Hart Road (Aldinga)
The Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park is over 300ha and was dedicated as a reserve in 1985. The reserve is well known for its unique coastal vegetation communities and the variety of habitats that it supports. It contains over 80 flora species of conservation significance and is an extremely valuable coastal vegetation asset in a region (the Willunga Basin) which has retained only 3% of its original native vegetation.
A project at Hart Road on the boundary of the reserve has aimed to preserve and enhance the existing roadside remnant vegetation and provide a corridor for fauna between the Park and other remnant vegetation on private and public land. A wetland is being constructed by the City of Onkaparinga adjacent this site and will add further habitats that are currently not well represented in the reserve.
Ben Moulton, City of Onkaparinga Parks Technical Officer Biodiversity, is optimistic that the Hart Road wetland site will provide much needed habitat adjacent to the Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park. "The sheer size of this wetland and associated open space provides an excellent opportunity to create an environment that is both treasured by the community and utilised by wildlife.”
Over 7,000 plants have been established at this site since 2003 and the Million Trees Program continues to work with the City of Onkaparinga on the wetland project.
