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BBC News Walker Swamp: The mission to restore an Australian wetland Close In the shadow of Australia's Grampians National Park lies Walker Swamp, a once-thriving wetland that was artificially drained and farmed for over a century. But it is now welcoming new life once more, after a huge restoration project. Its revival is one "message of hope" amid so much grim environmental news, ecologists tell the BBC. Video by Isabelle Rodd This video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for Android.

Walker Swamp had been destroyed by 150 years of farming - now it is replenished and welcoming life.

Ecologists buy 1,000-acre blue gum plantation and transform it into wetland it once was SunSunday 7 updated SunSunday 7 The abrupt form of Victoria's Mount Abrupt looms behind the new swamps. ( Share Print text only It was 2016, Mark Bachmann was stumped. He and his team of scientists were three years into transforming a huge tract of agricultural land into the wetland it once was, but had no idea how their small, regional, not-for-profit could negotiate the final step: to buy 1,000 acres of commercial blue gum plantation. That was when he spotted the platypus. "I drove out after a big flood...