NEWS

Forty fish. Then more than four hundred, in a single breeding season. That's the turnaround for the endangered Eastern Dwarf Galaxias at The Briars in Mount Martha, achieved not through a hatchery or captive breeding, but by changing how water moves through a wetland. Mornington Peninsula Shire's Destination Conservation and Wildlife Team, working with Ecology Australia through the Briars Arc Program, slowed water loss, built shallow vegetated breeding areas and improved conn