Lower Lakes

Exciting records of the rare Australian Painted Snipe in the Lower South-East of SA

Posted at 29 Jan 2024 at 13:18h in News, Lake Hawdon North, Lower Lakes, Photography, Threatened mainland fauna by Abel Zevenboom

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Australian Painted Snipe at Lake Hawdon. Photo: Abel Zevenboom During Nature Glenelg Trust’s annual Wetland Bird Survey of Lake Hawdon North in November the weather was wonderful, the abundance of birds plentiful and the lake had far-reaching inundated mudflats. While teams were split up, most of...

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Our Southern Bell Frog conservation facility is go…with tadpoles!

Posted at 19 Dec 2019 at 22:18h in Lower Lakes, Southern Bell Frog by Nick Whiterod

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Our Southern Bell Frog (aka Growling Grass Frog) conservation facility at Clayton Bay on the shores of Lake Alexandrina reached an important milestone recently. After over a year of construction and preparation, more than 20 tadpoles have arrived at the facility over the past few...

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NGT talks about Glenshera Swamp and Lower Murray fish at the SA NRM Science Conference

Posted at 11 May 2016 at 02:06h in Glenshera Swamp restoration, Lower Lakes, News by Mark Bachmann

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A few weeks ago, a couple of NGT staff gave presentations at the SA NRM Science Conference in Adelaide. On the Wednesday afternoon, I gave an overview of the restoration options work that Lachlan and I pulled together for Glenshera Swamp, in Stipiturus Conservation Park. It was especially great...

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Coorong and Lakes Environment Forum

Posted at 29 Jan 2015 at 11:27h in Lower Lakes, News by Nick Whiterod

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To celebrate World Wetlands Day, the Lakes Hub, DEWNR and the Alexandrina Council are hosting the 'Coorong and Lower Lakes Environment Forum' on Friday 30th January 2015. The re-commencement of dredging at the Murray mouth highlights the many issues presently facing this iconic region. In terms of...

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Threatened fish persisting around the Lower Lakes

Posted at 19 Feb 2014 at 18:20h in Fish conservation, Lower Lakes by Nick Whiterod

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Chris Bice (SARDI) and I recently undertook monitoring of threatened fish communities around the Lower Lakes, as part of a project funded by the CLLMM group of DEWNR (as part of the SA Governments Murray Futures program and the Australian Governments Water for the Future...

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More threatened fish reintroductions into the Lower Lakes

Posted at 09 Dec 2012 at 21:09h in Lower Lakes, News by Nick Whiterod

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The three rounds of threatened fish reintroductions to the Lower Lakes [a collaboration between Aquasave - NGT and SARDI (Chris Bice) as part of the Critical Fish Project Critical Fish Project funded by the CLLMM group of DEWNR] has just been completed. During this round, Chris and...

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The (partial) return of threatened freshwater fish to Lower Lakes

Posted at 24 Nov 2012 at 14:36h in Lower Lakes, News by Nick Whiterod

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Dramatic water level recession and habitat degradation (e.g. elevated salinity, loss of submerged vegetation) placed several species of threatened freshwater fish under risk of extirpation in the Lower Lakes of the Murray. In response, wide-ranging actions (many previously by Michael Hammer of Aquasave - NGT)...

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