To say we've been a little busy at NGT over the past couple of months would be a serious understatement, with a plethora of project reports to finalise before the end of financial year - and unfortunately this has kept us a bit quieter than usual...
Many community members would remember the feeling of satisfaction after helping build a trial stricture (made of 7000 sand bags) to regulate the final artificial outlet from Long Swamp at Nobles Rocks. This weir successfully resulted in the recovery of approximately 200 hectares of aquatic habitat...
Last year I was invited to speak at a fantastic single day restoration workshop in Sydney attended by around 300 people, and the event was recorded by the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) for RegenTV - a diverse on-line educational resource set-up by AABR for...
It was World Wetlands Day last week (on the 2nd of February) which means the latest edition of Wetlands Australia Magazine has hit the virtual shelves. This time around two NGT stories feature, including: an article by our ecologist Lauren Veale about the latest native fish monitoring...
I recently had the pleasure of attending the annual Australian Society for Limnology (ASL) Conference in Ballarat. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Waters of past and present: shaping pathways for future management‘ and focused on decision making in times of uncertainty. This theme...
The September 2016 edition of Australian Birdlife magazine features a great story by Matt Herring, Inka Veltheim and Andrew Silcocks, which tells the full story of Robbie the Bittern, as well as the wider Bitterns in Rice satellite tracking project, which has taught us so much...
It has been a long-time coming, but finally over much of the region people are saying "this is what a wet year looks like", or "it reminds me of the 80s or early 90s". My first visit to the region was in 1996 and there was...
Earlier this month, we were excited to host a Glenelg River Information Night at the Nelson Hotel. The night was a great way of providing community members with an update on a number of our regional projects, all of which involve significant involvement from the...
Come along to the Nelson Hotel to learn all about what NGT has been up to in the Glenelg River region. Supper provided. These three short talks kick of at 7:30pm (Vic time): The Glenelg Ghost! Hear how anglers from Nelson and elsewhere are helping us learn more about...
It has been a while since we last checked in to see how the Long Swamp Restoration Trial in the far south west near Nelson is faring, so let's have a quick look at the latest...
