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...
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...
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,...
Thanks to a recent episode of ABC TV's Back Roads, I've had a few people reach out in the past couple of weeks to ask me about my own 'backyard' in the cross-border zone between Victoria and South Australia - a special part of the...
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...
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...
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...
