A wider view reveals what the Coorong’s north lagoon looks like in “boom time”..and a future post’s even-wider view will really show just how prodigiously abundant was birdlife in autumn 2024.
(Photo ©️ Doug Spencer, taken at 12.55 pm on 13 March 2024 – less than one minute after the previous post’s featured image)
The Coorong has long been a very dynamic ecosystem – and a fragile one.
Three months after we witnessed such abundance in the north lagoon, the Coorong’s south lagoon suffered a huge fish kill; an estimated 200 stinking tonnes of dead fish were rotting.
Locals said it was the largest such event in more than forty years.
There is a great deal of anger and frustration at the South Australian Government’s “inaction”, and fear that State and Federal Governments have frittered away the opportunity presented by the Murray-Darling system’s 2022-23 flood event.
Allegedly, the south lagoon is at imminent risk of ecological “collapse”, and the north lagoon is in danger of following suit.
Click here for ABC News story, and click this for video.