Photograph · wider landscape
Western River & De Mole catchments
Bushland catchments in northwestern Kangaroo Island, including a wildlife refuge recovering from the 2019–2020 fires. Real places, not available land.
Real location and documented needs. No Eden site or partnership confirmed.
What the published record says.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy documents the 2019–2020 bushfires here, continuing feral-cat pressure, invasive blue-gum wildlings and future fire risk, alongside successful wildlife recovery in Western River Refuge.
Fire evidence dates from 2019–2020; the conservation update is from May 2025. Recovery successes are the organisation's, not Eden's.
At a glance
- Status
- Research candidate
- Location
- Northwestern Kangaroo Island — South Australia, Australia
- Climate
- Temperate
- Proposed mission
- Island recovery
- Stay length in the simulation
- Seven nights
- Cohort size in the simulation
- 20–30 guests
- Guest contribution, if agreed
- 8–12 hours per stay
The places on this site are real, and the environmental evidence is cited. Eden hospitality, prices, availability, booking, Impact Passport activity and Impact Credits are simulations. Nothing is bookable and no payment is ever taken.
Post-fire habitat recovery with island enterprise
What we would propose here, if local partners wanted it. Nothing below has been agreed.
Proposed environmental focus
Support locally led habitat recovery: camera-record review, native nursery supply and approved weed work outside sensitive areas.
Proposed community focus
Island landholders and enterprises define participation, with paid local work and purchasing.
What could be useful here.
For the place
- Camera-trap record review and data entry
- Native nursery propagation
- Approved weed work outside sensitive habitat
- Plant survival and habitat records
With the community
- Purchasing food, wine and materials from island producers
- Paid land-management roles kept with island workers
- Skills training designed with local providers
- Participation defined by landholders
- Dignified paid employment
- Local enterprise & procurement
- Education & youth training
- Locally governed benefit-sharing
Indicators, not claims.
Proposed indicators — baseline pending, nothing measured yet. Any baseline would be set by an independent survey agreed locally before work began.
Place indicators
Native vegetation recovery in monitored areas
Baseline pending
Invasive wildling and weed extent
Not yet measured
Wildlife records from camera monitoring
Not yet measured
Community indicators
Paid local roles supported
Baseline pending
Procurement value with island producers
Not yet measured
Locally owned enterprises engaged
Not yet measured
Read, notarranged yet.
We have read the published record for this landscape. We have not selected land, approached an organisation or agreed a single hour of work.
Western River & De Mole catchments — Research candidate
Register interest and we will hold your preferences in this prototype.
How it would feel
The first frame is a photograph of the real landscape. The rest is concept imagery; not documentation of this location or of a built Eden Habitat.
Research candidate means the place is real and the need is documented — not that you can book, and not that anyone has agreed to host us.