Water levels lowered to help swamp birds

WATER levels at two internationally important Gannawarra wetlands will be lowered this week.

This is to reduce the spread of reeds, and provide better breeding and feeding conditions for waterbirds.

January’s flash floods resulted in unseasonal flows filling Johnson and Hird swamps, key wetlands in the Ramsar-listed Kerang Lakes complex.

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