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Category Archives: Media Release

Inspired Landcarers loving our Lakes

Landcare is an inspired movement that has transformed landscapes. This National Landcare Week, we pay tribute to Landcarers everywhere – especially those working for the health of the Gippsland Lakes. Local landcarers shone in the recent round of the Gippsland Lakes Coordination Committee’s Community Grants with three Landcare groups being empowered to deliver four projects

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Community Grants to deliver for Gippsland Lakes

Four community groups will receive a boost for critical projects that will protect and restore the iconic Gippsland Lakes as part of the Gippsland Lakes Coordinating Committee Community Grants Funding. Minister for Water Harriet Shing announced the successful applicants on a visit to the Gippsland Lakes today and acknowledged the ongoing dedication and passion of

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Enhancing urban wetlands winding to the Gippsland Lake

There is a transformation taking place on Crooke Street in East Bairnsdale with a suburban drain about to become an urban wetland and contribute to a healthier Gippsland Lakes. As the crow flies, Crooke Street is close to Jones Bay – one of the Lakes’ precious aquatic wildlife refuges. The newly constructed wetland will filter

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Beyonce’s Baby, Ebony & Ivory – latest addition to Lakes’ dolphins

Just in time for Endangered Species Day on 19 May, results from seasonal monitoring of the Gippsland Lakes’ critically endangered Burrunan dolphin population reveal not one but three new calves have joined the population. The Marine Mammal Foundation (MMF) team undertakes four surveys per year. Each season they spend two weeks monitoring and recording the

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Native fish released at Macleod Morass

Native Dwarf Galaxias fish may be small, but they are mighty important to the Gippsland Lakes Ramsar Site. That’s why we have just released 900 into the freshwater wetland of Macleod Morass. The exciting event is part of the Love Our Lakes ‘Improving the wetlands of Jones Bay and Lake King’ project that aims to

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