At the very end of October 2024, many members of the diverse team from across NGT came together for 2 days, to participate in our annual staff workshop - which was held in Mildura for the first time. With NGT staff now based in many...
In exciting news NGT will be leading a new threatened fish research project in the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) region! The project team includes partners from CSIRO and the University of Adelaide. This important project, led by NGT's senior aquatic ecologist Dr Sylvia...
In late November, students and staff from three Adelaide schools gathered on the banks of Torrens River at Lockleys with precious cargo. The schools (Urrbrae Agricultural College, Holy Family Catholic School and St Francis Xavier's Regional Catholic School) had been given the very special task...
Fifty-two top native fish experts from across the country including Sylvia Zukowski (NGT), Nick Whiterod, Michael Hammer and Maiko Lutz (ex-NGT), have banded together to complete the nation's first comprehensive national freshwater fish assessment. They used the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria...
The 11th Australian Stream Management conference was held in Victor Harbor SA over the 11th - 14th August, showcasing both the local region and some of NGT's sites. NGT senior ecologists Sylvia Zukowski and Ben Taylor were selected to present at the conference and develop...
The annual Mount Lofty Ranges fish and habitat monitoring has been completed by NGT staff, revealing great ongoing data and trends in native and alien fish populations throughout the region. Monitoring in 2024 represents more than twenty years of data which is an amazing accomplishment....
Lots of fish action in Mildura this month! First up - about 1000 Olive Perchlet (also known as Agassiz's Glassfish) were released into a surrogate breeding dam on the 4th of June in Mildura, Victoria. This small native fish species is endangered in NSW, and...
What do you do when aquatic vegetation grows over too much of a vital surrogate wetland that is housing threatened fish species? - get many hands together and pull it out! Aquatic vegetation is excellent for native fauna, but if it grows over too...
Southern purple-spotted gudgeon Paul Motz from Monarto Zoo and Jason van Weenen from Green Adelaide some of the southern purple-spotted gudgen being released Releasing the fish NGT's Sylvia Zukowski with City of Marion's Kris Hanna (Mayor) and Glynn Ricketts Dr Sylvia Zukowski with gudgeon On a sunny morning in November, an...
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,...
