Back in August, we announced a range of staffing updates at NGT, including saying farewell to Paula Thomson who had helped NGT significantly over the past couple of years with our philanthropic partnerships, by connecting with our supporters in Melbourne and beyond. I'm pleased to...
As we've shared in recent months, NGT is delighted to be working again with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), undertaking an eco-hydrological assessment of Burdens Marsh, a highly significant but modified wetland area that lies within the TLC's Sloping Main Reserve on the Tasman Peninsula.One...
Over recent days, I had a chance to swing past the Mt Burr Swamp stage 2 wetland restoration area, and check to see how things are looking six months after remedial works concluded. The best perspective to show the change over this time is shown...
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,...
