Coming up soon, on Saturday 9th October, is World Migratory Bird Day, which celebrates bird species that tackle epic migrations. We thought we'd take the opportunity to showcase the Orange-bellied Parrot (OBP), a species that migrates across Bass Straight and between NGT's focal regions in...
South Australia's Nature Festival is back for a second time, and this year NGT is taking part. The festival is 10 days of events, encounters, and experiences to celebrate our love of nature in South Australia, and there are events throughout the state. There are...
Are you interested in learning more about the Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophemea chrysogaster) and where to find them?Please join us in Koroit on Saturday 5th June for the south-west Victoria Orange-bellied Parrot Workshop from 2pm at the Koroit Theatre Supper Room.You’ll have the opportunity to learn...
After a great Orange-bellied Parrot (OBP) season on the mainland last year, the good news kept on coming throughout the summer. By the end of winter, 52 OBPs returned to Melaleuca, Tasmania to join successful captive bred and released birds, resulting in 76 OBPs in...
Earlier in the year we kicked off a series of coastal workshops supported by the Coast Protection Board with a reef ramble at Cape Douglas. We had several interesting and unidentified finds that day and put the call out in our post last month for...
Over the course of 2021, we'll be running a series of workshops at NGT's Hutt Bay Wetland Reserve and surrounds, thanks to support from SA's Coast Protection Board. The series kicked off recently with a beach clean up and reef ramble at Cape Douglas. Nine...
NGT is excited to be a part of the Robe Summer Holiday Program in January 2021. The program is full of a wide variety of events that will appeal to all interest and age groups. Jess will be running multiple sustainable fishing, rockpool rambles, and...
Keeping with the coastal summer theme of recent species of the months, we bring you: Sea Hares! This month’s focal species is actually a genus; several species of Sea Hare are commonly found along the southern coastline of Australia. Sea Hares are slug-like organisms that...
We usually choose an endangered or rare species for our featured Species of the Month. If you've ever visited a beach in south eastern Australia you will recognise the Turbo Snail (Turbo undulatus) so it is by no means unusual. However, a recent question prompted...
To beat the summer heat, over 300 'cool' activities have been happening in January across Victoria's diverse and fascinating coastal and marine environments as part of the 'Summer By The Sea 2020' program. This program has now been running in the summer holidays for 25...
