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Farming & Environment

River system revival continues with re-snagging

ONE hundred and ninety new fish habitat complexes have been located in the Darling-Baaka between Louth and Tilpa. Four hundred and nineteen locally sourced Bimbil Box (Eucalyptus) weighing approximately 180 tonnes were repurposed to create the snags...

21 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Citizen scientist water sampling ends for year

MORE than one hundred citizen scientists have taken part in the 2024 Great Australian Wildlife search, collecting water samples to help map wildlife throughout the Basin. Odonata Foundation and EnviroDNA provided sampling kits to allow citizen...

21 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Warning on impending fish kill

WATER experts and activists in the Far West of New South say they’re distressed by a community update released by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water yesterday that warns mass fish deaths are likely in the coming...

20 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Huge Sheep Sheared

ANDREW “Scooter” Killeen was contract mustering with CMC Contracting on a station about 100 kilometres North-East of Packsaddle last week when he came across an enormous sheep.“Probably up there with one of the biggest I’ve ever seen,” he...

20 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Water sharing plan needs change

THE new water sharing plan for the Barwon-Darling won’t help unless new plans are implemented to create more flows down the Darling. The State Government recently announced an extension on the public exhibition of draft water sharing plans for...

20 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

New water pumps for Cobar

FEDERAL Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek and New South Wales Minister for Water Rose Jackson have announced plans to try and improve water reliability in the Cobar area with two new high-tech pump stations at Nyngan and...

20 Dec 2024
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Festive period fire ban

FIRE permits have been suspended in the Far West between December 22 until January 5, 2025 inclusive, with no new fire permits to be issued over this time period. Permits issued prior to December 22 will be valid till 11.59pm on December 21, 2024...

20 Dec 2024
News

Murray Darling Basin Authority and NSW Government act on water concern

THE Murray Darling Basin Authority and New South Wales Government are working together to monitor and manage water quality in the Menindee Lakes and the lower Darling-Baaka ahead of summer. Concerns about water quality including dissolved...

19 Dec 2024
News

More red alerts along Darling

A RED alert has been issued by Water NSW for potentially toxic blue-green algae at Ellerslie in the lower Darling-Baaka River North of Mildura. The alert is in addition to existing blue-green algae alerts in Lake Menindee around the Outer Regulator...

13 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

More input sought on water plans

THE New South Wales Government has extended the public exhibition period for draft water sharing plans across regional areas of the state until early 2025 with the aim of giving communities even more time to have their say. The time extension...

13 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Lizards pawned for cash: alleged poaching in the region

REPORTS of alleged native animal poaching have been made with lizards hot property in domestic and international trade rings, poachers being brought to justice, and talks of the reptiles even being swapped for drugs. As part of Australia’s national...

13 Dec 2024
Community

Injection for Indigenous fishing projects

GRANTS from the Aboriginal Fishing Trust Fund are now open, with a total of $500,000 on offer to provide opportunities to Aboriginal communities in commercial fishing, tourism, Aboriginal cultural fishing, research and education related to fisheries...

07 Dec 2024
Arts & Entertainment

Fish kills doco reveals trauma

NEW documentary ‘More Than A Fish Kill’ about the devastating events of 2019 and 2023 in the Darling-Baaka River had its Far West premiere screening at Broken Hill City Art Gallery on Thursday night. The documentary explores how artists...

07 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Algae alert still in place

A RED alert warning for high levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae in the Darling-Baaka River remains in place for Wilcannia. Amber alerts for algae have been issued for Caulpaulin and Trevallyn, indicating blue-green algae may be multiplying...

04 Dec 2024
Farming & Environment

Rescue program for wallabies

THE Mutawintji National Park Board of Management is working on a ground-breaking relocation project to translocate a population of South Australian Yellow-Footed Rock Wallabies to the national park to breed with the existing Mutawintji Yellow-Footed...

30 Nov 2024
Farming & Environment

Darling fish to get boost

A NEW effort to help fish in the Lower Darling River is one step closer with the New South Wales Government approving the use of a system to get them swimming upstream. Billed as “state-of-the-art temporary fish passage technology”...

30 Nov 2024
Farming & Environment

Scientists reveal climate trends

HOTTER temperatures, less rainfall but more intense rainfall events are predicted to continue, according to a recent climate report. The State of the Climate 2024 report, released by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the Bureau of...

29 Nov 2024