Rainfall across south-eastern Australia has been noteworthy this year with many areas receiving well-above average spring rainfall and flood levels along some of the major tributaries of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) exceeding anything in living memory. Despite largely missing the big events over the...
It happened so long ago that it has been all but forgotten in recent years, but back in the 1960s the proposed diversion of the upper Wannon River's headwaters off Mt William in the Grampians was a source of great concern to many people in...
Over the past six months we have been holding regular Fieldwork Fridays at NGT's Walker Swamp, where NGT volunteers have been working alongside NGT staff to complete various tasks across the reserve. The biggest task that we have recently undertaken is a new revegetation area...
The Repairing the Past project is a collaboration between NGT and three other landholders in the Upper South East of South Australia, plus Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation, Limestone Coast Landscape Board, and other community members and organisations to repair the impacts of past land management actions...
Our South East SA based volunteers have joined us for some very muddy activities over the past month at Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp. First up, in late October NGT Principal Ecologist Lachie Farrington led a group at Hutt Bay in a workshop on Burrowing...
The past few weeks have been a bit of a blur, as I have caught up with some fantastic people in a range of places all around south-eastern Australia, sharing NGT's work with threatened species and ecological restoration. Here are some of the many highlights...
Although this story has been in the pipeline for the past few months, it is especially timely to finally be sharing it with you now, as so much of eastern Australia is currently experiencing flooding at a scale that the continent hasn't seen in some...
The big wet has arrived at Walker Swamp in the past couple of weeks, as we have gone from modest inflows and below average water levels to the highest levels we have ever seen at Walker Swamp in a matter of just several days.To give...
The southern bent-wing bat, a critically endangered species of south-eastern Australia, was recently crowned the inaugural winner of the title Australian Mammal of the Year. After a very exciting week or so of public voting in which one species was knocked out each day, the...
As part of the recent Nature Festival of South Australia, we joined with our restoration partners to showcase all the wonderful work that has gone into restoring Glenshera Swamp at Stipiturus Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula. A big turnout of about 25 eager participants...
