In our special mid-month newsletter a couple of weeks ago, we shared a story with a series of before and after photos at Windermere Bay, north of Hobart, showing the rapid return of saltmarsh to the site is underway. This was just 12 months after...
In late November 2025, Bec and Justine, in conjunction with local saltmarsh guru John Aalders, undertook baseline vegetation monitoring for potential saltmarsh and wetland restoration areas at the Devil’s Corner property, on the shores of the Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site, east coast Tasmania. NGT had...
Moulting Lagoon is a stunning estuarine wetland and Ramsar site, on the east coast of Tasmania, containing areas of temperate saltmarsh. In March 2025, NGT completed a desktop assessment to identify additional opportunities for hydrological restoration of wetlands and saltmarsh, in the peripheral areas of...
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...
We recently took another trip to the edge of Moulting Lagoon, on Tassie's east coast, in November 2024. The purpose was to continue to monitor the ecological recovery of saltmarsh in response to restored hydrology at the Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s Long Point Reserve and the...
NGT's Hobart-based wetland crew, Bec and Justine, undertook a trip to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tassie recently (in early April 2024), to download the data from our long-term water level and salinity loggers. This was a few days after Mark also managed...
Close to twelve months of baseline monitoring data has now been captured for the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site! The Apsley Marshes is located on the east coast of Tasmania, and you can read more about our original introduction to the Marshes here. The baseline data...
First of all, welcome to a massive June newsletter full of exciting news from NGT's work across south-eastern Australia! But before we get into the rest of the stories from the team, given the number of interesting things that have happened lately I'm also going...
On a perfect, sunny autumn day Tasmania's east coast on Thursday 11th May 2023, NGT, in partnership with NRM South and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day at Long Point and The Grange properties, which border the Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site. The...
If you are keen to see the saltmarsh remediation works completed recently adjacent to Moulting Lagoon for yourself, then this is your last chance to register your interest to attend NGT's next Tasmanian Field Day! The main levee built by convicts in the 1800s being backfilled...
