PRIMARY school students and community members got to learn more about their local environment when the Mallee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) hosted a community day this week.
Mallee CMA held tours of the Nyah and Vinifera wetlands, as well as bird-watching sessions and aquatic life sample collections, for Nyah District Primary School students and parents.
Twenty-seven other guests also took part in the community day, including members of naturalist and community groups, Nyah district locals and River Murray stakeholders.
The day concluded with a living wildlife display, including lizards, an endangered carpet python (once plentiful in the area but are now rarely seen), a sugar glider and a regent parrot.
Mallee CMA project manager Malcolm Thompson said organisers wanted to show how successful recent environmental watering events in the forests had been in bringing its flora and fauna back to life.
“We want to take people there and educate them and show them exactly what we do,” he said.
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