Native Vegetation on Private Land
The Native Vegetation Council encourages landowners to conserve or re-establish native vegetation.
What you can do to protect or enhance
Have revegetation noted on Title as native vegetation or place it under a Heritage Agreement.
Heritage Agreements ensure ongoing protection or native vegetation and revegetation, even if the land is sold.
Register for Native Vegetation Credit and generate income by protecting and managing an area of native vegetation on your land and selling Significant Environmental Benefit (SEB) credits to a company or person to offset a clearance activity.
Apply for a Significant Environmental Benefit Grant to fund on-ground native vegetaton restoration works.
Clearance of native vegetation
Native vegetation, which includes some dead plants, is protected by the Native Vegetation Act 1991. The EnviroData maps show precisely where the Act applies. The legislation prevents broad-scale clearance and minimises smaller-scale clearance. The Interactive Guide for Native Vegetation is an online tool that helps you decide if and how you need to apply to clear native vegetation.
Trees on private property
In our gardens, trees can provide us with shade, fruit, privacy and a pleasant outlook. Yet trees can sometimes become the cause of disagreement between neighbours. Trees can be seen as competing for space, water and sunlight, and can sometimes be responsible for inconvenience and damage. To understand the law relating to tree problems between neighbours or to find practical ways problems can be avoided view the Trees and the Law booklet.
Trees on council owned property
Under the Local Government Act 1999 (SA), s 245(1), Council cannot be made liable for any damage resulting from the trees location or growth. However, Contact Us if there are trees growing on public land or overhanging on to public areas that are at risk of damage.