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The CLLMM Research Centre launched Reasons for Hope this past week – a short film about the Centre’s landscape revegetation project, and all of the community efforts in revegetation for the past 10 years. The landscape revegetation project has been assessing the impact of extensive revegetation following the Millennium Drought on the region’s landscapes. More […]

New research from the CLLMM Research Centre challenges the idea that environmental water and economic outcomes are competing objectives.  The research project, Community adaptation to worsening droughts and floods in the CLLMM, was a collaboration between Flinders University, Adelaide University, CSIRO, AU2100 and local community members. The project brought together economists, scientists, artists and community […]

It’s official, the red-necked stint is CLLMM’s favourite migratory waterbird for 2026!  Thanks to everyone who voted in our poll this year to mark World Migratory Bird Day. The red-neck stint, Calidris ruficollis, is a worthy winner as Australia’s smallest shorebird. It weighs just 25 grams and has a wingspan of 29-33 cm. But despite its small size […]

We were delighted to host a Flow-MER Cultural Network meeting at the Centre last month. One Basin CRC is the knowledge exchange provider for Flow-MER, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s Science Program. The program assesses how the Murray–Darling Basin environment responds to environmental flows and informs how Commonwealth environmental water is managed.  A Cultural Network has […]

Ocean beaches are central to life in the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) region. They support wildlife, underpin local fisheries and offer space for recreation, reflection and connection to nature. Despite their importance, our understanding of these beaches has remained fragmented. Research has tended to focus on individual elements such as fisheries or […]

The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) region is one of Australia’s most important waterbird habitats, supporting more than 140 species and between 100,000 and 300,000 birds each year. Many of these are migratory travellers along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, and their presence has been central to the region’s listing as a Wetland of […]