Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group | Businesses

Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Businesses
• Non-profit organisation

24.01.2022 Are you free next Thursday? Feel like a pre-Christmas drive to a River Red Gum wetland complex on the Mid-Murray? Perfect! We are holding a appropriately sized COVID friendly event to talk about Australasian Bitterns and all things wetlands! Chris Purnell from Birdlife will be there to tell us all about the greater going's on in the waterbird world, and there will be delicious snacks and scintillating conversations! We will try to throw in some Bittern calls (but no promises). RSVP ASAP to reserve your spot!

23.01.2022 Great footage from Gayini Nimmie Caira!

23.01.2022 The warm weather is here and the waterbirds are excited! At Gayini on Nari Nari Country, waterbirds are nesting across the site and creating a racket! Species setting up for the season include the Straw-necked Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Australian White Ibis, Nankeen Night-Herons, Cormorants with lots of Australasian Bitterns calling in the background! We are out there recording Australasian Bitterns, Freckled Duck and Blue-billed Ducks with funding provided by the NSW Government through a partnership between the Saving our Species program and the Environmental Trust.

23.01.2022 I was very pleased to be celebrating last night with Dr Nick Whiterod as he received his Churchill Fellow Award in Adelaide. Welcome to the Churchill Fellows Nick! Nick travelled the world on the inaugural Richard Rischbieth Churchill Fellowship to learn about best practice in translocating native fish and he brings his skills and passion to us in the highly successful reintroduction of the Murray Hardyhead into NSW wetlands. These tiny fish were extinct in NSW, but are now ...making a strong comeback in South Australia and NSW under Nick's care. You can see his report here: https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/fe/nick-whiterod-sa-2018/ Well done Nick!

20.01.2022 Love wetlands, water, rivers and think you can sing, play an instrument or write a poem? Want to win a great prize? Check out Rivers Got Talent! and post something fun, inspiring or just plain silly for the International Riversymposium 2020 talent show.

16.01.2022 The moment of relief when you realise that it’s not a snake, it’s a Shingleback Lizard! #highsnakealert

13.01.2022 If you are interested in learning about the endangered Australasian Bittern and what is happening to help these cryptic (but loud!) birds survive, you can come along to an event we are running with the Murray Local Land Services. If you're lucky perhaps you can catch a sighting or more likely, hear it's booming call. Stay tuned for more details.

09.01.2022 Amazing to see how far and wide these birds go to find mates and habitat. Demonstrates how important it is to take a 'birds eye' view of wetland management across the Murray-Darling Basin.

06.01.2022 This year, the International RiverSymposium is going virtual! Which means it is easier than ever before to hear from experts all over the world about how to manage our rivers. So hop on board!

05.01.2022 These breathtaking photos look like Indigenous paintings don't they? They're actually aerial photos of wetlands in Gayini, NSW. Gayini is part of the Lowbidgee ...floodplain the largest remaining area of wetlands in the Murrumbidgee Valley, within the southern Murray-Darling Basin. It's such a massive wetland that it's been dubbed "Kakadu of the South". It’s also an area of national and international conservation significance. Learn more about Gayini and what makes it so special > https://www.natureaustralia.org.au/gayini Annette Ruzicka Photography #NariNariTribalCouncil Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation

05.01.2022 We love wetlands too!

03.01.2022 We have partnered with SunRice, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office and the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to deliver water to this beautiful Black Box Wetland on the Billabong Creek system, West of Jerilderie. Middle Wetland had infrastructure installed to allow water to inundate a larger area of the wetland, and 2020 was the first year it was trialed. Nearly 200 hectares has been inundated, with some great early responses. Over 19 different species of waterbirds have been recorded foraging in the wetland, and the Nitre Goosefoot and Tangled Lignum understorey are lapping up having wet feet for the first time in a very long time! Thanks to all our partners who help make watering wetlands possible!