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22.01.2022 In 2017, students from Rand Public School in Rand, NSW, spent the day with Roy and Leanne Hamilton to learn about their involvement in the Murray Wetland Carbon Storage Project. The students spent time with the Hamilton’s to find out about them and what makes their wetland special. Read more here: http://ow.ly/echl30kjH9N

21.01.2022 Landholders and local wetlands are seeing the benefits of a homestead pipeline project in the Gwydir valley The pipeline has replaced an open channel that carried essential water to nearby homesteads. In doing so, the project has helped restore a more natural wetting regime, allowing the wetlands to survive and thrive

21.01.2022 Environmental water managers, river operators, researchers and community representatives are currently collaborating to design fish flows for each major river system within the Southern Connected Basin. See what New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) Senior Team Leader Paula D’Santos had to say in the article below

17.01.2022 Want to visit your local wetlands but don’t like getting your feet wet? Now you can do it from the comfort of your couch! Staff from the Office of Environment and Heritage have captured a series of ‘photospheres’ which provide a 360 degree view of wetlands in the north-west check them out here!

14.01.2022 These 10 rivers are responsible for the 8 million tons of plastic that are dumped into the ocean annually.

13.01.2022 It's been a great week in the Far West of NSW for us. Along with our partners the Hazel L Henry Farmland Nature Refuges Trust, we have been working on restoring... the wetlands along Little Frenchmans Creek near Wentworth NSW for the past few years. And when local DPI Fisheries officer Iain Ellis had a chance to fund a small scale re-introduction of the locally extinct (none in NSW for over a decade) Murray Hardy Head, he contacted us straight away. This week, we saw the first release of fish sourced from South Australia and courtesy of collaboration with Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin (SAMDB) and Aquasave - Nature Glenelg Trust. The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and Western Local Land Services all jumped on board to help with this brilliant project that we hope to expand all through the Murray Basin. The landholders and managers of Wingillie Station contributed many hours and dollars to make this happen for the benefit of all wetlands and rivers in the Basin. A great first step! And a a wonderful example of partnerships with private landholders, government agencies across borders and NGO's.

11.01.2022 The Murray-Darling Wetlands Working Group has welcomed the announcement by the Commonwealth and NSW Governments of the successful consortium for the long awaite...d Nimmie-Caira System Enhanced Environmental Water Delivery Project. The Wetlands Working Group is part of the successful consortium chosen to manage the 85,000 hectares of the Nimmie-Caira area in the Lowbidgee floodplain in southern NSW. The consortium includes lead partner The Nature Conservancy (Australia), the Nari Nari Tribal Council, the Centre for Ecosystem Science within the University of NSW and the Murray-Darling Wetlands Working Group. As part of the project, the Wetlands Working Group will contribute to the future management of the nationally important wetlands and floodways within the area. Chair of the Wetlands Working Group, Ian Davidson, said The Nimmie-Caira Consortium is a partnership with the combined expertise necessary to achieve what has long been hoped for in the Nimmie-Caira area. This includes rehabilitation and management of the unique environmental areas, protection of the extensive and significant cultural sites and values, and the delivery of economic and social outcomes for the region. This represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to sustainably manage a vast area which includes the largest remaining wetland habitats in the Murrumbidgee valley. The Murray-Darling Wetlands Working Group is a community partnership that brings to the Consortium over 25 years of water and wetland management expertise within the Murray and Murrumbidgee river valleys in the Murray-Darling Basin. The Group has a history of working cooperatively with landholders, water management agencies, local Aboriginal communities, state and local government and regional interest groups in rehabilitating wetlands. These activities include winning the prestigious Thiess National River Award for the groups work with landowners in rehabilitating wetlands on private land within the Murray Irrigation Area. Mr Davidson said the Wetlands Working Group was now looking forward to working together with the Consortium partners and with the regional community, to manage and restore what is a truly significant national asset.

11.01.2022 Proud to have been part of this for many years.

09.01.2022 A number of blackberry ‘hot spots’ were recently targeted in the Millewa Forest. These dense thickets are adjacent to the Murray River and require targeted chem...ical treatment to minimise off target impacts and reduce soil disturbance. A contractor was engaged to undertake the initial chemical control of the identified sites in January 2018 with positive results. A follow up treatment was done in April to identify any plants missed and ensure the chemical uptake from the first action was successful. Read more about the results below

09.01.2022 "From time to time I am told that the river system of the MurrayDarling Basin is best left to itself, without our help, because our environment is robust and will always bounce back." Indeed the basin’s environment is resilientit has evolved to thrive through the extremes of drought and flood. The MurrayDarling, however, is a working river system. For more than a hundred years it has been progressively geared to deliver water as a resource for farming, for mining, for town...s and other parts of our economy. As a consequence we have shaped the environment that we have today, which means the resilience of the river system depends in large part on the deliberative steps we choose to take, to protect it, to manage it, and to benefit from it. Read more here

08.01.2022 Blue bills, pink ears, white eyes, freckles almost every possible species of duck has made an appearance in the wetlands near Gol Gol. And along with ducks, we’ve seen glossy ibis, red-necked avocets, black-winged stilts and white-faced herons. The Office of Environment and Heritage are pleased to see see all these birds responding well to the improved conditions in this region, and you can read more about the 'quacking' response here

05.01.2022 Bill and Cecily Nixon became involved in the Murray Wetland Carbon Storage Project in 2013 when they expressed an interest in rehabilitating their wetland to improve carbon storage and biodiversity. Read about their story and progress below

05.01.2022 Recent surveys of the condition of natural resources within the Billabong Yanco region funded by Murray Local Land Services (MLLS) have had the added bonus of discovering two rare and threatened species, Trout cod and Southern Bell Frogs. Both species have suffered widespread declines in their distribution and abundance across NSW including the study region. Read more here