Hutt Bay Wetland

Posted at 29 Sep 2025 at 15:49h in News, Hutt Bay Wetland, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve by
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As we explored earlier this year, the south-eastern corner of the Australian mainland west of Melbourne was experiencing a prolonged dry spell that in many areas had become the worst on record. This past few months, the recovery was slow to start after a very...

Posted at 27 Dec 2024 at 14:08h in News, Burdens Marsh, Sloping Main Reserve, Green Swamp Restoration Reserve, Hutt Bay Wetland, Long Swamp Restoration, Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Rowan Swamp Restoration Trial, Square Waterhole Swamp, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve by
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Over recent months I have managed to drop in on a number of NGT's longer-term wetland restoration sites from across SA, Victoria and Tasmania, to check current conditions. Given that a number of sites have experienced well below average rainfall in 2024, read on if...

Posted at 20 Dec 2022 at 10:04h in News, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Green Swamp Restoration Reserve, Hutt Bay Wetland, Long Swamp Restoration, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Rowan Swamp Restoration Trial, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration by
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Over the past month, I have tried to drop in to a number of our major wetland restoration sites in SA and Victoria, given the unusually wet spring weather which has given most of these sites a real boost heading in to a later-than-usual summer...

Posted at 28 Nov 2022 at 07:57h in News, Hutt Bay Wetland, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Regional Recharge Farms by
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Our South East SA based volunteers have joined us for some very muddy activities over the past month at Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp. First up, in late October NGT Principal Ecologist Lachie Farrington led a group at Hutt Bay in a workshop on Burrowing...

Posted at 31 Oct 2022 at 14:14h in News, Environmental Education, Hutt Bay Wetland, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Regional Recharge Farms by
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It’s been a very busy couple of months with a large number of volunteer events and school groups at both Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp as part of the Recharge Farms project being delivered in partnership with the Limestone Coast Landscape Board (in case...

Posted at 02 Oct 2022 at 12:57h in News, Hutt Bay Wetland, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Regional Recharge Farms by
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NGT have been contracted (in South East SA and western Vic) to undertake many terrestrial fauna and flora surveys over the autumn-winter-spring-summer period of 2022. In fact, that has been our busiest run for this type of work in the past 10 years!Needless to say,...