For the first four years or so after I wrote the first NGT blog (which was way back in February 2012, not long after NGT's public launch on the 16th January 2012), we relied on an automated email feed service to collate and circulate these...
Last month's article about the recent quoll capture near Beachport triggered a couple of fascinating follow-up stories that are definitely worth sharing!First of all, the story of the Spotted-tailed Quoll captured at Cobdogla, near Barmera, on the River Murray in SA in 1959, brought back...
The recaptured Spotted-tailed Quoll. Photo by Frank Pao-Ling Tsai. In a flurry of activity late last month, word spread fast of news of a Spotted-tailed Quoll being captured in what seemed like the most unlikely of places - a rural property situated on the South East...
At the recent Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International Conference in Darwin, I had the privilege of representing NGT and our ongoing work with the Minyumai Land Holding Aboriginal Corporation, who own and manage the Minyumai Indigenous Protected Area in northern NSW within Bandjalang Country,...
While I was in Darwin recently for the Society for Ecological Restoration's International Conference, I was asked to do a short interview for the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) to give some insights into NGT's approach to the restoration of ecological processes. While there...
This month, as I write my articles for the NGT newsletter, I am in Tasmania - on the Tasman Peninsula to be precise - which is a current focal area for NGT given an eco-hydrological assessment we have recently commenced for the Tasmanian Land Conservancy's...
As you may have gathered from some of the other articles this month, the last four weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind, personally taking me from north to south, right across this vast continent. As well as attending the SER2023 conference in Darwin,...
On Saturday the 7th of October, NGT's 6-day long Grand Tour of Ecological Restoration came to a fitting conclusion, with a major community event at Walker Swamp. It was here that we were joined by over 100 members of the community to celebrate a major...
Places are limited and the countdown to the start of the NGT Grand Tour is now on! After a fantastic experience in last year's South Australian Nature Festival, where NGT hosted a bus tour of the Fleurieu Peninsula, this year we have decided to do...
Part of the land addition at Walker Swamp. Photo: Mark Bachmann As we reported previously, thanks to the generous support of over 200 donors, on 30th June 2023, NGT successfully settled the purchase of an additional 390 acres of land adjacent to the northern end of...
