Media Releases

Private landholders with farms in the Goulburn Broken catchment have until 30 June, or sooner if supply runs out, to receive up to three free paddock tree guards from the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA).

Entries for photographs to feature in the 2024 Goulburn Broken Catchment calendar are now open.

A regional community taskforce has pushed for policy reform in the wake of last October’s devastating floods.

The Catchment Critters of the Month for April are the Common Dunnart (Sminthopsis murina) and the Fat-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) as part of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s Grey Box Grassy Woodlands community wildlife awareness campaign.

Invasive weeds will be removed along the banks of Whiteheads Creek in Seymour and replaced with native trees.

Invasive trees will be removed along the banks of Hughes Creek in Avenel and replaced with natives.

The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA) plans to provide water from Lake Nillahcootie next week to improve habitat and food sources for native fish, platypus and water bugs in the Broken River.

The Catchment Critter of the Month for March is the Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) as part of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s Grey Box Grassy Woodlands community wildlife awareness campaign.

One of the state’s most influencial and enduring natural resource management plans is in the process of being renewed.

The Goulburn Broken CMA has carried out preliminary assessments of waterways impacted by the October 2022 floods and will continue to undertake more detailed assessments over the coming months.

The Narrow-toed Feather-tailed Glider is featured as part of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s Grey Box Grassy Woodlands wildlife awareness campaign, supported by the Goulburn Broken CMA through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

The Yellow-footed Antechinus is featured as part of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s Grey Box Grassy Woodlands wildlife awareness campaign, supported by the Goulburn Broken CMA through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

Brimming with local images from our natural environment, the 2023 Goulburn Broken Catchment calendar is now available.

A rare local sighting of the Wrinkled Toadlet (Uperoleia rugosa), the December Frog of the Month as part of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s 2022 Year of the Frog community awareness campaign, was recently recorded.

Planning is underway for the renewal of the Shepparton Irrigation Region Land and Water Management Plan. A workshop about the Plan, set for November, was rescheduled to February 2023. SIRPPIC members Kelvin Bruce and Heather du Vallon have kicked off discussion about the strategy and the need to plan for the future.