WetlandCare Australia is celebrating its 20th birthday in conjunction with starting a pivotal initiative; their Coastal 20 Wetlands Project. This $2.5 million project has been funded under the Australian Government’s Caring for Country program. The Coastal 20 Wetland Project will see WetlandCare Australia work in partnership with community, government and industry bodies to undertake the restoration of 20 iconic coastal wetlands. These 20 coastal wetlands are biodiversity hotspots and have regional and international significance. They face significant and increasing human and environmental pressures threatening their environmental, cultural, social and economic values.

The Lower Hunter Wetlands corridor is internationally recognised as the most significant site for migratory shorebirds in NSW. They use the complex mosaic of roosting and feeding habitats provided across these wetlands. Of the migratory shorebirds present at the Lower Hunter Wetlands Corridor, 38 of the 66 migratory species are listed under the Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA) and the China-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA). These international migratory bird treaties play an important role in international efforts to conserve migratory birds of the East Asian - Australasian Flyway.

WetlandCare Australia, NQ Dry Tropics and Burdekin Shire Council have joined forces to work with landholders to increase biodiversity and improve water quality within the catchments that flow into Bowling Green Bay.

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The Australian Wetland Alliance (AWA) is an association of non-government organisations with an interest in wetlands. AWA was formed at the Brisbane Conference of the Parties in 1996. AWA provides coordinated representation for Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) working in wetlands at, State, National and International levels.

WetlandCare Australia was commissioned by the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) of New South Wales to prepare a SEPP 14 Compensatory Wetlands Plan (CWP) for three identified compensatory wetlands in March 2007.

Recently WetlandCare Australia and Ocean Shores Public School were awarded for their environmental partnership by the National Australia Bank's Impact Award! This will allow us to take the project to a whole new level. During 2010-11 WetlandCare Australia delivered a Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (NRCMA) project to coordinate and assist the Ocean Shores Public School in the revival of the schools nature trail and wetland. The nature trail is 200 metres long and runs through 0.68ha of paperbark wetland in the corner of the school property.

WetlandCare Australia, with funding through the Australian Government's Caring for Our Country Landcare Program, is delivering a project to increase awareness and implementation of best practice floodplain management in the Nambucca and Bellinger catchments.

WetlandCare Australia is working under the Aquatic WoNS Regional Partnership Project supported by the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.WetlandCare Australia will focus on increasing community understanding and knowledge of the potential impacts of Salvinia - not only small infestations in farm dams but also in larger water bodies.

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