This guide can help landholders understand the habitat requirements of waterbirds to create or enhance a water body to attract native fauna. This has the added benefits of improving water quality and adding a valuable natural asset to the property. Also see the resource, ‘Enhancing Farm Dams’ for creating fish habitat.
Enhancing Farm Dams brochure
Farm dams can serve dual purposes as water supply for stock/households as well as important refuges for native fauna. Use this guide to learn how to enhance dams to conserve the ‘Magnificent Six’ – a group of threatened floodplain specialist fish on the brink of extinction in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. These species are southern […]
Gladys And Stripey picture story book
This story, written by Michele Gierck, is based on an Australian threatened fish species called Dwarf Galaxias (Galaxiella pusilla). Dwarf Galaxias are found in southern areas of Victoria but the book is valuable to all as a way of learning about waterways, native fish and the importance of healthy habitat and fish passage. Ideal for […]
Native Fish Recovery Plan – working with landholders video
The Native Fish Recovery Plan aims to improve flows, connectivity and habitat to bring back our native fish in healthy numbers. Tim Sawers of Sawers Farms talks about the benefit to his properties of working with the Native Fish Recovery Plan and creating habitat for threatened and endangered small-bodied fish.
What is environmental DNA (eDNA) ? video
This short video explains how eDNA can help us detect native and invasive species by providing evidence about what is or isn’t present in the environment – it’s like nature’s genetic fingerprint ! eDNA testing is innovative technology that enables the detection of species without having to see, hear or catch them. eDNA offers an […]
Bendigo Creek restoration video
Clarence and Millie from Gardening Australia present a marvellous segment on Gardening Australia about the way Bendigo Creek is being reimagined, the way cultural knowledge is being embedded and the way we are looking to the future to bring back species and value this important urban waterway.
Wildlife of Native Grasslands on Victoria’s Northern Plains
Victoria’s Northern Plains grasslands support unique yet highly endangered and severely fragmented communities of plants and animals. Over the past 180 years, more than 99% of grasslands have been removed or substantially altered for agriculture. Learn about the creatures that rely on this important habitat and the plants and vegetation that support them. Head to […]
Saving the endangered Plains-wanderer bird
Critically endangered and at risk of imminent extinction, the North Central CMA is working in partnership with Trust for Nature and Australia’s National Recovery Team for the Plains-wanderer. Find out more about Plains-wanderers by viewing these videos about these quirky creatures; of using song meters to monitor populations, Werribee Zoo’s captive breeding program, incubating Plains-wanderer eggs and this gorgeous footage […]
Underwater species colouring sheet
This colouring sheet features a variety of species that call our waterways home. Importantly it shows some of our endangered small-bodied fish. You can learn more about these fish in this video.
The Magnificent Six video
Six small-bodied native fish species, specialists of the wetlands across the southern Murray Darling Basin, are on the brink of extinction. Learn about why and the things that are being done to save them in this video. This colouring sheet also features the magnificent six species.
