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Nature Glenelg Trust WALKER SWAMP HAS BEEN DRAINED ABN 23 917 949 584 AND FARMED FOR DECADES, LEAVING Registered with the Australian Not-for-profits and Charities Commission and a Deductible Gift Recipient endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office IT IN A COMPROMISED STATE.

PO Box 2177 ADJACENT TO THE GRAMPIANS Mount Gambier NATIONAL PARK, THIS 1000 ACRE South 5290 FLOODPLAIN PROPERTY RETAINS Donations: +61 8 8797 8596 ALL THE NECESSARY INGREDIENTS Enquiries: +61 8 8797 81 81 FOR SUCCESSFUL RESTORATION.

Project partners: LET’S BRING IT BACK. Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve

Introduction National Park forming a Outcomes About the Project Area complex inland delta of 13 The Walker Swamp km2 of wetlands - including The Walker Swamp A partnership between Restoration Reserve is the Walker Swamp and surrounds. Restoration Reserve provides NGT, the Glenelg Hopkins vision of Nature Glenelg an excellent opportunity to Catchment Management Trust (NGT), a charitable From the 1950s, the area was demonstrate what sustainable Authority and the Hamilton not-for-profit environmental drained and opened up for water management, Field Naturalists Club has organisation based in south- Get on board Our Target farming, causing a loss of threatened species recovery enabled NGT to purchase the eastern Australia. habitat for wildlife, including and large-scale habitat first 500 acres of the reserve, This is your chance to To secure this extra land we many species now threatened regeneration looks like on the and initiate Stage 1 of the Walker Swamp is situated a contribute to something have a funding shortfall of with extinction. ground, while providing the project (see map far right). short, 20 minute drive from truly worthwhile - because $150,000. chance for the community this project is of a scale Dunkeld, Victoria, near the Stage 1 Over the past six years, NGT to actively participate in the We also have the ability to that will make a tangible If you choose to donate south-eastern corner of the Project has been working with a wide exciting journey that lies immediately double the difference to wetland . Area range of local people and ahead. project area to 1000 acres, conservation in Victoria. You have our commitment organisations to re-invigorate by securing Stage 2 with Background that all donated money will Walker the Wannon River floodplain The site will enable us to your support. Project supporters will be kept contribute directly towards Swamp The Grampians National Park What initially began in 2013 restore habitat for a wide up-to-date on the progress the project and the future is one of southern Australia’s as a series of restoration trials, range of threatened species Stage 2 will enable us to fully of the restoration story management of the site. led to permanent restoration such as: the Wimmera restore the Walker Swamp most iconic and biodiverse over the years ahead, and Grampians National Park protected areas, home to works at Gooseneck Swamp Bottlebrush (plant), Little floodplain and physically link informed about the different Please note that magnificent mountain ranges and Brady Swamp in 2015. Galaxias (fish), Growling the entire project area with ways to get involved with all donations Grass Frog (above far right), the Wannon River and the Gooseneck Floodplain linking and a wide range of plants NGT’s restoration projects. over $2 are Swamp Walker Swamp to and animals. Walker Swamp and its Western Swamp Crayfish and Grampians National Park. You will also be welcome tax-deductible, the Park surrounding floodplain is yet Australasian Bittern (bird), to visit Walker Swamp and and every Stage 2 to benefit from permanent as well as a range of other Carefully planned restoration It also forms the headwaters experience exactly what donation counts. Project restoration - but we are important or iconic species, works will return natural of a number of western 1000 acres of re-envigorated Area Victoria’s most important confident of the site’s such as the Brolga and the inundation patterns across wetlands looks like - up close. For more information river catchments, including potential, because of the White-bellied Sea Eagle the site for the first time in the Wannon River, which success of a minor restoration (above right). several decades, which in turn With your help, we can give Please visit our website: trial NGT completed at Walker will bring back the missing discharges onto the nature the chance it needs to www.ngt.org.au/donate Brady Swamp floodplain beyond the Swamp in 2014 (below). wildlife of Walker Swamp. bounce back! or call (08) 8797 8596

Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve Project Area

Photo credits: Walker Swamp restoration trial 2014 Walker Swamp - ready for permanent restoration works to begin... Cover images - Lachlan Farrington and Greg Kerr; Walker Swamp trial and panorama images - Mark Bachmann; White-bellied Sea Eagle - Rod Bird; Growling Grass Frog - Lauren Veale