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Monthly Archives: May 2017

Water quality key to healthy Gippsland Lakes

Improving water quality flowing into the Gippsland Lakes is an important part of improving the overall health of the Lakes. Through Victorian State Government funding, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, will be working with farmers in the Macalister irrigation area to keep nutrients and sediments on farm. WGCMA’s Land Team Leader, Shayne Haywood, said keeping

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Monitoring fox populations on the Gippsland Lakes

Trust for Nature has received funding from the Victorian State Government for the Gippsland Lakes to implement a landscape fox control program to protect waterbird populations. This will be undertaken through a combination of control methods across freehold and public land around the Blond Bay area. As part of this project, monitoring will be undertaken

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Managing water for the Gippsland Lakes

Since settlement, the Latrobe and Thomson rivers have changed significantly. Each year, almost half of the natural flow of the rivers is removed to provide water for towns and industry. This has put pressure on the rivers from an environmental perspective, with every drop being precious for wetlands at their lower end – such as

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Helping Dowd Morass

Almost a year ago, salty water spilled over from Lake Wellington flooding the Dowds Morass wetlands. This sparked a project, funded by the Victorian State Government, to investigate the risks of salt water flooding the Gippsland Lakes’ fringing wetlands and how this should be managed. According to West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority’s Environmental Waterways Project

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