• providing support to the park and to the region’s DEW staff.
• liaising closely with the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges Co-management Board.
• providing support for the protection and preservation of the park’s natural and historic values.
• raising funds for projects that will benefit the better management of the park.
• undertaking specific agreed projects that help maintain the park’s qualities.
• learning and better understanding traditional and cultural values of this region so as not to create negative impacts on country but to better guide our activities.
• liaising and knowledge-sharing with traditional and cultural owners of this land and neighbouring communities.
• providing opportunities and enjoyment to group members whilst supporting the future directions of V-GRNP.

(See the “Projects” drop-down-menu for our current projects)

The stimulus for the public meeting of March 2015 that led to revival of the group was a bequest of $10,000 made to the group from the estate of Warren Bonython AO. Warren was a person who, through his own walking and environmental interests, inspired many South Australians to take up bushwalking and to develop a heightened environmental awareness. The Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges figured prominently in Warren’s walking and his crossing of the Ranges in 1947 was the first recorded. After Warren’s successful completion of a walk from Crystal Brook to Mt Hopeless, located about 100 km north of the park, he wrote a book about the walk which was entitled ‘Walking the Flinders Ranges’. The walk and the book are widely regarded as having led to the establishment of the Heysen Trail which extends from Cape Jervis to Parachilna Gorge.

The Friends group will do all it can to see that Warren Bonython’s bequest is put to good use in the Park and that the group continues in existence long afterwards.