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WetlandCare Australia hosted South African visitors; Stefan Kruger and Don Cater of Eastern Wetland Rehabilitation this week.

Stefan and Don are touring Australia looking at our technologies and methodologies in wetland rehabilitation and management. They spent monday and tuesday this week with WetlandCare Australia staff; Bob Smith, Adam Gosling, Garry Owers, Alan Cibilic and Cassie Price experiencing some of our wetland rehabilitation sites in the Richmond and Clarence catchments.

Stefan and Don were particularly interested in Australia's use of floodgate structures and fish passage devices/structures. They will take these designs and experiences back to use in the South African wetland rehabilitation projects.

 

PHOTO: WCA's Alan Cibilic shows Stefan and Don a floodgate structure at Thompson's Drain, Clarence (photo by Cassie Price).

 

PHOTO: WCA's Alan Cibilic shows Stefan and Don improved fish passage at Rominaka Channel, Clarence (photo by Cassie Price).

Stefan and Don were moving on to Queensland over the next week to meet up with Mike Ronan and the Queensland Wetlands team to experience a range of Queensland wetland rehabilitation projects.

Eastern Wetland Rehabilitation are a South African organisation specialising in wetland rehabiliation and job creation. To read more about some of their projects, please follow these links;

http://wetlands.sanbi.org/gumboot_article.php?id=178

http://www.bateleurs.co.za/2008-Missions/working-for-wetands-bushbuckridge.html