Corner Inlet and Agnes River
Flagship river into world renowned wetlands
About the project
This project was developed through a collaborative approach involving project partners and stakeholder and was built on earlier successful work to protect Corner Inlet and has improved the water quality in the Corner Inlet Ramsar site by improving riparian condition and connectivity along the Agnes River.
Corner Inlet supports large seagrass meadows, located in shallow water and intertidal (mud flats). Seagrass is a driver on marine ecology, has an important role in carbon sequestration, provides habitiat and food for invertebrates and birds and is critical to support commercial and recreational fishing.
The seagrass beds of Posidonia australis are a particularly important asset as they are the only large beds of this species in Victoria.
Seagrass extent and condition are affected by a complex set of factors, which includes sediment and nutrient contributions from catchment inflows.
This project has improved conditions for seagrass to flourish by reducing nutrient and sediment inflow into Corner Inlet, by creating a vegetated riparian buffer along 100% of one of the main waterways that flow into Corner Inlet, the Agnes River.
This project was funded through the National Landcare Program by the Australian Government.
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