It has been bubbling away quietly in the background for the past 12 months, but NGT are now in the final stages of an eco-hydrological assessment to evaluate restoration options for an area of important saltmarsh habitat that has been declining in condition over several...
I had moments of doubt when I wondered if this day would ever come...
Patrick Hanna, MLA/MLC, (b. 1819, d. 1890) Next month NGT will be publicly sharing another Discussion Paper on the Wallan Wallan wetlands, to follow on from one we released in March last year (2019), where we explored the risks and opportunities associated with Herne Swamp. This...
The global population of Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) has received a further boost in management this past autumn with an ecological burn being carried out at the Blackford site. Avenue Cassinia is known to occur at just a handful of sites in our region, and...
From Orange-bellied Parrot monitoring in south-west Victoria, to the Silver Xenica translocation, to the Southern Bell Frog conservation facility, to prescribed burning to support Avenue Cassinia regeneration, and rare plant propagation in our nursery, a lot of NGT's work centres around our local threatened species. More...
Aquasave-NGT's Sylvia and Nick have been out and about busy sampling for freshwater fish within the Inman Valley of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. This photo of the month captures a great moment, where one of the landowners, Baden, was able to come and join in...
The UN World Oceans Day on June 8th each year celebrates the major role that the ocean has in our health and that of our planet. It also draws attention to the impact that human actions have, in turn, on the health of the ocean. The world's...
Late autumn sees whales returning to Australian waters to breed after spending the summer months in the Antarctic feeding grounds. The most commonly seen whales in our region are humpback and southern right whales, as well as blue whales (see this month's post for some...
In talking about recent beach discoveries, it also brings about an important question that many of us may not know the answer to...
When I first moved to Warrnambool in the early 1990s, I made almost weekly trips back and forth to Melbourne, across the western Victorian volcanic landscape. Dotted with dormant and extinct volcanoes, and pockmarked with lakes and wetlands, it's a landscape I have grown fond...
