Long Swamp Restoration

An unexpected find in the dunes of Discovery Bay: The critically endangered Coastal Leek Orchid

Posted at 25 Jan 2023 at 13:01h in News, Discovery Bay, Long Swamp, Long Swamp Restoration, Threatened Orchids by Mark Bachmann

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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...

Let’s go ‘around the grounds’… an end of year visual update on some of our major wetland restoration projects after a wet spring

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 Mark Bachmann

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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...

The ‘end of the beginning’ of the Long Swamp restoration story

Posted at 14 Jun 2022 at 12:44h in News, Long Swamp Restoration by Mark Bachmann

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It has been one of our longest running projects - delivered by NGT over the years in partnership with local community groups (led by Nelson Coastcare), NGT volunteers, Traditional Owners, Parks Victoria, the Glenelg Hopkins CMA and DELWP - but now that our latest grant-funded...

NGT presents national wetland restoration seminar to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on wetlands

Posted at 15 Dec 2021 at 19:55h in Long Swamp Restoration, Discovery Bay, Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes, Piccaninnie Ponds, Wetland Restoration by Mark Bachmann

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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...

What happens when water levels change or the ground sinks beneath our feet? – Let’s talk about subsidence in drained peatlands and just how much wetland plants move around

Posted at 23 Nov 2021 at 10:10h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Hutt Bay Wetland, Karst Springs, Long Swamp Restoration, Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Piccaninnie Ponds, Regional Recharge Farms, Square Waterhole Swamp, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration by Mark Bachmann

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Over the years at NGT we've worked on wetland restoration investigations and implemented projects at wide range of wetland types. If you have been following these stories for some time, you will have seen how valuable digital elevation data (a Digital Elevation Model or DEM,...

How are freshwater fish responding to the restoration of Long Swamp?

Posted at 22 Jul 2021 at 10:11h in News, Fish conservation, Long Swamp, Long Swamp Restoration by Nick Whiterod

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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...

Wind, water and vegetation are reshaping the Long Swamp restoration site at Nobles Rocks

Posted at 28 May 2021 at 22:21h in News, Long Swamp Restoration by Jonathan Tuck

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The restoration of Long Swamp has been quite a journey, and nearly two years on from the completion of final major restoration works at Long Swamp, natural coastal processes have taken over and are reshaping the dunes around the project site.The restoration works of 2019...

Important news for Karst Springs of the ‘Limestone Coast’!

Posted at 17 Dec 2020 at 14:51h in Wetland Restoration, Long Swamp Restoration, News, Piccaninnie Ponds by Mark Bachmann

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With little fanfare (although that may still be to come!), in the past couple of days we've noticed an update to the EPBC Act list of threatened ecological communities in Australia, on the Australian Government website.On the 15th of December 2020, the Karst springs and...

Photos of the Month: May 2020 – the NGT team get busy in wetlands!

Posted at 29 May 2020 at 16:13h in Long Swamp, Long Swamp Restoration, News, OBP Recovery, Photo of the Month by Lauren Kivisalu

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Yes, NGT love wetlands! Wetland restoration and research has been a big part of what the organisation has been about, right from the start. The team have worked across a vast array of different wetlands across south-eastern Australia. So for May 2020 we have a few...