Mount Burr Swamp thriving after rehabilitation from farmland

Rehabilitation work at Mount Burr Swamp is reaping results, with the newest section full and thriving after recent rain.

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00:00It's been a dry year in South Australia's South East, but one place is giving conservationists

00:08hope for the future.

00:10Mount Burr Swamp was completely drained in the 1960s to make way for farmland and forestry.

00:17After nine years of restoration work, flora and fauna are now thriving.

00:23The frogs have been loving it.

00:24The chorus is pretty loud today and has been for the last few months.

00:28A mix of much needed rain and shallow groundwater means this part of the swamp is full.

00:34Researchers are hopeful rare and endangered species, like freshwater turtles, will travel

00:40home.

00:41They will re-inhabit this area naturally, so it will take time, but the turtles walking

00:49around will eventually find their way back here.

00:52The Limestone Coast community is getting behind the conservation work.

00:56I haven't been out here before, but Nanny and Grandpa are on a farm and we always plant

01:00trees down there.

01:02Volunteers, young and old, want to ensure the work continues for generations.

01:07You just need these sort of places to keep it hydrated, have insects, birds.

01:13I am just so enthusiastic about all this.

01:17Burr Swamp is thriving and conservationists hope it can become a blueprint for other wetlands

01:23struggling in harsh conditions.

01:26We have some properties that are in a lower rainfall area, so they've still been getting

01:30close to average rainfall during those three months, July or September, but it's not putting

01:35water in the landscape quite like it has here.

01:37Restoring a vital part of the local ecosystem.

01:40You think it's all about the energy of the water and周固ia?

01:41Is it life enough?