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Women, First Nations peo­ples and young adults are among the demo­graph­ics encour­aged to nom­i­nate to become new mem­bers of South Australia’s region­al land­scape boards.

The new Flinders Chase Nation­al Park Vis­i­tor Cen­tre locat­ed at Karat­ta on Kan­ga­roo Island’s wild west coast has been offi­cial­ly opened, replac­ing the for­mer Rocky Riv­er cen­tre destroyed in the ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ bushfires.

Despite the chill in the air, South Australia’s coastal envi­ron­ments are won­der­ful places to explore in the cold­er months of the year.

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice (NPWS) has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its annu­al pre­scribed burn pro­grams, with 90 burns con­duct­ed across the state in the past 12 months.

Exchang­ing the harsh dry of the South Aus­tralian Out­back for the snow-cov­ered peaks of Tasmania’s Cra­dle Moun­tain couldn’t be much more of a contrast.