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Murray Darling Fish Kills – an environmental catastrophe

Posted by NPA NSWon May 31, 2019in Nature NSW, Winter 2019Leave a comment

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The recent and massive death of fish in the Murray-Darling Basin caused by harmful algal blooms is an environmental catastrophe.

World Wetlands Day a stark reminder of water failings

Posted by NPA NSWon February 2, 2019January 31, 2019in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

No wetlands, no water, no fish, no future: who’s going to sort out the mess?

World Wetlands Day is celebrated internationally each year on 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971. This year the theme is wetlands and climate change and in Australia it could be not timelier.