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SAVE OUR SCRUB

Southern EcoAlliance

The Campaign to protect the Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park from housing development on its northern boundary

Two housing estate sites comprising a total of 1,222 (check) HOUSES are being developed next to the Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park (ASCP) (see Map). This number of houses in high density patterns on the very fringe of the scrub, plus approximately 2,500 people and their dogs, cats and cars, will place UNACCEPTABLE PRESSURES on the Conservation Park and also on the whole Aldinga Beach environment, including infrastructure and services.

Why the ASCP is worth protecting:

· It’s the LAST SIZEABLE REMNANT (265 hectares in size) of coastal and mallee heath scrub of its kind on the Adelaide Plain (unique in the world).

· It contains 250 PLANT SPECIES, many of them RARE, including one sub-species (name) verified as existing nowhere else.

· It is a HAVEN FOR ANIMAL LIFE - echidnas, kangaroos, lizards, possums, rare butterflies, other insects and birds.
Campaign Objectives

  • An IMMEDIATE HALT to the “Sunday” and Bayswood developments before any more irreparable damage is done to these most sensitive areas.

  • Full and independent environmental, hydrological, archaeological and anthropological STUDIES to be conducted at the site.

  • Establishment of a significant BUFFER ZONE of a minimum of 300 metresbetween the “Sunday” housing development and the ASCP boundary.
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