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Illegal national park hunters catch heavy fines in court
Two men hunting illegally in Yanga National Park have been fined a total of $4500 in the Hay Local Court.
The pair, Travis Clare and Dylan Thomas, claimed to have been helping to reduce the feral pig population in the area but this was rejected by the magistrate who fined Clare $2500 and Thomas $2000 on 5 July.
They were also warned that a repeat offence would lead to the seizure of their vehicle.
The court was told that in December last year, NPWS rangers were alerted to a ute with pig dogs and a pig carcass on board heading into Yanga National Park.
Enlarge image Mungo National Park, NSW: The landscapes are extraordinary, with solidified, wind-blown sand dunes and dry lakes making for a moon-like vision. But Mungo is important for changing the way we thought about human inhabitation in Australia – skeletal remains found here showed that indigenous people have been in Australia for a lot longer than previously thought. Indigenous-guided tours that delve into that history and traditional beliefs about the land and weather will leave you with your mind racing.
Photo: Tourism NT of Mungo National Park, NSW: The landscapes are extraordinary, with solidified, wind-blown sand dunes and dry lakes making for a moon-like vision. But Mungo is important for changing the way we thought about human inhabitation in Australia – skeletal remains found here showed that indigenous people have been in Australia for a lot longer than previously thought. Indigenous-guided tours that delve into that history and traditional bel
Birds thrive in the Murray-Darling
Waterbirds thrive off donated water and traditional water management.
Straw-necked ibises in flight. Credit: Kate Brandis
It’s a Murray-Darling bird-breeding party in the Gayini (Nimmie-Caira) wetlands in south west New South Wales, as birds trhive.
Thousands of breeding waterbirds are flourishing thanks to water that’s been specifically allocated to help boost the environment, and the wisdom of the traditional custodians of Nari Nari Country.
Gayini is a wetland complex of nearly 88,000 hectares situated between Maude and Balranald, and part of the Murray-Darling Basin. It is home to many bird colonies and holds cultural significance to First Nations peoples, so the breeding event is a big win for the birds who live there.
Environmental water flow reaches wetland triggering big breeding event for rare, endangered bitterns
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An Australian little bittern chick sits with an unhatched egg in the Yanga National Park.
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A bittern breeding boom in a New South Wales Riverina wetlands is being heralded as a significant step forward for the secretive water bird species.
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Environmental water is being heralded as the catalyst for the breeding event
Up to 350 gigalitres of environmental water is likely to be made available for the Murrumbidgee Valley in 2021
Last week, during a research trip to Yanga National Park on the Lowbidgee floodplain near Balranald, wildlife ecologist Matt Herring discovered the nests and live chicks of both the endangered Australasian bittern and the near-threatened Australian little bittern.