Nature conservation starts in your backyard!
You can create wildlife friendly gardens that are low maintenance, save water and attract birds, butterflies, bees other other wildlife.
Creating a habitat for wildlife is a great way to connect with nature and protect urban biodiversity. You’ll be rewarded with fascinating and beautiful visitors that will bring you and your family great joy as they feed, bathe, drink, nest and make themselves at home in your backyard.
Green Adelaide has lots of great information on creating wildlife friendly gardens.
If you want to create a wildlife friendly verge find out what you can do and how to apply.
Native gardens support local wildlife and generally use less water. Even adding just a few native plants can help to support native bees, butterflies, lizards, and birds, and contribute to a more sustainable and resilient Adelaide.
Having birds flitting about your garden can be a wonderful sight, and they also play important roles in the local ecosystem. By meeting their habitat needs you will be rewarded with their presence and help play an important role in the conservation of our native birdlife.
Find out how to encourage native birds to your garden
You can provide alternative homes for birds by installing nesting and wildlife boxes. By supplementing naturally occurring hollows, providing native food plants, and retaining vegetation corridors, you are sustainably supporting these extraordinary suburban neighbours.
Having butterflies flitting about your garden can be a wonderful sight, and they also play important roles in the local ecosystem as pollinators and food source for wildlife.
Possums have been able to thrive in urban Adelaide because of easy access to food and water. By supplementing naturally occurring hollows with wildlife boxes, providing local native food plants and retaining patches of remnant vegetation, you are sustainably supporting these extraordinary suburban neighbours.
A rustling in the garden may mean that a reptile is about, looking for a sunny spot or foraging for food. Lizards are welcome visitors in gardens, where they will feed on plants, slugs, and bugs.
Frogs play a key role in the ecosystem. Creating a pond or frog bog is a wonderful way to attract frogs and to increase and support Adelaide’s biodiversity. Adelaide’s native frog populations have suffered as a result of land clearance, pollution, development and other human activities.
Adelaide is home to 9 species of bats. All play critical ecological roles through their ability to act as pollinators or environmentally friendly insect controllers, with some species eating around half their body weight of insects on an ideal summer’s night. Enticing these unique and fascinating creatures into your patch can also provide habitat to benefit other wildlife.
How to create a bat friendly garden
You can provide alternative homes for bats by installing nesting and wildlife boxes. By supplementing naturally occurring hollows, providing native food plants, and retaining vegetation corridors, you are sustainably supporting these extraordinary suburban neighbours.