Pipeline wetlands get a health check

The Wimmera, Mallee, and North Central catchment management authorities and the Victorian Environmental Water Holder are giving the Wimmera Mallee wetlands across north-western Victoria a major health check. The check comes a decade after water for the environment was introduced to save the wetlands from drying up.

The 52 Wimmera Mallee Pipeline wetlands are natural depressions that provide key drought refuges and habitat for plants and animals. The local First Nations people also have strong cultural connections to these landscape areas.

The review will look at the health of all wetlands on both public and private land and evaluate how they have responded to environmental watering over the past 10 years.