Freshwater fish are important indicators of environmental change, and a long-term study by Aquasave / NGT staff recently published in the journal Landscape Ecology, illustrated how they were used to explore the benefits of the hydrological restoration of Long Swamp, the Ramsar Convention listed coastal...
Yes, NGT love wetlands! Wetland restoration and research has been a big part of what the organisation has been about, right from the start. The team have worked across a vast array of different wetlands across south-eastern Australia. So for May 2020 we have a few...
Last Saturday, the Bittern Recovery Project and NGT ran a field survey for Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) in Long Swamp, near Nelson in south-west Victoria. Since NGT’s hydrological restoration work at Nobles Rocks, the wetland has seen an increase in suitable habitat for the nationally-endangered...
It’s been a long time coming ...
[caption id="attachment_34329" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Australasian Bittern near Nobles Rocks[/caption] This curious and nationally endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) was snapped on our wildlife camera during NGT’s Long Swamp restoration works near Nobles Rocks. This project was funded with the support of the Victorian Government, and was...
In the previous blog of this series (Part 6), we finally uncovered how the Lang Brothers wanted their run named in 1848. As we explored in Part 4, Gideon Lang paid more attention to the language and activities of the Indigenous people he encountered than many...
In the most recent update to this story (Part 5), we explored some recently uncovered 1970s correspondence in the archives between the Victorian Place Names Committee (PNC) and regionally-based local and state government bodies, that shed some light on how the lake became officially registered by the...
Like many features in our region, Nobles Rocks are named after a past lessee of a nearby parcel of land; a man with an unusual but memorable name - Noble Liddle.Noble was born on the 30th of Aug 1856 (one of several children to his...
On Thursday evening, I had the great pleasure of being invited along to the 2014 Victorian Coastal Awards for Excellence, which were held at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. It was really heartening to be gathered with so many people active in coastal conservation...
Since sharing the recent good news about Long Swamp, I was forwarded a copy of some very interesting new research on the Ancient Greenling Damselfly (NGT's logo!). This work occurred in Long Swamp, which is a key habitat area for the Ancient Greenling, and found...
