Participants in the first Bird Identification and Monitoring Course in Halls Gap in April 2021 Four years after the initial work to establish an ongoing citizen scientist monitoring program in the Grampians / Gariwerd National Park, and train forty bird observers, the eighth biannual Great Gariwerd...
In early April, the first Orange-bellied Parrot (OBP) migrants were sighted on the mainland from their summer breeding ground at Melaleuca, Tasmania. It’s time to get out and start looking for these critically endangered birds! Flock of Orange-bellied Parrots. Photo by Chris Tzaros Every year volunteers are...
A few weeks ago, NGT was given the fantastic news that our application to the SA Government for an Environmental Citizen Science Large Grant had been successful (you can see the full list of recipients here). This funding will allow us to kick off a...
In the lead-up to Volunteer Week in May, we will be featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month's newsletter. This month we have the second installment: meet Carole Ryan of the University of the Third Age, a gardener, child sponsor, passionate supporter of...
NGT, in partnership with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day on Wednesday 3rd April 2024 at Burdens Marsh - a recent and important addition to TLC's Sloping Main Reserve, on the Tasman Peninsula, south-eastern Tasmania.The field day provided an opportunity for locals...
NGT's wetland restoration work in Tasmania over the past few years has been capably led by our small but passionate team of Hobart-based part-time staff, Bec Sheldon and Justine Latton. You can read about Bec and Justine's observations from their recent visit to Moulting Lagoon...
NGT's Hobart-based wetland crew, Bec and Justine, undertook a trip to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tassie recently (in early April 2024), to download the data from our long-term water level and salinity loggers. This was a few days after Mark also managed...
Further to our recent Eastern Quoll Hub update in SW Victoria, it was great to see the news of quolls being released once again into Booderee National Park, situated within the Jervis Bay Territory (which is a small coastal territory associated with the ACT, on...
Heathland is one of the oldest recognised ecosystems in the world and, in southern and western Victoria, is found on flat to gently undulating country. Typically, this ecosystem has nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy soils with vegetation comprised of a dense layer of low growing small-leafed shrubs,...
Surveys for the Silver Xenica butterfly have commenced once again this autumn with the aim of confirming if two translocation sites near Glencoe (north-west of Mount Gambier in SA) still contain the butterflies. The surveys involve walking at a slow pace along pre-determined transects to...
