May 20th - 24th was National Volunteer Week. During the past couple on months we have been featuring some of our wonderful NGT volunteers in the newsletter. On the 24th of May we also held a morning tea at our Mt Gambier nursery to celebrate...
National Volunteer Week in 2024 is May 20-24th. Over the past few months we have been featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month’s newsletter. This month we have the third installment where we meet Suzy Meyers and Lynn Gilbert. Here are some words...
Scott from NGT met up with local TAFE students studying conservation and ecosystem management to learn how to use fyke and seine nets to survey threatened small-bodied fish at the Ornamental Lake in Mildura. We detected Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeons in both seine net hauls and...
Participants in the first Bird Identification and Monitoring Course in Halls Gap in April 2021 Four years after the initial work to establish an ongoing citizen scientist monitoring program in the Grampians / Gariwerd National Park, and train forty bird observers, the eighth biannual Great Gariwerd...
In early April, the first Orange-bellied Parrot (OBP) migrants were sighted on the mainland from their summer breeding ground at Melaleuca, Tasmania. It’s time to get out and start looking for these critically endangered birds! Flock of Orange-bellied Parrots. Photo by Chris Tzaros Every year volunteers are...
A few weeks ago, NGT was given the fantastic news that our application to the SA Government for an Environmental Citizen Science Large Grant had been successful (you can see the full list of recipients here). This funding will allow us to kick off a...
In the lead-up to Volunteer Week in May, we will be featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month's newsletter. This month we have the second installment: meet Carole Ryan of the University of the Third Age, a gardener, child sponsor, passionate supporter of...
NGT, in partnership with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day on Wednesday 3rd April 2024 at Burdens Marsh - a recent and important addition to TLC's Sloping Main Reserve, on the Tasman Peninsula, south-eastern Tasmania.The field day provided an opportunity for locals...
NGT's wetland restoration work in Tasmania over the past few years has been capably led by our small but passionate team of Hobart-based part-time staff, Bec Sheldon and Justine Latton. You can read about Bec and Justine's observations from their recent visit to Moulting Lagoon...
Heathland is one of the oldest recognised ecosystems in the world and, in southern and western Victoria, is found on flat to gently undulating country. Typically, this ecosystem has nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy soils with vegetation comprised of a dense layer of low growing small-leafed shrubs,...
