The Blackwood River Catchment is a unique wild river, whose headwaters are a sluggish series of connected wetlands before forming a river channel on its journey through the Hardy Inlet to the Southern Ocean. The Blackwood Basin Group (BBG) was established in 1993 as a non-profit, community-based organisation to provide concerned community members, conservationists, farmers and industry representatives from all reaches of the river with an opportunity to work together to address the degradation of the Blackwood basin.