Free Works on Waterways Permits
If you are planning work in and around a waterway on your property, such as building a crossing, we have made it even easier for you to check if that is a designated waterway. If it is a designated waterway...
Free Flood Advisory Service
Be prepared! During wet conditions many parts of the Wimmera are at risk of flooding. If you’re planning to: Buy a property or home Build a shed Subdivide ...check your flood risk...
Saving water when it’s dry
Apart from some rain over the past week or so, a lack of rain and natural flows since 2022 means the Wimmera catchment is rapidly drying. This is leading to decreasing water levels in storage lakes and...
Funds for farmers – rivers, creeks, wetlands
Wimmera CMA makes protecting rivers, creeks and wetlands on your property easy. We are calling for Expressions of Interest to help fund work on your farm to protect rivers, creeks and wetlands. Complete...
Empowering Wimmera’s Farming Women
Chicks in the Sticks has returned to the Wimmera after close to a ten year break. Chicks in the Sticks 2024 We delivered their first Chicks in the Sticks event in 2010, born out of recognition that...
Warming waters kick off yellow belly breeding research
Bryce from Just My Luck Fishing with his ripper catch (2023) We are calling on the community again to participate in a research project #Fishing4Info involving a popular native fish – Yellowbelly! We...
Planting the seeds for carbon farming in Victoria
The Allan Government is supporting farmers to reduce their emissions and improve the productivity of their farm with free training opportunities on offer across the state. Minister for Agriculture...
Health check for pipeline wetlands a decade on
Carapugna Wetland A group of wetlands across north-western Victoria will be given a major health check 10 years after water for the environment was introduced to save them from drying up. The 52...
Frogtober – Small Actions, Big Impact
How You Can Help Victoria‘s Frogs This October Victorians are being invited to connect with nature in their neighbourhood by recording frog calls throughout October as part of Frog Month Victoria....
