Swamps, Tea Bags and Climate Change
So what do tea bags have to do with swamps?...
So what do tea bags have to do with swamps?...
Our new Mulloway Tagging Program is off to a great start, with four recaptures recorded already! For more information, you can read all about the latest information in our first Newsletter, available here Newsletter No. 1. [caption id="attachment_28801" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Kobi Rothall is one of our dedicated...
In recent days, NGT staff from far and wide across our focal region between Melbourne and Adelaide gathered in Nelson for our annual staff workshop. To get things started, I gave an overview of the organisation's performance over the last 12 months and presented our annual report,...
After last year's wet season, the 2017 wet season has snuck under the radar and with lots of other jobs on the go, I hadn't been up to the Grampians to check in on Gooseneck and Brady Swamps for a while. Well I wasn't disappointed...
Three years ago, we took a closer look at the long and complex dispute surrounding the name for this remote but beautiful permanent freshwater lake at the eastern end of Long Swamp, in Discovery Bay Coastal Park. You can revisit that earlier story by following...
"When God was creating Eden he secretly made another garden called Honan and he didn't tell anyone about it and that's what we're discovering today". This is how Troy Horn, one of the creators of the new Honan walking trails, summed up the area. Honan Native...
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Over the past few weeks, I've has been hosting workshops with anglers across Victoria to kick off the new mulloway tagging project. The project is funded through the Victorian Fisheries Authority, by Recreational Fishing License Fees. The project aims to tag 2000 mulloway over the...
A couple of weekends ago, I was lucky enough to fly to Darwin and attend the National Recreational Fishing Conference. This is an event held every two years with the purpose of sharing information and talking about the future direction of recreational fishing in Australia....
Back in September, I was lucky enough to be invited to present on one of the conference themes - 'Security' - at the SA State Landcare Conference in Clare. I was given a bit of creative licence, so it was a chance to explore some tricky ecological questions...