Sounds of Narran: waterbirds calling at Narran Lakes (Dharriwaa) on the Lower Balonne floodplain
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UNSW •
February 17, 2025
Sounds of Narran: waterbirds calling at Narran Lakes (Dharriwaa) on the Lower Balonne floodplain By UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science Featured image: Lower Balonne Flow-MER waterbird survey (L-R) Jennifer Spencer and Jo Ocock, Aug 2024. Credit: Dr. Kate Bandis, UNSW Initial data has been retrieved from acoustic recorders as part of the University of New [...]
2024 – Another Great Year for Southern Bell Frogs: A Success Story in Conservation
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Fleur Stelling and Skye Wassens •
February 4, 2025
2024 – Another Great Year for Southern Bell Frogs: A Success Story in Conservation By Fleur Stelling and Skye Wassens Featured image: Southern bell frog. Credit: Emmalie Sanders The Southern bell frog (Litoria raniformis) was once a common and widespread species across southeastern Australia, before undergoing a significant population crash, disappearing from more than 80% [...]
The Warriku-Baaka Catchment: A Decade in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin
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Tamara Kermode & Rebecca Lamb •
November 7, 2024
The Warriku-Baaka catchment: a decade in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin Authors: Tamara Kermode & Rebecca Lamb Featured image: Mark Southwell wading through an inundated Warrego towards a lignum monitoring site in March 2020. Photo credit: Ben Vincent. For the last decade, the CEWH has funded river and floodplain wetland monitoring and research in the Warriku-Baaka [...]
The Guwayda (Gwydir) Wetlands: A decade of monitoring
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Tamara Kermode & Rebecca Lamb •
November 7, 2024
The Guwayda (Gwydir) Wetlands: A decade of monitoring Authors: Tamara Kermode & Rebecca Lamb Featured image: Turtles making the most of the Gingham Waterhole, 2015-16. We acknowledge the Gomeroi/ Gamilaroi/ Kamilaroi/ Gamilaraay Peoples, the Traditional Owners of the Guwayda (Gwydir) River and surrounds. Thank you for sharing your Country and knowledge of the land, water [...]
Rangers connecting to Country at Gayini Nimmie-Caira
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Fleur Stelling and Josh Peisley •
July 29, 2024
Rangers connecting to Country at Gayini Nimmie-Caira Authors: Fleur Stelling (CSU Research Associate) and Josh Peisley (CSU First Nations Cadet) Featured image: Grinding stone found in cultural survey. Credit: Nari Nari Tribal Council As part of the Lowbidgee floodplain, the Nari Nari Tribal Council owned conservation property, Gayini Nimmie-Caira is an area of national conservation [...]
Flow-MER Fridays — Autumn 2024
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FLOW-MER •
June 12, 2024
Flow-MER Fridays — Autumn 2024 Our Flow-MER Fridays line-up this Autumn includes: Environmental Water: Supporting the right plants in the right places — Recording available Flows, fish and connectivity — Recording available Species conservation in the age of uncertainty — Recording available This series of Flow-MER Fridays has now concluded. Recordings of each session are [...]
Rakali research in the Murrumbidgee
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Anna Turner •
April 16, 2024
Rakali research in the Murrumbidgee Interview with PhD student Emmalie Sanders Emmalie Sanders is a PhD student with the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Science at Charles Sturt University. She has spent the last few years conducting research on rakali (native water rats) in the Murrumbidgee catchment area. We caught up with Emmalie to [...]
Investigating the water requirements of the endangered Australasian bittern
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Skye Wassens et al. •
April 3, 2024
Investigating the water requirements of the endangered Australasian bittern By Skye Wassens (CSU), Elizabeth Znidersic (CSU), Sarah Talbot (CSU), Andrew Hall (CSU), Jennifer Spencer (DCCEW), and Helen P. Waudby (DCCEW) Detecting Australasian bitterns can be a challenge. They are listed as Endangered in Australia with only 1300 estimated left in the wild nationally. They are [...]
Where have all the freshwater mussels gone?
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Margrit Beemster •
February 21, 2024
Where have all the freshwater mussels gone? Author: Margrit Beemster Photo credit: Michael Griffin and Nicole McCasker, Charles Sturt University It wasn’t that long ago that freshwater mussels numbered in their “hundreds of thousands” throughout the Murray-Darling Basin. “Most people I’ve spoken to have stories of mussels being everywhere when they were children, but now [...]
Waterbird breeding in the Lower Murrumbidgee wetlands
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Jennifer Spencer et al. •
January 18, 2024
Waterbird breeding in the Lower Murrumbidgee wetlands By Jennifer Spencer (NSW DCCEEW), Kate Brandis (UNSW), Roxane Francis (UNSW), Sarah Talbot and Anna Turner (CSU) | Murrumbidgee Monitoring Evaluation and Research (MER) Program Many waterbird species can nest together, often in very large numbers, these include cormorants, pelicans, ibis, egrets and herons. We closely monitor waterbird [...]
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