Fauna and flora surveys are conducted regularly by both the friends and professionals to identify threatened ecological communities and rare species. The Wetlands are remarkably diverse in physical and biological composition and in the ecological processes and functions they support. All the plant and animal species in the wetlands are part of a complex ecological network where individual organisms interact with each other and the non-living environment around them.

We deliver significant ecological outcomes, addressing threatening processes to conservation values including threatened fauna, flora and endangered ecological communities. The plant diversity of the wetlands was first comprehensively documented in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these surveys several presumed extinct species that had not been recorded since the early twentieth century were rediscovered. A number of completely new species were located (for example, Eleocharis keigheryi); in fact, new species are still being located.

The information from these surveys contributed to the recognition of the wetland’s values as part of the assessment of a proposal to develop land, including the wetlands for housing. The outstanding values of the wetlands were recognised in this process and the area is now protected and reserved for conservation.

Our ongoing conservation efforts have helped the wetlands retain a thriving and functional ecosystem that is home to a diverse assortment of birds, frogs and other fauna that have been attracted to the area.