Environmental issues

Water

Wetland publications on this website

Saltwater wetlands rehabilitation manual
Download this report for use as a resource in the rehabilitation and management of wetlands influenced by brackish or saline waters, such as swamp forests, saltmarshes, mangrove forests and seagrass beds.

A free-flowing river: the ecology of the Paroo River
Buy this collection of papers by scientists, land managers, local residents and others about the importance of the Paroo and its floodwaters in the desert ecology of the state's north-west.

Conservation Assessment of Wetlands in the Clarence Lowlands IBRA Subregion
Download this report, prepared by Eco Logical Australia in collaboration with DECC, which provides findings from an assessment of the conservation values and threats to 19 wetland complexes (clusters).

Changing water regimes and wetland habitat on the Lower Murrumbidgee floodplain
Download this report, which traces 140 years of disruption to the Lower Murrumbidgee's native environments as a result of dams, levee banks and other irrigation devices.

Distribution of wetlands in NSW
Download this report, which uses satellite image research to map the distribution and extent of the state's 20,000 wetlands.

Guidelines for managing cropping on lakes in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Briggs, S. and Jenkins, K. (1997)

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