At the beginning of March, a hardy bunch of NGT staff loaded the utes with trapping equipment, spades and picks, eskies and unheard of quantities of oats and peanut butter (for bait, of course!) and made our way up to the Wimmera to conduct a...
The Autumn 2017 Edition of From the Ground Up has just hit regional Post Office boxes, and it features a couple of updates from NGT. First up (from page 7) is news about some great assistance we've had up at Eaglehawk Waterhole from the Tatiara Green...
The second NGT update in the latest edition of From the Ground Up (on page 8), gives a snapshot of the varied role of NGT's Community Nursery - from experimental propagation and revegetation techniques, to producing plants that help bolster populations of some of our...
During a recent visit to Stipiturus CP to plan upcoming proposed restoration works, we came across a small group of flowering Spiranthes australia - one of our more spectacular native orchids. This is just one of many important species that rely on our threatened swampy habitats that...
After a great community session in December to kick-start this project, NGT's Lachlan Farrington will be hoping to catch up face-to-face with anyone who has an interest in the Tookayerta Catchment over the next few weeks, to keep the conversation going as we continue to...
If you have managed to get out and poke around a few wetlands lately you would have seen a large number and possibly a variety of species of Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies). It hasn't been unusual to find up to 8-9 species at any given...
Many of NGTs supporters have a strong interest in our wetland species, and they don't come much more iconic than the majestic Brolga! The latest edition (Edition 19, Summer 2017) of Plains Facts includes a nice little progress summary of the NGT Brolga research project being undertaken...
Last year I was invited to speak at a fantastic single day restoration workshop in Sydney attended by around 300 people, and the event was recorded by the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) for RegenTV - a diverse on-line educational resource set-up by AABR for...
The white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) is a spectacular bird of prey, and thanks to the major flow down the Wannon River late last year, a pair was spotted by NGT's Lachlan Farrington at Brady Swamp. The birds were subsequently photographed by Rod Bird of the...
It was World Wetlands Day last week (on the 2nd of February) which means the latest edition of Wetlands Australia Magazine has hit the virtual shelves. This time around two NGT stories feature, including: an article by our ecologist Lauren Veale about the latest native fish monitoring...
