Curlew Island, a two-hectare island located in the Gold Coast, is home to numerous threatened migratory shorebirds who visit to rest and feed prior to their migration north.

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The Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland is home to a diverse array of plants and animals, including some threatened species. To honour Threatened Species Day, we are taking a look at the Wallum Sedge Frog (Litoria olongburensis), which lives in some of the freshwater wetlands of the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland.

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Saltmarsh and intertidal mudflats may not look like much at first, but after a closer look, you’ll realise they are thriving communities full of small critters such as crabs, prawns, molluscs, and worms, which provide a rich and bountiful food source for fish and birds.

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Preparing for drought rather than responding to it is the focus of a new Australian Government strategy to build farm and community resilience.

Healthy Land & Water has been tasked with rolling out a proactive new program to South East Queensland landholders. It is part of targeted new funding for drought under the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund Natural Resources Management Drought Resilience Program – Landscapes Project.

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Phase 1– Bushfire Recovery works completed

With Phase 1 of Bushfire Recovery works in world heritage National Parks completed a second phase has been greenlit and is already in full swing.

Phase 2 of the project expands the restoration effort and supports the delivery of a proactive preparedness program for landholders. Like the first, the second phase of the program is focused on protecting and restoring habitat for more than 20 states and nationally-listed threatened species and one very rare vegetation community (lowland subtropical rainforest, which is listed as critically endangered).

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Cutting-edge new models are being built which are set to significantly increase understanding of how coastal zones naturally remove nitrogen from waterways, as it is carried downstream, before being passed out into the ocean.

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