MEDIA RELEASE: May 26th, 2015.

Rice crops connecting wetlands and people

On farms across the New South Wales Riverina, something special is happening. It involves a peculiar bird, hundreds of rice growers and the will to unite farming and wildlife conservation.

Read on here … Bitterns in Rice Project Press Release May 26 2015 (pdf download).

 

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Rarely seen: an Australasian Bittern chick in a rice crop near Griffith, NSW (January, 2015).

Demonstrating that food production & wildlife conservation can work together.