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Our volunteers definitely rose to the challenge to ‘dress as your favourite research project’ at a recent thank-you dinner at the CLLMM Research Centre. Held as part of our volunteer week celebrations, the event was a great opportunity for our supporters to come together and be reminded of how important their contribution is to the […]

Droughts, floods, heatwaves and storms are climate extremes that are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. The Climate extremes project has been investigating how CLLMM ecosystems reorganise after these extreme climate events, and ways that we can help protect them.

More than 600 people took part in our horizon scan survey last year, sharing what they thought were the biggest challenges and opportunities for the region over the next 15 years.  Horizon scanning is a way of consulting with communities to help address the gap between researcher and community knowledge. It’s a technique used to […]

Video launch – Reasons for Hope 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 […]

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 […]