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Wetlands and landowners flourish with environmental watering - Skye Wassens | Peter Morton

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Show Notes

CSU ecologist Skye Wassens and landowner Peter Morton describe their collaboration around Lake Paika near Balranald NSW that is seeing life return to the Western Lakes through environmental watering and pest management. See images and video and hear birds and frogs on the website Mosaic: Life on the Western Lakes > https://media.flow-mer.org.au/mosaic/

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