Whats the Value? Understanding the financial opportunities of your farms’ natural assets

Riverina Highlands

Whats the Value? Understanding the financial opportunities of your farms’ natural assets

Landholders from the Coolac area joined our paddock walk to learn more about on farm biodiversity and explore ways to diversify on farm income.

Speakers from the Refreshing Rivers Project, Riverina LLS, Biodiversity Conservation Trust and Environment & Heritage discussed:

- Significance of the Coolac to Tumut Serpentinite Woodland

- Natural capital –how to get started

- Biodiversity market opportunities

- Living Carbon - carbon planting project

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Riverina Highlands

February 28, 2026

Celebrating Our Nocturnal Environment

Join the Refreshing Rivers team and Landcare under the clear, unspoilt night skies for an evening celebrating the beauty and importance of our nocturnal environment.

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Riverina Highlands

February 27, 2026

Native Vegetation and Waterways: Supporting Biodiversity and Farming in the Yaven Creek

The Refreshing Rivers project is offering a pilot project to deliver low-cost waterway solutions for landholders on the Yaven Creek.

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Riverina Highlands

January 29, 2026

Help Us Establish A Southern Pygmy Perch Nursery

Through the Refreshing Rivers Program, we are looking for landholders with farm dams, gravel pits or wetlands, who are interested in establishing refuge "arks" for this rare species of fish.

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The Refreshing Rivers Program is a collaboration between government, industry, research, and community organisations, led by Local Land Services. This Program has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust.

The Refreshing Rivers Program works on Country that always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters, and we pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.