On the banks of the Derwent Estuary north of Hobart is Windermere Bay. Here, the Glenorchy City Council has commenced a boardwalk extension and replacement project, in a saltmarsh area that suffered a significant contraction in area due to infilling with soil in the 1970s....
Bruny Island, off Tasmania's southeastern coast, is a biodiversity hotspot and now the focus of a new restoration project. NGT commenced the Bruny Island Wetland Restoration Program in 2024, with support from enthusiastic private landholders, Landcare Tasmania, and NRM South. The program is designed to...
NGT commenced a saltmarsh recovery project at Windermere Bay on the River Derwent (north Hobart) in July 2024. The Derwent Estuary Program (DEP) engaged us to undertake an assessment and develop a restoration plan for an area of saltmarsh at Windermere Bay that had...
We recently took another trip to the edge of Moulting Lagoon, on Tassie's east coast, in November 2024. The purpose was to continue to monitor the ecological recovery of saltmarsh in response to restored hydrology at the Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s Long Point Reserve and the...
NGT has recently been engaged by the Derwent Estuary Program (DEP) to complete an assessment and develop a restoration plan for an area of saltmarsh at Windermere Bay on the shores of the River Derwent at Claremont, north of Hobart. In contrast to many...
For the past 12 months we have been working on a restoration plan for a special saltmarsh in Tasmania, Burdens Marsh. The saltmarsh is situated on Sloping Main Reserve, one of the Tasmanian Land Conservancy's (TLC) newest Reserves, on Turrakana/The Tasman Peninsula. Burdens Marsh has...
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 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...
Close to twelve months of baseline monitoring data has now been captured for the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site! The Apsley Marshes is located on the east coast of Tasmania, and you can read more about our original introduction to the Marshes here. The baseline data...
On a perfect, sunny autumn day Tasmania's east coast on Thursday 11th May 2023, NGT, in partnership with NRM South and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day at Long Point and The Grange properties, which border the Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site. The...
