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Australasian Bittern have returned to a restored Hutt Bay wetland – but who’s watching who?
It’s not often you get a chance to get up close to the secretive Australasian Bittern. A moving shadow of the wetlands, often you’re sure you saw one in the reeds… but then it was pretty far off… was it just a broken branch? Or...A visit to Hutt Bay – ecology and education in action
Earlier this month, I visited the Hutt Bay wetlands for the first time. I joined TAFE SA students from Mt Gambier who are studying Conservation and Ecosystem Management and wanted to learn about different techniques NGT used to monitor wetland health. Monitoring of restoration projects...NGT Photos From the Field in August – from Mt Vandyke and Hutt Bay, to the NGT nursery
The NGT team had a second planting day at Mount Vandyke in early August, where added another 5000 poa grasses as part of our grassland restoration project at the site. This safe-haven (predator-proof) reserve adjacent Cobboboonee National Park (north-west of Portland in Victoria) will one...Uncovering the hidden history of the Hutt Bay wetlands prior to the first aerial photography in 1945
As NGT’s ‘Recharge Farms’ project (which has been supported by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board for the past 15 months) comes to a close, we have been busy compiling all of the relevant information for the Hutt Bay wetlands into the management and restoration plan...Recharge Farms project community events continue with a crayfish hunt at Hutt Bay and planting at Mt Burr Swamp
Posted on 28 Nov 2022 at 07:57h
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Our South East SA based volunteers have joined us for some very muddy activities over the past month at Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp. First up, in late October NGT Principal Ecologist Lachie Farrington led a group at Hutt Bay in a workshop on...
Recharge Farms project community events at Mt Burr Swamp and Hutt Bay are in full swing! Burrowing crays, watercolours, brolgas, and more…
Posted on 31 Oct 2022 at 14:14h
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It’s been a very busy couple of months with a large number of volunteer events and school groups at both Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp as part of the Recharge Farms project being delivered in partnership with the Limestone Coast Landscape Board (in case...
Fauna surveys aplenty! – from Wilkin, to Hutt Bay and Mount Burr Swamp
Posted on 02 Oct 2022 at 12:57h
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NGT have been contracted (in South East SA and western Vic) to undertake many terrestrial fauna and flora surveys over the autumn-winter-spring-summer period of 2022. In fact, that has been our busiest run for this type of work in the past 10 years! Needless to...