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Environmental watering in Northern Victoria
15 Jul 2008
A joint environmental water release in autumn has provided urgent respite for Victoria's ailing wetlands and threatened species that depend on them.
Living Murray water from the Murray-Darling Basin Commission together with Victorian environmental water has targeted critical sites in northern Victoria including the Gunbower wetlands, and Lindsay-Wallpolla and Mulcra Islands. Victorian water is also being used at Little Lake Boort, and three wetlands in the Goulburn Broken catchment - Reedy, Black and Kinnaird swamps.
The number of water birds has fallen dramatically in eastern Australia and the autumn watering is creating drought refuges for birds. In the Mallee, where thousands of River Red Gums were at risk of dying in the next 12 months, the watering will provide respite - recent studies show that 70 percent of Murray River Red Gums are in decline or dying.
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