After much discussion, planning and preparation, the second week of April was ear-marked for the exciting task of deploying water level and salinity loggers across the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site. Luckily, the weather was fine and despite some recent rain, the tracks into the main...
NGT hosted our inaugural Tasmanian wetland restoration workshop on Wednesday 4th May 2022, supported by NRM South, with funding provided via the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. The workshop was attended by thirty-four people, including five NGT staff, and representatives from Tasmanian NRM organisations, the...
As a further sequel to last month's story about the commencement of saltmarsh restoration works adjacent to the Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site at Yard's Hole, this month we're taking a look at the early works completed next door at Long Point, a Tasmanian Land Conservancy...
Now that I have arrived back home in western Victoria after a stint based in Swansea last month on Tasmania's east coast, I thought I'd share a few more images of the restoration works at Yards Hole, the wetland we spoke about in last month's...
After 12 months of extremely interesting background research, site assessment and planning, the first phase of on-ground works have just commenced as part our eco-hydrological investigation into the Moulting Lagoon and Aspley Marshes Ramsar sites on the east coast of Tasmania - an important project...
Ecological assessment and monitoring continues at Long Point, Moulting Lagoon. During two hot and windy trips to Long Point in November and December 2021, Bec and Justine, together with John Aalders (University of Tasmania), undertook vegetation surveys at established transects across Long Point. John’s work...
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...
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,...
In late October we undertook a reconnaissance trip to explore the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site, located immediately adjacent to the northern end of Moulting Lagoon. The east coast of Tasmania has been experiencing an unusual number of east coast lows this spring, which together with...
On Saturday the 2nd of October, I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the 2021 Tasmanian Community Landcare conference in Launceston. The only problem is that thanks to Covid-19 impacting on travel options, I couldn't attend in person! But every cloud has...
