The Hindmarsh Island Landcare Group began in the late 1980s. Nearly 25 years ago they started one of its key projects the Murray Mouth Estuary Restoration Project (MMERP) to focus on reconnecting a fragmented landscape using remnant saltmarsh and fresh waterways that connect properties, and using landscape rehabilitation as the method of reconnection. The project collects all of the seed needed from island sources, raising appropriate plants in their nursery and then planting out on sites across the island.
This is a visionary, developing, evolving, expanding and continuing revegetation project on the River Murray’s ICON sites.
