Since we shared our last update in January's newsletter, it has emerged that the national environmental assessment (under the EPBC Act) is now underway for the highly contested, poorly-sited, proposed Kentbruck wind farm. This key step in the approval process has triggered a new wave...
The proposed Kentbruck Wind Farm has passed the Victorian environmental assessment process despite its siting within a highly sensitive landscape surrounded by nature conservation reserves. NGT has expressed our objections to the siting of the project via the inquiry process and has recently explained our...
If you've been reading our newsletter over the past 6 months, then you might recall seeing my story back in July about the complex and contested issue of where wind farm developments should be sited in the landscape in relation to our most precious biodiversity...
I hadn't planned on writing a follow up story to last month's article, exploring the complexity of renewable energy siting decisions, but the high level of interest and response to the story indicates it is a topic that is front-of-mind for many people, as our...
IntroductionAfter thinking it over quite deeply for the past few weeks, I've decided to bring you - our monthly newsletter subscribers - into our confidence, for a candid appraisal of a subject that seems to be largely escaping the attention of the mainstream media and...
For anyone who lives in western Victoria or southern SA, I don't need to tell you how dry it has been! The local stories of dry dams, springs and bores, empty rainwater tanks, dying trees and parched dry ground in place of usually semi-permanent wetlands...
Back in December, when I was taking a look at Long Swamp, in Discovery Bay Coastal Park, I came across something that you don't see too often: a beautiful, fleshy leek orchid in the middle of a sandy track in the dunes. Despite being a...
This year is not only the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, but is also the first year in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.I was invited by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, to explore...
Last Saturday, the Bittern Recovery Project and NGT ran a field survey for Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) in Long Swamp, near Nelson in south-west Victoria. Since NGT’s hydrological restoration work at Nobles Rocks, the wetland has seen an increase in suitable habitat for the nationally-endangered...
It’s been a long time coming ...
