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"I met with a friend for a walk beside Merri Creek, in inner Melbourne. She had
lived in the area for a few years, and as we walked beside the creek, past
trees, native grasses, a small wetland echoing with frog calls, I talked about
how it had looked before we started the site’s restoration around 25 years ago.
She stopped in her tracks, astonished. “But I thought it had always been like
this!” she said.
As we grapple with bad environmental news every day, we need to tell stories of
ecological restoration – to speak of what’s possible, and also what’s not.
Merri Creek is not particularly long – just 70km. But because it threads
through Australia’s largest city, linking the ecosystems of the Great Dividing
Range with those of Port Philip Bay, it provides habitat of regional
significance. The creek’s headwaters lie in the Great Dividing Range near
Wallan. It flows through Melbourne’s northern suburbs to join Birrarung/Yarra
River just upstream from Dights Falls in the inner city. Its waters flow
between rocky escarpment walls, through basalt plains clothed in native
grasslands, and across a rocky creek bed."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
