As usual the NGT crew has been busy out in the field this month. Here's a selection of photos to show you what we get up to behind the scenes. First up, insights into a days field work on the east coast of Tasmania. NGT's...
Nursery Coordinator Angela (right), and volunteer Sue, working in the NGT nursery In Mount Gambier the NGT nursery has been a hive of activity getting plants ready for the winter planting season. In the photo above, Sue and Angela are busily tending to the growing of...
With staff based all the way from Tassie, to Dunkeld in Vic and Victor Harbor in SA, there are plenty of interesting things going on every day. So we've decided to share some photos from the field every month, to give our readers some insights...
Much of what goes on in a wetland after we've undertaken remedial works to restore hydrology or manage other threats, goes on quietly without fuss. For fish, frogs, crayfish and many of the smaller water birds, you actually have to go looking closely to find...
Although the title of this article may sound like a Dr Seuss rhyme, I assure you it's not about a made up species! A few years ago on a quick trip up to Birdsville (in far south-west Queensland, just over the South Australian border), I...
When my son Dale got home from his seasonal (DELWP) fire crew work out in the south-western Victorian bush the other day, it was just like any other day...
The recent spring rains across parts of south-eastern Australia have meant significant flows in waterways and the filling of wetlands; some seeming to appear before our eyes. Lachie has provided a great summary of the hydrological impacts across NGT's wetland restoration reserves in another post...
The Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar) is a species that has mastered elusiveness. They shelter and nest in soil cracks, and utilise surrounding grassy vegetation and rocks to keep well hidden during their daytime movements. These small reptiles are in fact not totally legless -...
Yes, NGT love wetlands! Wetland restoration and research has been a big part of what the organisation has been about, right from the start. The team have worked across a vast array of different wetlands across south-eastern Australia. So for May 2020 we have a few...
For the past few months my family and I have been charmed by very special visitors - Gang Gang Cockatoos! They are often exceptionally quiet, and if it weren't for catching out the corner of one eye the pieces of eucalypt nuts falling to the...
