and\n$500,000\nFleurieu Landscape Board in partnership with DEW\nFleurieu Peninsula\nand Mount Lofty Ranges Bird Recovery Alliance,\nheathland\naims to restore bird populations to the region.\nrestoration\nIt will focus on heathland restoration in cleared areas\nof Deep Creek National Park, grassy woodland\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n- Greater protection is provided by additional\nenforcement provisions, including repair notices\nand orders, creating a graded scale of responses\n17 State Heritage Places\nto non-compliance.\ndesignated for their\nIt also allows for the orders to be registered archaeological\non a State Heritage Place certificate of title. significance\nFines have been increased to a maximum\n$500,000 for individuals and $1 million for\nbody corporates, while daily penalties of\n$50,000 apply for inaction.\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf (https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf)`\n\n## Global Ideas and Case Study Inputs\n\n_No global-intelligence source text found yet. Run `CLAUDE/global-ideas-scraper.py ` to populate case-study sources._\n\n## Source Artifacts Used\n\n- `corporate-plans/2025-26.pdf` - corporate-plans - https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Corporate-Plan-2025-26.pdf\n- `pages/about.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/about-us\n- `pages/announcements-index.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/privacy-statement\n- `pages/announcements-index__00.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/privacy-statement\n- `pages/announcements-index__01.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/copyright\n- `pages/contact.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/contact-us\n- `pages/homepage.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/\n- `pages/news-latest.html` - pages - https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/news-hub\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf` - other-pdfs - https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pdf\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf` - other-pdfs - https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/DEW-org-chart-March-2026.pdf\n\n## Gaps To Fix\n\n- No annual report text source found.\n- No global comparison/case-study sources found.", "legislation_md": "# Department of Environment and Water - Acts and Legislation Discovery\n\n**Generated at**: 2026-05-09T21:42:04.091614+00:00\n**Entity ID**: S-SA-007\n**Jurisdiction**: South Australia\n**Portfolio**: Environment\n\n> This is an evidence-based discovery list from scraped department material. A mention does not always mean the department administers the legislation; high-confidence and official register links should be reviewed.\n\n## Summary\n\n- Source files scanned: 10\n- Unique legislation references found: 6\n\n| Type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| Act | 6 |\n\n## Legislation References\n\n### Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/search?query=Environment+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- d\n$450,000\nregeneration in the Eastern Mount\nEastern Mount Lofty Ranges\nLofty Ranges and population monitoring.\ngrassy woodland\nThe beautiful firetail is one of the most threatened restoration\nresident birds in the region and is listed as\nendangered under the Environment Protection\nand Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\nSurveys over the past decade have revealed that\nDeep Creek National Park and surrounds are\nthe last remaining stronghold for the species.\nMost Mount Lofty Ranges resident bush bird\nspecies have been in decline for numerous years\nmainly due to habitat loss, f\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/search?query=Aboriginal+Heritage+Act+1988\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ch considers\nthe lake to be sacred and dangerous to visit is the area of\nwithout the guidance of cultural authority. Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre\nOne of outback South Australia’s most popular\nattractions, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre – a registered\n13,000km2\nsite under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 – is\nis the size of Kati Thanda-Lake\nfamous for infrequent and spectacular flooding.\nEyre National Pa rk\nAccessing the lake can cause significant\ndamage to the fragile salt crust and surface,\ncausing scarring that lasts many years.\nRecreational activities, in\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Amendments to the Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act 1989\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/search?query=Amendments+to+the+Pastoral+Land+Management+and+Conservation+Act+1989\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ro-emissions future.\nBungala Solar Farm near Port Augusta\n16 DEW Highlights 2024\n\n[page 19]\nPastoral land\nPastoralists now have greater flexibility to manage\ntheir land and generate alternative revenue sources\nto help safeguard South Australia’s biodiversity.\nAmendments to the Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act 1989\nallow leaseholders to implement carbon farming and conservation initiatives\non pastoral leases.\nPastoral leases are traditionally associated 464,840 hectares\nwith livestock grazing and the changes\nof pastoral land protected\nhave been informed through consulta\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Heritage Places Act 1993\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/search?query=Heritage+Places+Act+1993\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- acular lake bed from\ndesignated visitor areas or from the air.\nVegetation on the salt lake\n10 DEW Highlights 2024\n\n[page 13]\nRowe's Blacksmith's Shop, Mintaro State Heritage Area\nState Heritage Places are being better protected\nand preserved.\nThe strengthened Heritage Places Act 1993 addresses so-called demolition by neglect\nby putting the onus of proof on to State Heritage Place owners for any damage.\nThe new laws align South Australian penalties with\n2333\nnational standards and increases them for damage\nor neglect of a State Heritage Pl\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n### National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/search?query=National+Parks+and+Wildlife+Act+1972\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- National Pa rk\nAccessing the lake can cause significant\ndamage to the fragile salt crust and surface,\ncausing scarring that lasts many years.\nRecreational activities, including swimming, driving,\nboating and landing aircraft, are already restricted\nunder the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.\nKati Thanda-Lake Eyre supports major breeding\nfor numerous species and is also a vital feeding\nand stopover site for migratory birds.\nPeople are still encouraged to enjoy the\npark and view the spectacular lake bed from\ndesignated visitor areas or from the ai\n Source: `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Renewable Energy (HRE) Act 2023\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/search?query=Renewable+Energy+%28HRE%29+Act+2023\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/DEW-Highlights-2024.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- her projects avoid\nsensitive habitats and mitigate risks to biodiversity,\nwhile balancing sustainable development with\nenvironmental protection.\nThe modelling supports South Australia’s renewable\nenergy development under the new Hydrogen\nand Renewable Energy (HRE) Act 2023, which\nstreamlines processes for companies to invest in\nlargescale 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