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Nepabunna (Nipapanha)

Community profile

Nepabunna is a community in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, just outside the south west boundary of the Gammon Ranges approximately 600km north of Adelaide.

For more infromation, see Nepabunna and the South Australia Regional Office.

Nepabunna is a community in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, just outside the south west boundary of the Gammon Ranges approximately 600km north of Adelaide.

For more infromation, see Nepabunna and the South Australia Regional Office.

Traditional owners

Adnyamathanha

Languages

Adnyamathanha

Population

26

100% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ABS 2021 Census)

Stories from Nepabunna (Nipapanha)

25th anniversary of Nantawarrina - Australia’s first IPA

15 September 2023

The Adnyamathanha peoples in South Australia have celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area.
Two wallabies stand on a brown rock face. They have yellow legs and feet, grey back and white belly with a long mainly yellow tail.

Rangers supporting tourism in the Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area

11 June 2019

Find out what’s in store for tourists visiting Australia’s first Indigenous Protected Area, Nantawarrina.
Three goats on a dry hillside amongst small trees and bushes.

Saving the natural heritage of Nantawarrina IPA from feral goats

16 November 2018

Goats are eating everything on the Nantawarrina IPA in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia but the rangers from the community of Nepabunna are fighting back.
Two young Aboriginal girls dressed in blue and yellow polo shirts stand at a podium with an elderly Aboriginal man in blue cap and blue and red shirt. In the background is a small metal shelter.

Celebrating two decades of a revolution in natural and cultural heritage preservation

18 September 2018

Australia’s first Indigenous Protected Area, Nantawarrina IPA recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, marking the beginning of a revolution in land and sea management which has swept Australia resulting in the creation of 75 IPAs.
Seven Aboriginal men and women dressed in warm clothing stand next to a red sign just off a dirt road. In the background are bushes, trees and hills. The sign says Nantawarrina IPA – Australia’s first IPA – Visitors welcome – No entry without permit.

Nantawarrina, the first IPA in Australia

23 August 2018

In 1998, the small community of Nepabunna in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia helped to change the way Indigenous owned land could be preserved.