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

Latest news and events

Riverina Highlands
April 20, 2026

Logs for Cod

Refreshing Rivers is working alongside Landcare, local government, and the Soil Conservation Service to install cod logs in the Adelong Creek. These structures form part of a nature‑based solution designed to strengthen river resilience following extreme weather events and ongoing habitat loss.

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Riverina Highlands
April 9, 2026

Tracking an endangered native fish in the Riverina Highlands

In what is thought to be an Australian first, a portable PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) reader has been installed in Adjungbilly Creek to help scientists track the movements of the endangered Macquarie Perch.

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Upper Billabong
March 31, 2026

Success Story | Upper Billabong Citizen Science

We lacked information on the aquatic wildlife of the Upper Billabong catchment, so using Citizen Science - the Refreshing Rivers iNaturalist project and eDNA tests, we have gathered 1,672 observations across the catchment and also completed 9 eDNA profiles in local waterways.

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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.

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