Media & Events

The region's floods over the past couple of weeks have pushed a lot of nutrients and rotting vegetation off farmland and dry floodplains and into our rivers.

Widespread natural flooding across the north central catchment is impacting water quality with an increased risk of hypoxic (low oxygen) blackwater.

Bendigo Library is now home to a large native aquarium celebrating the Bendigo Creek.

A milestone in the Gunbower floodplain environmental flow has been reached, with the water starting to flow back out to the Murray River via the lower section of Gunbower Creek.

It’s looking like being a bumper spring for the catchment’s fish, frogs, platypuses, rakalis, waterbirds, and turtles.

The Korong Vale community is being invited to help protect their town and surrounding area from future flooding,

A native fish species declared extinct in Victoria in 1998 is the focus of an inspiring new breeding program at SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium. 

The Harcourt community is being encouraged to do their bit to help protect the local area from future flooding. 

While you might think winter is a time when animals bed down and take it easy until things warm up again, that’s not the case with some of the unique native fauna in our local rivers.