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...
Coastal Connections is back again in January with a packed program, including Fishing Clinics! Starting Monday 2nd January, Coastal Connections offers coastal activities for the whole family. Make sand sculptures, be beach detectives, and join NGT in a Fishing for the Future Clinic. The Fishing for the...
Last weekend Lauren V and Jess held the first of this summer's Fishing for the Future Clinics with the Naracoorte Scout Troupe. Two clinics were held at the Robe marina to teach the youth the basics of sustainable fishing practices. These include why we have size...
WOW! What can I say? The last five months have gone by at blistering pace. It was a fleeting 7 or 8 months ago that I was in another country trying to figure out what I’d be doing in 2016. And then came the internship offer...
