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Halted water flows leave wetland dry as rescuers race to save trapped wildlife

There is water. Plenty of it. Copeton Dam sits about 62 per cent full, holding more than 830 gigalitres.   Yet 70 kilometres downstream, near Moree, more than 300 broad-shelled turtles are trapped beneath thick mud in the dried-up Gwydir wetlands. How did it come to this? New South Wales’s (NSW) state water agency, WaterNSW, halted crucial environmental water flows after a single landowner complained about property overflow. According to Greens…
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yourlifechoices.com.au broke the news on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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