‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/18/incomprehensible-birds-flee-and-hundreds-of-turtles-left-to-die-after-government-cuts-water-to-nsw-wetlands?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Very on form for one of the two koala killer parties: native species are about as far from “give a genuine shit about” as possible.
I do wonder WTF is going on with the whole system when the article says one farmer complained about water runoff and that meant they shut the whole thing down.
Who is this mysterious “landholder”?
Astounding that an ecocide can happen at the behest of one dickhead.
The aura of Gladys still remains in the halls of NSW parliament.
She loved to kill native species, and that sentiment still remains.
TLDR: a dam releases some water to continue flow in a wetland, some of this water went onto someone’s property so that landholder complained and the NSW dam water whoever persons stopped the release, without the constant flow the wetland is drying and local animals are suffering especially turtles that live underground and are now stuck under the mud, people from New England university are thigh deep in the mud trying to rescue them but are pulling up more corpses than live ones, NSW dam persons are making a plan to restore release of water.
Name the landowners you shits. They’ll never get penalised for this in any way so at least let them face slight embarrassment
The governments turned it into the Gwydir drylands