Hidden at the base of a rocky cliff face in the lower Rodwell Creek is a deep, peaceful pool that is home to one of the only remaining River Blackfish populations in the South Australian portion of the Murray Darling Basin. The population at Rodwell...
At the western edge of its national range in Australia, a beautiful little native fish has been in a fight for survival for over 15 years. The Yarra Pygmy Perch was first found in the Lower Lakes in South Australia in 2002, but unfortunately disappeared...
Back in September last year, we explained why NGT talks a lot about peatlands, because for those of us interested in peatlands, they can seem a bit like the perpetual 'elephant in the room'. Why is this, you might ask?Well, that is because for...
Monitoring using photos from fixed points (called photopoints) can be a successful method of visually showing the changes that take place over time. In NGT's case we use photopoints to see the changes brought about from environmental restoration within a previously modified site or landscape....
In last month's story, we started to put together a timeline of events that helps to explain the early drainage history of Burdens Marsh, a significant area of saltmarsh habitat within the Tasmanian Land Conservancy's Sloping Main Reserve. As our investigation continues, we've been able...
It’s not often you get a chance to get up close to the secretive Australasian Bittern. A moving shadow of the wetlands, often you’re sure you saw one in the reeds… but then it was pretty far off… was it just a broken branch? Or...
Australian Painted Snipe at Lake Hawdon. Photo: Abel Zevenboom During Nature Glenelg Trust’s annual Wetland Bird Survey of Lake Hawdon North in November the weather was wonderful, the abundance of birds plentiful and the lake had far-reaching inundated mudflats. While teams were split up, most of...
A week or two ago I was reading a fascinating antechinus story in the Conversation, which talked about an observed incident of cannibalism in the Dusky Antechinus, and the potential importance of the resources left behind (i.e. bodies left available to other carnivores) as a...
Imperial Jezebel (Delias harpalyce) Photo: Bob Green Bryan is our resident invertebrate expert, and is particularly adept at butterfly identification. So recently when he spotted some unusual butterfly observations popping up on iNaturalist, he was reminded of his own surprising sighting of this particular butterfly, which...
Colleen lighting the hilltop burn As some of you may have read in previous blogs, Mount Vandyke in an NGT restoration reserve, in in the heart of Cobboboonee National Park in Victoria. The site is a volcanic peak, which has been historically cleared for grazing and...
