Ecologist David Paton has been counting bird numbers annually since 1985 in the lagoons and wetlands that make up the Coorong system in South Australia, and his latest count concerns him. His summer ...

Rebecca Lester occasionally consults for MDBA, either directly or through CSIRO. The proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been one of the most controversial pieces of public policy in Australia’s ...

Storm-Boy lived between the Coorong and the sea. His home was the long, long snout of hill and scrub that curves away south-eastwards from the Murray Mouth. A wild strip it is, windswept and tussocky, ...

Coorong, The (including Policemans Point, Salt Creek and Woods Well) A beautiful National Park along a narrow 145 km spit of sand. The Coorong, a narrow neck of sand dunes stretching 145 km along the ...

The environment minister says recent storms have spread the algal bloom, but admits there’s no real known way to solve it. Described as “the most serious event to occur to marine life in years” by SA ...

You might know South Australia's iconic Coorong from the famous Australian children's book, Storm Boy, set around this coastal lagoon. This internationally important wetland is sacred to the ...

THE Coorong as we once knew it is no more. The precious wetland, made famous as the backdrop to the classic Australian film Storm Boy, has undergone a fundamental change according to one of the most ...

Years of human overuse of Murray River water has starved the wetlands, writes Jo Chandler. TO WITNESS the death of a beautiful, wild creature would be torture enough for most lovers of nature. To ...

The Goyder Institute report into the Coorong’s health found it to be in a “vulnerable state”, affecting the abundance of waterbirds such as fairy terns and migratory shorebirds. The report attributed ...

COORONG fishermen are struggling to compete with large numbers of aggressive seals stealing their catch — nearly two years after the State Government committed to fix the problem. What do you think - ...