That is amazing.

There are moments that stand out.

They re invigorate you.

They remind you why we do what way?

Several years ago, we began working with people in this neighborhood, which is in Western Victoria.

We had to private landowners, farmers who own the southern part of that Wetteland, who were really keen to see it fixed, which was fantastic.

And so things really snowballed from there.

Walker Swamp was converted to blue gum plantation after having been artificially drained and farmed for 150 years.

Ah, it's a landscape now transformed, as you can see.

And so there's been a number of things we've had to do to bring that about blue gums, even though they're Australian there from Tasmania.

They're not native to this area, so we had to remove them from from the ecosystem.

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The effect of artificial drainage had been to prevent water staying.

What we have done by back filling the drain is that when those flows arrived, the water doesn't just bypass the wetlands or drain straight through them.

It actually stays.

There were residual populations hanging on just downstream in the river of various species.

There were residual patches off wetland plants out here hanging on.

All this seed was in the soil, and they're all doing really well here.

Now, even though the restoration process is only just beginning, wetlands are very forgiving.

We've been able to catch this area even though it's had such a long period of modification and turn the clock back.

For me, this is a message of hope in the face of otherwise, a steady stream of bad environmental news.

Yeah, the drying climate is not a reason not to restore wetlands.

If anything, it's the reverse.

It means that when we do get flows were able to actually retain and hold more water in the system.

You know, we actually have a nobility to build some more resilience into our waterways.