Experience the spectacular sounds of a Murrumbidgee wetland erupting with life as water returns

By Mitchell Whitelaw, Professor of Design, School of Art and Design, Australian National University
Skye Wassens, Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University

In the southwestern corner of New South Wales, along the Murrumbidgee river, frogs are calling in a wetland called Nap Nap. This is Nari Nari country – nap nap means “very swampy” in traditional language.

Nap Nap is one of many inland wetlands across Australia to receive so-called “environmental water”: water allocated and managed to improve the health of rivers, wetlands and floodplains.

Long-term monitoring shows how these environmental flows sustain…

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