The Deniliquin Lagoons Community Restoration Project is a state award winning (2015 Natural Environment Protection and Enhancement Award) project with multiple partners contributing to the ongoing management of the wetland system. The project is a community partnership project that has been ...
The Lower Darling River is one of the outback's most loved waterways and it's home to many of our favourite native fish. Sadly, it has had a significant amount of instream fish habitat removed over the past 200 years which, in combination with other factors, has left fish populations ...
The Sunraysia River Repair Bus have been undertaking weekly restoration projects within Bottle Bend Reserve alongside members of the committee. The activities have included weed removal, rubbish collection, scientific research with local schools and protecting indigenous ...
Tarcutta Creek is a southern tributary of the Murrumbidgee River Catchment had suffered for years. It was when the eroding banks significantly reduced the remaining fish habitat by undermining the overhanging bank vegetation and smothering snags and microhabitats nearby with sediment that ...
The Georges, Shoalhaven and Kangaroo Rivers in New South Wales may hold a secret. A silvery perch ghost that has not been recorded in the wild since 1998. The species has no formal name but is commonly known as the Macquarie River Perch or Kangaroo River. It has been shown to be genetically ...
OzFish Unlimited and Landcare NSW have joined forces to empower local communities across NSW to improve their local waterways. Focusing on on-ground works to improve the health of habitats in their local rivers, the partnership will enable OzFish chapters and local Landcare groups to work ...
There’s now 14,300 more trees along NSW riverbanks that will provide shade and stable water temperatures, insect fall and eventually snags for fish. Sixty more snags in our rivers installed which will provide instant homes, shelter and food for fish, along with 30km of riverbank weeded, cleaned up and restored. Plus a trash rack stopping litter, eight engagement events, and a search for a lost fish in Sydney.
A new crop of native trees and plants are set to breathe new life into the banks of Horden’s Lagoon at Wirlinga as Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group and OzFish Unlimited prepare for an upcoming community planting day on Sunday August 22nd. Volunteers will meet at Horden’s Lagoon, Riverina Highway, Wirlinga at 9.30am and get their hands dirty planting native vegetation over three hours out on the field. The restoration will help stabilise banks, preventing erosion while also providing valuable habitat of aquatic wildlife and birdlife.
Whether it be finding a lost Macquarie perch, dealing with plastic pollution, building fish hotels, bringing fish back into the backstreets of Sydney or opening ‘fish nightclubs’, local recreational fishers and Landcarers have been doing their part in restoring their local waterways across New South Wales. OzFish and Landcare groups have achieved 15 habitat restoration projects together since their partnership commenced in 2019 and its exactly what our fisheries need to recover and thrive.
OzFish and Landcare NSW partnership to deliver improved fish habitat in NSW has achieved close to one million dollars of habitat restoration work in its first twelve months. With an initial investment from the NSW Recreational Fishing Trusts of $200 000, the two groups have attracted an additional $330,000 cash investment and over $500,000 in-kind support into fish habitat restoration work for the state’s inland rivers and coastal waterways. The partnership focuses on local groups coming together to determine their waterway’s fish habitat needs and to take action to improve it. Under the expert guidance from the OzFish team, groups devised a range of projects including, re-snagging, trash racks, re-planting, fish monitoring, weeding, fencing and clean-ups.
OzFish Unlimited and Landcare NSW are joining forces to drive collaboration across New South Wales that will empower local community members to improve Australia’s land and water habitats. Focusing on on-the-ground works to improve the health of fish habitats in their local rivers, the project partnership will enable OzFish chapters and local Landcare groups to work together to deliver river restoration projects. Landcare NSW CEO, Dr Adrian Zammit, said the partnership will provide additional support for Landcare groups to continue their work with river catchments
