A drought experiment - environmental flows resurrect irrigation country

Environmental flows offered by the Murray Wetlands Working Group have revived lignum swamp, flood runners and black box swamps, which might not have seen water for 20 out of 30 years.

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ECOS Magazine 2004 (Issue 122)

From This Issue

Review - The major steps to sustainability

Review - Empowering the energy challenge

Improving the weak assessments of GMO risks

Sharks could save lives

Events calendar

Misima mine damage raises concerns

Indigenous managers for dugong and turtle harvests

Returning the lifeblood to rivers

A drought experiment - environmental flows resurrect irrigation country

How healthy river habitats suffer from altered flows

Clever planning and management approaches

Where wild things are dammed

Treasure islands

The logging jam is clearing

Logging Van Diemen's Land

The long white cloud over New Zealand's forests

Editorial - To new initiatives

Letting the locals lead

Review - Moving with the times: a university case study

A guide to managing biodiversity impacts under climate change

Renewable energy purchases are on target

Back to the future for sintering

Meat diets drive water consumption

The Aquadam

Safari hunting - in Australia?

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