More urgently than ever before, in the face of major challenges like climate change and drought, we need to take the best possible care of our landscapes and ecosystems and safeguard them for future generations.

In 2004 the South Australian government introduced new legislation – The Natural Resources Management Act 2004 (the NRM Act). The NRM Act provides a more integrated and sustainable structure for managing our State's natural assets (that is, our soils, water, plants and animals and the diversity of our landscapes and ecosystems).

Through the NRM Act 2004 the Governor, at the recommendation of the Minister, has divided the State into eight Natural Resources Management Regions. The Minister established a regional NRM board for each of these 8 NRM regions.

The key functions of each Regional NRM Board is to:

• undertake an active role with respect to the management of natural resources within its region;
• prepare a regional NRM plan in accordance with the NRM Act;
• implement the NRM plan;
• keep their NRM plan under review to ensure that the objects of the NRM Act are being achieved; and
• promote public awareness and understanding of the importance of integrated and sustainable NRM within its region, to undertake or support educational initiatives with respect to natural resources management, and to provide mechanisms to increase the capacity of people to implement programs or to take other steps to improve the management of natural resources.

For the complete list of the functions of Regional NRM boards please view the NRM Act 2004.

Each Regional NRM Board has its own website and these can be accessed by clicking below: