Noosa is part of an ambitious world first large-scale environmental oyster reef restoration program aimed at increasing marine biodiversity and providing hundreds of jobs. Public information sessions on Monday by The Nature Conservancy at The J in Noosa Junction gave insights into the contentious $2.4 million oyster reef rebuild. The project is part of the conservancy s 60 projects in Australia to rehabilitate its depleted bays and waterways.
Dredging the river mouth the way to bring back the fish The Nature Conservancy project manager Craig Bohm said if the goal is achieved, Australia would be the first nation in the world to have recovered a critically endangered marine ecosystem .