If like me, you have been watching the Mt Vandyke loan balance slowly dropping over recent months, then you probably thought things might take a while as we chipped away at it - I know I certainly did! But we have some wonderful news to...
We have arrived at the end of the year on a high at NGT with the land purchase loan of our Mt Vandyke reserve now paid off! Our newest reserve, Mt Vandyke, has been the subject of a matched funding campaign beginning in May this year...
Some time ago I began corresponding with Kirsty Hawkes, a natural sciences writer and communicator, about peat wetlands. She had been given the task of gathering and telling stories on different community perspectives of the St. Patrick's Day fires of March 2018 in south-west Victoria,...
In October we brought you the first in a series entitled Butterflies on the Brink in which we're showcasing the butterfly species most at risk of extinction in south-eastern mainland Australia. In this second installment, we are focussing on the Bright-eyed Brown (Heteronympha cordace wilsoni)....
Back in 2019 a friend suggested I have a chat to a fellow named Mark Bachmann who founded an organisation called Nature Glenelg Trust. So I made a phone call and what ensued was a series of great conversations about NGT, and how philanthropy might progress...
As part of a new program to involve volunteers in monitoring at Walker Swamp, and kick started through the Victorian Government's 2021 Community Volunteer Action Grants, an intrepid group of eager but amateur ecologists (I am sure they won't mind me calling us all that!)...
The Volcanic Plains of Victoria are synonymous with some of Australia's most productive agricultural landscapes and many of the plants and animals which once defined this area are now rare and threatened. Much of it lies behind farm gates and for the most part is...
NGT has teamed up with three other landholders in the Binnum-Bangham district (the Jones, Baulderstone, and Brewer families), plus Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation, Limestone Coast Landscape Board, and other community members and organisations to repair the impacts of past land management actions across four reserves in...
Over the past few months, I've been enjoying spending time at a number of project sites around western Victoria. A lot of my time has been has been spent in the Cobboboonee National Park looking for and treating woody weeds with the NGT bushcare team...
Late spring and early summer is a great time to get outdoors and our environmental education events have continued over the past few weeks, through our wetland science program with Grant High School. In classroom sessions, year 9 science students were introduced to the function...
