The Aldinga Washpool is one of Adelaide's last remaining coastal lagoons. Those familiar with NGT's ongoing work at the Aldinga Washpool, from past articles and our 2022 report, will know that one of our proposed restoration options for this significant lagoon involves sediment excavation. This...
Ben spent the week of 10-14 February 2025 at Minyumai Indigenous Protected Area in northern New South Wales, working with the Rangers to implement some of the landscape rehydration skills learned during the training provided by the Mulloon Institute in November. Readers may recall that...
When it comes to hydrological restoration works at Stipiturus Conservation Park (Glenshera Swamp) south of Adelaide, which commenced in 2017, it is pretty much "job done". While there are still some artificial drains affecting site hydrology towards the downstream end of the swamp on private...
The Fleurieu Peninsula (South of Adelaide, and home to critically endangered Fleurieu Swamps) has lost someone of central importance to the restoration of its rare and threatened ecosystems. John Brame died suddenly in December, at home with his partner Andrea Jenkins, aged just 65. John's...
It's been a while since we updated readers on progress at Minyumai Indigenous Protected Area on the NSW north coast. You may recall from past blogs that NGT has been working with the Bandjalang clan Traditional Owners at Minyumai since early 2022 to plan and...
The word "immersive" often gets used to describe something deeply absorbing, particularly a technologically generated experience that is very life-like. Well, at NGT we like to encourage people to get away from the artificially generated world and immerse themselves in the real, natural world. With...
Since early 2021 NGT has been investigating the ecological history and restoration potential of the Aldinga Washpool/Wakondilla, one of the last coastal lagoons of its type in the Adelaide region. Our 2022 Report proposed several actions that could be taken to undo some of the...
Calling all NGT friends and supporters in the Adelaide and Fleurieu Peninsula region. Would you like to get involved in some important, hands-on conservation work?On Sunday 11th August 2024 the Friends of Stipiturus and Hesperilla Conservation Parks are hosting Swampfest 2024, a community planting day...
Back in March Ben, Bryan, Tessa, NGT intern Vicki Bruce and long term NGT volunteer Andy Lines were busy in the Adelaide Park Lands on a project commissioned by the City of Adelaide. The objective was to map the wetland vegetation and survey the mammals,...
NGT's Ben Taylor is a member of the Mount Compass Area School's Environment and Conservation Committee, which oversees the management of "School Swamp". School Swamp is located on the grounds of the school (60 km south of Adelaide) and is another important remnant of the...
