Maiko and Nick have been busy undertaking Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) listing assessments as part of Species Expert Assessment Plans (SEAPs) for Australian freshwater fish and spiny crayfish. Prior to these SEAPs, only 40 freshwater fish and just three spiny crayfish were listed...
'Saving the spinys: urgent actions to conserve the Euastacus freshwater crayfish', is a ground-breaking bushfire recovery project funded by the Australian Government’s Bushfire Recovery for Wildlife and Habitats program.The project has provided vital information needed to the conserve species of Euastacus that were impacted by...
Murray hardyhead is an endangered native fish that now persists in less than 15 subpopulations patchily distributed across its former range across the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The species experienced major population declines during the Millennium Drought when many sites deteriorated and became disconnected. Nick, Sylvia,...
Conservation translocations are increasingly considered necessary in the recovery of threatened species. Translocations for population restoration generally fall into two categories: Reintroduction: returning a species back to former habitat; orReinforcement: releasing into existing population to bolster numbers and/or improve genetics. Translocations can be complex, and the...
What's better than there being 53 described species of spiny crayfish from the Euastacus genus? A bunch of new species being discovered!A new molecular taxonomy study, led by world-leading molecular geneticist Professor Chris Austin and Aquasave-NGT's Nick Whiterod, has revealed as many as 26...
Freshwater fish are important indicators of environmental change, and a long-term study by Aquasave / NGT staff recently published in the journal Landscape Ecology, illustrated how they were used to explore the benefits of the hydrological restoration of Long Swamp, the Ramsar Convention listed coastal...
It seems a lifetime ago now, but over 66 days in 2019, I met with more than 50 experts across cities and towns in five countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, Republic of Ireland and Sweden) as part of my Churchill Fellowship. My focus was ‘To...
[caption id="attachment_37622" align="alignright" width="300"] Clayton's Crayfish (Euastacus claytoni) [Rob McCormack][/caption] Spiny crayfish from the Euastacus genus are an inconspicuous casualty of the widespread and enduring bushfires that profoundly impacted Australia over 2019–20. As with other freshwater animals, spiny crayfish were not only directly impacted as the...
Our Southern Bell Frog facility (housed within the Clayton Bay Nursery and Environment Group at Clayton Bay) is going well - it currently houses 32 fat (in a good way) and healthy frogs who are presently going through their winter hibernation to be ready for...
Things are coming along in NGT's nationally threatened Southern Bell Frog (aka Growling Grass Frog - Litoria raniformis) conservation facility at Clayton Bay! We now have 35 frogs being carefully maintained by a band of committed volunteers supported by Rupert and Sylvia from NGT. Getting individuals...
