Corner Inlet flagship waterway
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 priority rivers flowing into the Inlet.
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 habitat 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 vegetated riparian buffers along the main waterways that flow into Corner Inlet.
The Corner Inlet flagship project is supported by the Victorian Government.
Project partners
Latest news
Pods, seeds and painting the landscape with trees
Trees grow from seeds that spring from a pod, so this National Tree Day, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority is sowing the seed of just how important trees are for catchments with a special podcast that demonstrates the true superpower of trees.
Podcast #74: Power and passion for the Agnes
It’s all about the power and passion on this episode of the podcast as we chat with some inspiring people involved in a twenty-year partnership to restore the entire length of the Agnes River and protect the world-renowned Corner Inlet a very special milestone for all those involved.
Last willow gone from the Agnes
Last willow gone from the Agnes River West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is proud to have removed the last remaining stand of willow trees from the entire length of the Agnes River – a first for the organisation and a win for the environment. “Willows are a problem for rivers and removing them from…
