For those of you who have been following NGT since the early days, you will notice that our website still very much looks the way it used to, right back at the beginning! Truth be told, we've been so busy getting on with our important...
Flame Sedge-skipper Southern Boobook Owl chick Brolgas at Mt Burr Swamp Swamp Daisy-bush (Olearia glandulosa) Swamp Mazus (Mazus pumilio) Southern Grass-dart Bryan snapped some cool critters and rare plants whilst out and about this month: The first two were during surveys of vegetation (The Claypans) inside a OneFortyOne forestry site, where he...
Australian Painted Snipe at Lake Hawdon. Photo: Abel Zevenboom During Nature Glenelg Trust’s annual Wetland Bird Survey of Lake Hawdon North in November the weather was wonderful, the abundance of birds plentiful and the lake had far-reaching inundated mudflats. While teams were split up, most of...
NGT's Bec Sheldon and Ben Taylor were lucky enough to work amongst some rather spectacular scenery in Tasmania recently, whilst undertaking some water level monitoring at Apsley Marshes. Access can be difficult here, but kayaks serve a dual purpose as useful floating gear holders. What...
It's planting season! NGT's Mount Gambier field crew have been busy planting natives at Timberlands, Penola. The team have been adding habitat complexity with a range of locally occurring shrub and tree species: NGT Mt Gambier field crew from left Angus Samson, Tom Josephs, Blake-Alexander Kerslake NGT's...
Walker Swamp is a large and complex wetland system, that NGT originally purchased in 2018 for restoration (read more about our initial restoration works here).Understanding how large wetland systems like Walker Swamp respond to restored cycles of inundation (flooding) over time and space, requires a...
Recently NGT hosted three different education events: a 'Trees on Farms' field day, a Glenthompson Shorebird Workshop and a nature education day with Daylesford Dharma School. It was wonderful to work with the individuals behind these events, whom had all heard of NGT and wanted...
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...
[caption id="attachment_34329" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Australasian Bittern near Nobles Rocks[/caption] This curious and nationally endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) was snapped on our wildlife camera during NGT’s Long Swamp restoration works near Nobles Rocks. This project was funded with the support of the Victorian Government, and was...
