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heartbillabongs.bsky.social
Rules to stop pumping some large fresh flows into the Darling/Baaka must be included in new Water Sharing Plans. #WaterSharingPlans #EnvironmentalFlows #WaterForTheEnvironment #WaterReform #WaterPolicy #RiverHealth #SaveOurRivers #nswrivers #DarlingRiver #Baaka
October 29, 2026 at 1:12 AM
heartbillabongs.bsky.social
Billabongs are the floodplain's hidden wetlands, but they can't fill themselves.

Billabongs need big water. Help us speak up for them.

#HeartBillabongs #Billabongs #SaveOurRivers #MurrayDarling #MurrayDarlingBasin #DarlingRiver #Baaka #Wetlands #Floodplains #RiverHealth #WaterForNature
October 22, 2026 at 3:00 AM
heartbillabongs.bsky.social
Some fish wait for the river to come to them. This one races across flooded paddocks to find new billabongs, and it can grunt. Can you guess who?

#nativefish #australiannativefish #freshwaterfish #billabong #darlingriver #floodplain #murraydarlingbasin #riverhealth #recfishing #fishingaustralia
October 22, 2026 at 3:04 AM
humanisingmen.bsky.social
Murray-Darling Basin communities call for balance in review #RiverMurray #MurrayRiver #DarlingRiver
Murray-Darling Basin communities call for balance in review
Communities across the Murray-Darling Basin are calling for a better balance, as irrigators say water buybacks are hurting their communities. 
www.abc.net.au
June 24, 2026 at 6:53 AM
humanisingmen.bsky.social
Town saved from flooding 70 years ago sets vintage tractor record #wentworth #murrayriver #darlingriver
Town saved from flooding 70 years ago sets vintage tractor record
A New South Wales town hosts a celebration of the "little grey" tractors that helped save it from flooding 70 years ago.
www.abc.net.au
June 8, 2026 at 4:12 AM
marghollingdale.bsky.social
'..but its recommendations, including limiting water extracted for irrigation further up the system, were not followed.

Instead, he said, "there was a tenfold increase in water extraction".

#Water
#DarlingRiver
#extinction
December 6, 2024 at 6:18 AM
onlyparam2.bsky.social
Please support Nature Conservation campaign for govt action on health of Darling/Bacca River! Send email to Mimms easily via this link.
naturensw.good.do/stopthefishk... #nswaus #australia #Darlingriver #darlingbacca #premiermimms #iamtheriver
Join me in supporting the Connectivity report is blueprint to stop the fish kills! Campaign
Email the Premier The Minns Government landed on the ground at Menindee Lakes the day after taking office to see for themselves the shocking sight of tens of millions of dead fish. The community t...
naturensw.good.do
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
briar.bsky.social
Learning a lot about #Barka #DarlingRiver
#BarkindjiPeople
"No swimming sign" on a deck overlooking a greenish-brown, muddy Darling river. A lazy brown river flows off and around a bend, exposed parts of broken trees can be seen. Scrubby gums line the banks. The dead branches of a fallen tree lie the just over water, below a viewing deck.
November 12, 2024 at 1:36 AM