Pumping of environmental water secured for Gunbower Forest from The Living Murray program will begin this week, allowing Reedy Lagoon to be inundated for the first time in nearly three years.
The North Central Catchment Management Authority (CMA), in partnership with Goulburn–Murray Water, Parks Victoria and the Department of Sustainability and Environment, has been delivering environmental water to McDonald Swamp in autumn and spring this year to provide water for the region’s water birds.
Members of the North Central Catchment Management Authority’s (CMA) community committee (the Natural Resource Management Committee) will visit the Hay family’s farm at Kamarooka on the edge of the Riverine Plains, approximately 30km north of Bendigo on Wednesday 18 November. The committee will see first hand how a degraded saline wasteland has been turned into an oasis in less than five years with the assistance and guidance from the Northern United Forestry Group and financial support from the National Landcare Program.
A colony of Little Pied Cormorants (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) has continued breeding with some chicks ready to leave their nests thanks to the delivery of an additional 500 million litres of environmental water to Gunbower Forest. The water was delivered to the Little Gunbower Wetland Complex in Gunbower Forest during October through a North Central Catchment Management Authority project.
Are you interested in your local environment? Would you like to have a say in identifying key environmental features in your area? The North Central Catchment Management Authority is seeking your views on the region’s most valued environmental assets to help prioritise future environmental funding and works and there is still time to be involved.
Over 80 students from St Kilian's primary school Bendigo recently visited Gunbower Forest as part of their science education program. The excursion provided the students an opportunity to see first hand Gunbower Forest and its wetlands building on what they had been studying in the classroom.
The Natural Resource Management Committee (NRMC) is a 12 member community advisory group to the North Central CMA Board. The committee provides a local community perspective to the North Central CMA on its planning, community engagement and works.
Are you interested in your local environment? Would you like to have a say in identifying key environmental features in your area? The North Central Catchment Management Authority is seeking your views on the region’s most valued environmental assets to help prioritise future environmental funding and works and there is still time to be involved.
The North Central Catchment Management Authority (CMA) in partnership with La Trobe University is hosting the Royal Society of Victoria Symposium in Bendigo on 2 and 3 December to recognise the environmental history and the scientific significance of the North Central region.
The North Central Catchment Management Authority (CMA) has received funding through the Federal Government’s Caring for our Country recovery program to assist communities and landholders repair and restore environmental assets that were impacted by the February Black Saturday fires.
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