2 JULY 2021 | Farmers Make Room For Fish
Volunteers from the Australia’s fishing conservation charity, OzFish Unlimited, have teamed up with landowners, Tweed Landcare and Tweed Shire Council to plant two thousand native trees for native fish along the banks of Johansen Creek, south of Murwillumbah. In assisting the landholders, OzFish volunteers planted 600 native trees and shrubs along the banks of the creek located on Woodland Valley Farm. The native plantings will protect the bank from future erosion, filter runoff following heavy rain, regulate water temperature by providing shade and create a source of food for the native fish populations through attracting insects to the water’s edge. Originally a dairy farm that had experienced depleted and compacted soils, the owners Fabian and Jodie always wanted to see the farm return to a more sustainable and healthy state.
