'To operate the Centre as an environmental, educational interpretive centre for the purpose of better understanding, promoting and implementing ecological sustainable development (ESD) in the Riverland of South Australia and other parts of the Murray-Darling Basin'
Mission Statement
The McCormick Centre for the Environment will operate primarily to fulfill three complementary and overlapping purposes:
1. to serve as a Centre for regional environmental education and research.
2. to provide a nature-based tourism facility for the region.
3. to provide a community resource and asset, an environmental, educational interpretive centre for the purpose of better understanding, promoting and implementing ecological sustainable development (ESD) in the Riverland of South Australia and other parts of the Murray-Darling Basin'