Last week I has the pleasure of catching up with our friends from the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club, a group of great people that NGT has developed a strong working relationship with over the past few years. Before my talk, it was a particular privilege...
From Adam Miller - For those of you that are up to speed with NGT’s current activities you will know that we are in the process of completing a major wetland restoration project in the lower reaches of the Grampians National Park. We have partnered with...
Thousands of wetlands are scattered across south-western Victoria making them a defining landscape feature, and these systems support a unique diversity of flora and fauna. Since European settlement more than 7800 (53%) of the region's wetlands have been lost due to agricultural practices. This has...
The latest edition of Wetlands Australia magazine was released to coincide with World Wetlands Day 2015. You can visit the Australia Government website for the edition here. This time around, NGT managed to get a couple of good news stories about our work published - you can download a pdf...
After two successful years of the Gooseneck Swamp restoration trial, and given the dry spring which has made equipment access feasible, it is great to be able to report that works got underway last week to permanently reinstate the lunette bank between Gooseneck and Brady...
The early signs were certainly there, but there is now little doubt that summer has come early this year and, unlike last year, spring rains have completely gone missing. So we find ourselves in the situation where (in the last couple of weeks) the Wannon River...
[caption id="attachment_7419" align="aligncenter" width="511"] Have you been hearing them lately too?Spring is the time of year for frogs to be out and about in our wetlands![/caption] Yes, it is that time of year again...
For anyone with an interest in natural history, coming across a revealing historic reference is always an exciting moment. While doing some homework looking for historic material for the recently released report on Gooseneck Swamp, I came across a couple of fantastic articles from the Australasian...
The latest edition of Wetlands Australia magazine has just hit the web, and NGT features include updates on projects at Gooseneck Swamp and Long Swamp. You can read a pdf of Lachlan's article, summarising the first year of waterbird monitoring led by the Hamilton Field Naturalists...
What a difference a couple of weeks can make to a floodplain wetland! Back on the 21st July, parts of Gooseneck Swamp were just starting to pool with water, but the majority of the swamp (although the soil was saturated) was still dry. [caption id="attachment_6981" align="aligncenter" width="300"]...
