A project to manage flows on the Murray River has been given the green light despite likely damage to the habitat of the endangered regent parrot, as environmentalists also warn of mass fish kills and toxic algae.
A community action group from Nyah, in northern Victoria, sought a judicial review of a federal government decision to approve construction of banks and spillways on the Murray River.
Construction on the Nyah floodplain is designed to retain natural flooding around woodlands that have been degraded by other changes to river flows at Swan Hill.
