You’ll be in for a massive, historic surprise!
While helping to protect Aboriginal sites from construction work, cultural heritage monitors in the Koondrook–Perricoota Forest made an important discovery.
Warren Stevens found a small piece of bone that did not look very special at first but, as it turned out, it was different to anything he had ever [...]
Gunbower Island Week is on next week. To celebrate, the North Central Catchment Management Authority is developing a series of events to celebrate their partners and projects in Gunbower Forest (part of the Gunbower–Koondrook–Perricoota Forest icon site).
The Living Murray program – a partnership of the NSW, Victorian, South Australian, ACT and Australian governments, and coordinated [...]
Just in time for World Wetlands Day (on Saturday 2 February), The Living Murray has released Watering the icon sites—a snapshot.
The publication reports on how much environmental water was delivered to the icon sites in the last water year. It also gives an overview of The Living Murray’s environmental watering program through the longest drought [...]
‘You didn’t have to be a scientist to know the forest was dying, you could feel it.’
- Des Morgan (Yorta Yorta Nation)
To help restore the health of the Koondrook–Perricoota Forest, major engineering works, funded by The Living Murray program, are almost complete. A combination of regulators, levee bank and channels will enable environmental water to [...]
The River Murray, a ‘working river’, is regulated with dams, weirs and barrages to help ensure a reliable source of water for communities along the river. These structures, however, have disrupted natural flooding patterns which the floodplains and wetlands along the river rely on. To help restore the balance, The Living Murray program is funding [...]
Behold, the advent of taxa diversity! Don’t worry; this Latin-sounding phrase isn’t heralding the introduction of a new tax or taxes. Rather, “taxa diversity” simply refers to a diversity of species. Aquatic macroinvertebrates (i.e., spineless animal species large enough to be seen without a microscope) comprise a wide range of organisms that are likely to [...]
For the past two years, The Living Murray has sponsored the Murray Meander. It’s a great charity event that travels a different part of the Murray River each year, raising money for breast and prostate cancer support services, as well as raising awareness about the value of the Murray River.
Jamie Hearn, The Living Murray communications [...]