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...
Things have been ticking along nicely at Kurrawonga - NGT’s beautiful brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri) and rough-barked manna gum (E. viminalis ssp. cygnetensis) woodland property. This 100 acre woodland is on the edge of Nelson and the Lower Glenelg National Park, in the far south...
For the last 12 months, NGT’s bushcare crew has been working steadily away near the end of the Glenelg River at Nelson, on a DELWP-funded project tasked with battling invasive woody weeds.The key objective of the project is to help protect and improve key native...
With the recent drain-filling works complete at Hutt Bay (summarised here previously), we've been eagerly waiting for the winter rain to fall. Early winter saw the soil soak to capacity, and mid-winter rains - rather than slowly filling and flowing down the artificial drains -...
The NGT planting crew has been busy with a range of revegetation projects through the winter. We began July with a small sea of native seedlings in the NGT nursery, and bit by bit they’ve gone out to new homes at restoration sites across the...
The restoration of Long Swamp has been quite a journey, and nearly two years on from the completion of final major restoration works at Long Swamp, natural coastal processes have taken over and are reshaping the dunes around the project site.The restoration works of 2019...
When you think of pre-European vegetation in south-east SA, what do you see?An old Red Gum standing guard over a waterhole, a carpet of flowers and sedges spreading from its feet? Brown Stringybarks twisting toward the sky from heathy sandhills? Or a dense landscape of...
Hancocks Victorian Plantations (HVP) recently engaged NGT to plan and start work on a multi-year revegetation project at one of their properties in far South West Victoria. The 75 hectare restoration site holds a former airstrip and limestone quarry, and lies about 20 km south...
Down in the South East of SA, we’re all about the limestone. As well as being the key ingredient in many of our landforms and resulting in spectacular karst formations, its presence at varying depths and densities drives the composition of much of the native...
Getting to sleep at night wasn't a problem for our bushcare crew members this autumn and early winter. A busy schedule and an overdose of fresh air and hard work had each of our crew sleeping like a log most nights! A couple of these...
