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A program to strengthen the connections between the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) and regional communities began this month with the appointment of an officer hosted by the South Australian Murray–Darling Basin Natural Resources Management (SAMDB NRM) Board.

The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) will partner with local government, regional development and natural resource organisations to strengthen connections with communities across the basin.

The MDBA will be strengthening its crucial connections with people in the Murray–Darling Basin by establishing new positions based in communities across the basin.

The Barmah–Millewa Forest bush bird surveys in 2016-17 identified a total of 61 woodland bird species in the survey plots. Species were recorded from both the survey plots and the adjoining habitat. There were 1221 individual birds recorded from across twenty sites in the Barmah–Millewa Forest.

Trading water from above the Barmah Choke to below the choke will continue to be restricted into the 2016–17 water year.

The Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth is one of six Living Murray Icon Sites.

As of 3:30pm on 22 May, the volume of water able to be traded from above to below the Barmah Choke was sitting at 18,798.6 megalitres.

The Barmah-Millewa (B-M) Forest is a highly significant wetland on the Murray River, whose natural hydrology and consequently complex ecosystems have been significantly affected by the river’s now highly regulated flow regime.

Australia is one of the driest continents on earth. As such, many thousands of weirs and floodplain levee banks, dams and intra- and inter-basin water transfers schemes have been constructed.