At Warrnambool's back door, in South West Victoria, lies Kelly Swamp. When I say 'back door', I'm talking 5 mins drive, or 15 mins by bike from the CBD. It's a seemingly wild, open space and somewhere that I have been slowly discovering and exploring...
At the beginning of June, I headed to sunny Brisbane to attend Freshwater Sciences 2023. This was the combined annual conference of the Society for Freshwater Science, the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society and the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society, and the first time that all...
There has been a busy start to the year up at Walker Swamp with our regular monthly Fieldwork Fridays taking place and many tasks completed, thank you volunteers! The remaining 2023 Fieldwork Fridays will take place on the last Friday of each month. Two Saturday tree...
As NGT's 'Recharge Farms' project (which has been supported by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board for the past 15 months) comes to a close, we have been busy compiling all of the relevant information for the Hutt Bay wetlands into the management and restoration plan...
I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days at Lake Hattah over the June long weekend and it got me thinking about our view of the landscape and what it tells us. As ecologists, reading the landscape and interpreting what's going on is...
Rowan Swamp is an approximately 150 hectare wetland feature, situated near the township of Lake Rowan, in the Goulburn Broken CMA region about 40km north of Benalla.After about 18 months of eco-hydrological investigations and planning, in 2022 NGT installed a trial weir structure to restore...
Ben, Lachie and Mark recently returned to the NSW North Coast near Evans Head to continue NGT's work at Minyumai Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). As described in previous blogs, Minyumai IPA is owned and managed by Bundjalung Traditional Owners, who are restoring the native vegetation...
Recently NGT hosted three different education events: a 'Trees on Farms' field day, a Glenthompson Shorebird Workshop and a nature education day with Daylesford Dharma School. It was wonderful to work with the individuals behind these events, whom had all heard of NGT and wanted...
Time is flying by, and it has now been four weeks since we shared the exciting news about the potential to expand NGT's Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve. But before we get to the numbers, let's pause for a moment to take in the view!The image...
If you cast your mind way back to 2016, NGT launched our first major public land purchase fundraiser, as we worked together with our partners and supporters to create the Mt Burr Swamp Restoration Reserve in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. The original...
