It was an action packed week at Walker Swamp a couple of weeks ago, with terrestrial fauna surveys beginning for the first time at this site, helping us to describe the baseline condition of the site before major restoration works commence in 2019. On day 1,...
NGT Senior Ecologist, Bryan Haywood, recently received the Green Triangle Timber Industry Work Health Safety and Environment Award, recognising his commitment to conservation within the forestry industry. Bryan has been with NGT since mid-2014, and has been working in the environmental industry in the South East...
[caption id="attachment_31391" align="alignleft" width="212"] Receiving my Fellowship from His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le.[/caption] As one of the nine South Australian Churchill Fellows awarded by The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust - AU in 2018, I attended a ceremony recently at Government House. The ceremony was hosted by the South...
Native fish were on show at the Currency Creek Investigator College Campus on November 1st as part of the world outdoor classroom day. Year 6 students spent the day by Currency Creek and had the opportunity to get in the water and have a hands on session learning about local native...
The following report is from a trip I made to the Australian Entomological Society Conference, which was held from 23-26th September 2018, in Alice Springs. I was fortunate enough to be accepted as a speaker within the Conservation Symposium and prepared a presentation about the...
I spied this northern quoll at Bell Gorge on a recent trip along the Gibb River Road in the Kimberleys, WA. Amazingly it was highly active in broad daylight. Bell Gorge is a popular swimming spot for tourists and it seems this quoll has switched from...
Toward the end of spring, as the wildflowers are fading out on the plains, they can still be in full swing up on the cooler and moister hills. At about 900m elevation on the Major Mitchell Plateau last weekend we came across this mass flowering...
The Small Things Festival will be held on Saturday 20 October on the civic green and surrounding venues in Warrnambool. 9am-3pm. The Small Things Festival has been made possible through a Community Development Fund grant from the Warrnambool City Council and financial sponsorship by the Glenelg...
We are very excited to announce that NGT is holding an Art in Science Workshop at Kurrawonga, Nelson, on: Sunday, the 18th of November 2018. Dive into the world of insects, spend a day exploring the diversity and start to understand what all the buzz is about. For...
On Thursday the 27th of September 2018, I was asked to join the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA) at their biennial conference dinner and awards ceremony in Brisbane.After a series of other National Awards were announced, it was down to the last category -...