fletchers creek
Since inception in 2013-14, this environmental watering project aimed to reconnect the Creek for cultural and ecological outcomes in partnership with the Barkindji Maraura Elders Environment Team (BMEET).
The disconnection of Fletcher’s Creek from the Murray and Baaka (Darling River) has meant vegetation health and biodiversity has significantly declined. The lack of water in the creek and lake has also resulted in a disconnection between Aboriginal people and their culture and obligations to Care for Country.
In close partnership with BMEET, we deliver water annually to the creek. The watering forms part of a longer-term strategy to improve the health of lignum, black box, cooba and wetland vegetation as well as the fauna that call this creek home.
Dozens of native wetland plants, including several with cultural significance supplying food, fibre, or medicine have so far been observed and waterbird surveys have detected 25 different species.
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