Welcome to Wiradjuri Country and the Wonga
Wetlands! Wiradjuri People lived along
the rivers of the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan and MacQuarie for more than 40,000
years. In the last 200 years and since the building of the Hume Dam and the regulation
of the river many of the wetlands in the floodplain dried out. The creation of
the Wonga Wetland is an attempt to rehabilitate and repair the environment using
reclaimed water from Albury City Council’s treatment facility.
We found the wetlands teeming with bird
life. When the project commenced only the older River Red Gums were to be seen.
With no cattle and people around the younger trees are sprouting in the
thousands. It is a peaceful place and a sanctuary for the more than 150 species
of birds that now call it home. It is also a great example of that phrase, “if
you build it they will come”!
