A 60-year-old Buxton man was ordered to pay a total of $7500 and placed under a good behaviour bond after he illegally cleared Crown land beside the Steavenson River near Buxton.
A short-term change to the minimum amount of water for the environment being used in the Broken River will
ensure the river’s health is maintained if conditions remain dry this season.
The call for photographs to feature in the popular Conservation Management Network (CMN) annual calendar is now open.
School holidays are just around the corner and there is no better time or place to be out camping, boating, kayaking, fishing and hiking than in the internationally recognised Barmah National Park.
Water for the environment is due to be delivered downstream of Goulburn Weir from early July.
With fire restrictions now lifted across the region, authorities have come together to urge landholders to be vigilant about protecting their paddock trees during the stubble burning season.
Platypus and native fish including Murray cod will benefit from the delivery of water for the environment along the Broken River downstream of Lake Nillahcootie.
One hundred and eighty new homes were built for threatened turquoise parrots by members of the Victorian Mobile Landcare Group at the weekend.
Four healthy platypus were recorded during a recent attempt to rescue a fifth platypus tangled in litter in the King Parrot Creek.
Controlling feral animals in Barmah National Park is critical to the long-term health of the park’s internationally recognised wetlands says Goulburn Broken CMA CEO Chris Norman.
Scientists have avoided local extinction of an endangered native fish from creeks in the Strathbogie Ranges.
Water-logged paddocks and ruined pastures will cease to be problems for a group of Naring farmers, after work started on their new community irrigation drain.
Native fish, including threatened silver perch, are thriving in the Broken River despite the lower flows.
In what has been declared the official Year of the Paddock Tree, funds have been made available to farmers to protect scattered trees.
Dairy research scientist Yvette Williams has been named the recipient of the Ken Sampson Fairley Leadership Memorial Scholarship.