New South Wales
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0Carrs, Cappitts and Bunberro Creeks Rehabilitation
This project will contribute to river rehabilitation in the lower River Murray by enhancing habitats within the CCB Creeks system as fish spawning and nursery areas, so they act as source populations for fish. There are few anabranches along the Murray or Darling Rivers with this potential.
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0Pudman Creek Protection and Restoration
The successful re-introduction of the Southern Pygmy Perch at a new home along the Pudman Creek in New South Wales has strengthened efforts to increase the spread and survival of this threatened native fish. The Southern Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca australis), is a small, attractive native fish once found in most areas of the Murray and lower Murrumbidgee catchments in NSW. During the past 25 years they have disappeared from most of their natural range in response to habitat degradation, particularly the loss of aquatic vegetation and associated macroinvertebrates.
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0Boorowa River Recovery
The Boorowa catchment is characterised by farms of various sizes (from 100 ha up to 5000 ha) including rural residential holdings and small regional centres. The main town in the catchment is Boorowa with a population of 2390 (ABS 2010). The area has a long heritage of fine wool production but this has been declining due to changing terms of trade since the 1970’s, and long periods of drought (Race et.al. 2007). Poor water quality and unsustainable land management have also affected productivity and eroded the resource base for future income and livelihoods both on and off farm.
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0Restdown Wines Wetland and Heritage Walking Trail
In 2008, we established a short walking trail with interpretative signs to show the visitor this unique part of the world. Four hundred year old Box trees, an ephemeral wetland and even rare birds such as Bush-Stone Curlews bring visitors to our site.
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0Murray Wetland Carbon Storage project
Extensive vegetation clearing and altered land management have caused a reduction in the extent and diversity of carbon stores across Australia. Wetlands represent a major potential carbon sink with high levels of productivity and integral incorporation of carbon into sediments, as well as contributing to biodiversity within the landscape.
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0Bottle Bend Lagoon Restoration
Bottle Bend in New South Wales has become an “icon site” but is famous for all the wrong reasons. A bright orange, muddy depression surrounded by ghost white trees with no leaves – the smell of rotten egg gas. What went wrong? Acid sulfate soils buried beneath the wetland became exposed to the air during the prolonged drought, resulting in acidic water and the death of fish, trees and plants.
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0Restdown Wines
“Restdown” is a 450 hectare farming property encompassing an underground carbon neutral winery, environmentally sustainable vineyard, a wetland walking trail, and a Hereford beef herd. Our wines are completely handmade from vine to bottle, in our purpose-built, underground winery. Their uniqueness reflects our use of organic fertilisers and sprays and the pride taken in creating distinctive, limited release wines.
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1Environmental watering of Fletchers Creek: the value of project partnerships
Fletchers Creek is an ephemeral creek, that when flows, empties into Fletchers Lake and is located about 7 km north-west of Dareton, in western New South Wales.
The Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group Ltd. and the Barkindji Maraura Elders Environment Team have entered into a partnership project to deliver and monitor environmental water to Fletchers Creek.