Wingillie Station management wants to maintain and improve native vegetation and provide more habitat for animals, birds, fish and frogs.

We support the managers of Wingillie Station through the provision of water to key sites, the development of a water management plan and expert staff to regularly monitor wetlands on their property. Water is delivered in collaboration with CEWH, NSW SoS team (for best southern bell frog outcomes) and NSW DPI Fisheries and Aquasave (for Murray hardyhead outcomes).

Wingillie management has removed stock from the property, and native vegetation is recovering, particularly in those areas that have received environmental flows or natural flood events.

Water from the Environmental Water Trust and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has been used to support floodplain vegetation and biodiversity at Wingillie Station since 2016. The flows managed by the MDWWG are directly supporting:

• mature river red gum, black box, lignum and nitre goosefoot and other wetland plants on the floodplain

• habitat for a high diversity of waterbirds

• habitat for frogs, with a focus on the endangered southern bell frog

• habitat and recruitment opportunities for the re-introduced small native fish, the Murray hardyhead. 2021-22 environmental water event recorded the most prolific breeding event in which 100,000’s of individuals was observed!

• smaller environmental water events have supported populations of southern bell frog and Murray hardyhead to proliferate across the landscape following significant 2022-23 flooding. Monitoring continues.

Click here to read the article by Sascha Healy, Iain Ellis and Jimmy Walker in the Wetlands Australia 2023 Update.