This is the first monthly NGT Newsletter update since the Walker Swamp story spread far and wide, so it is wonderful to be able to welcome our many news subscribers. Even if you are not local to south-eastern Australia (Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales...
"Ecologists buy 1,000-acre blue gum plantation and transform it into wetland", was the title of an article recently published by Emily Bissland, Senior Features Reporter for ABC South West Victoria. "Ecologist" is a title ubiquitous across our organisation, and we probably take it for granted...
Further to this recent story in our November newsletter, today we are very proud to announce the creation of the Ryan James Robertson Memorial Fund, within the NGT Foundation.This perpetual named fund has been established at the request of Ryan's family, and is comprised of...
We've been exploring the issue of forgotten fauna on the Australian mainland for some time, and thanks to a recent documentary on the ABC, we can now get an incredibly intimate understanding of what life is like for one of these long-forgotten, now extinct mainland...
Every year, just after Christmas for the past three years, I've made a special trip in search of...
Over the course of 2021, we'll be running a series of workshops at NGT's Hutt Bay Wetland Reserve and surrounds, thanks to support from SA's Coast Protection Board. The series kicked off recently with a beach clean up and reef ramble at Cape Douglas. Nine...
Since the start of December last year, the Mulloway Tagging Program (funded by VFA through Recreational Fishing License Fees) has recorded thirteen new recaptures. One recaptured fish took me all the way back to December 2017, when Shane Murrell tagged a 66 cm Mulloway at...
The Mt Gambier Rail Trail project is progressing well with a variety of small herbs, grasses, and shrubs seen flowering recently after only being planted in August last year. Over 1300 locally native seedlings are establishing well along a 250-metre section of the trail with...
This month, the latest edition (#33) of the Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update was published on-line for World Wetlands Day. As well a as range of interesting updates from around the country, the final stages of NGT's restoration project at Long Swamp also featured. If you...
It is a bit hard to know where to start with this blog, as the past few weeks have been a wild ride! The Walker Swamp Live ABC Broadcast Team: Doug Craig, Mark Bachmann, Rod Bird, Neil Murray, Jeremy Lee, Gavin McGrath, Julie Dohle and Greg...
