Progress to Date - Conlon's Lagoon
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Conlon’s Lagoon – |
The Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory recently entered into an agreement with the Alice Springs Shooting Complex Inc – the organisation whose land includes Conlon’s Lagoon – to protect the lagoon’s conservation and its immediate surrounds.
The agreement protects the environmental values of the lagoon which covers about 170 hectares in the south west corner of the Complex.
Conlon’s Lagoon is an ephemeral claypan that fills with water after periods of significant rain that supports a diverse group of wetland plants providing important food, shelter and nesting areas for a variety of animals and birds.
The claypan includes a number of plant species that haven’t been found anywhere else in the Alice Springs region, including Nitre Goosefoot (Chenopodium nitrariaceum) a drought-tolerant shrub that provides a good habitat for small birds, mammals and marsupials.
Under this agreement native vegetation will not be destroyed or removed, non-Indigenous animals will not be introduced, natural water flow will not be interrupted, soil will not be removed and the use of vehicles will be restricted to use for approved management actions only.