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Cropping farms saving wetlands, Healing Country Team taking on erosion, & watching the Seagrass Grow

The national NRM update for February 2024 represents just a handful of NRM projects among hundreds happening across Australia, which are made possible through funding from the Australian Government, state governments and others.

This month’s snapshot projects

Saving wetlands on cropping farms

The region is home to about 22 per cent of Victoria’s seasonal herbaceous wetland areas

Climate change affecting Numbat feeding habits

High environmental heat loads can limit foraging in open areas to as little as 10 minutes

Healing Country Team taking on small scale erosion

The team helps improve land conditions and reduce sediment run-off in fragile areas

Reviving Riverina’s Malleefowl; Project Update

Only 2 chicks were incubated and released into the Sanctuary after soaring temperatures and severe storms affected Malleefowl across the region

Watching the Seagrass Grow

The nurseries have seen phenomenal growth rates over the past year

Southern purple-spotted Gudgeons for the Murray–Darling

The waterhole is part of a network of gudgeon breeding sites

Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch results reveal improved water quality

The findings are from 1,946 water quality surveys, 189 waterbug surveys, and 132 riparian condition surveys
Delivering Outcomes

Regional NRM organisations partnering to deliver on-ground outcomes

Working at a landscape-scale to deliver nature-positive outcomes and productive resilient landscapes.