It's been a busy spring so far, with lots of activity underway, including lots of planting!- At Mt Burr Swamp we've had some nursery vollies planting out Gahnia clarkei at Mt Burr Swamp to sustain local rare butterflies while we are re-establishing riparian zone vegetation...
We've had many wonderful visitors to our reserves and out and about lately: Firstly (below top left), a group from Hamilton Field Naturalists Club and our SW volunteer group out at Walker Swamp for tree planting, but it was too wet & windy! NGT's Ayesha...
Scott from NGT met up with local TAFE students studying conservation and ecosystem management to learn how to use fyke and seine nets to survey threatened small-bodied fish at the Ornamental Lake in Mildura. We detected Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeons in both seine net hauls and...
NGT's Tassie team Bec and Justine have been out and about at Long Point, Tasmania doing some water level monitoring in the saltmarsh. They saw some beautiful regenerating samphires (Salicornia species) - aren't the colours spectacular, and it sure looks muddy! Meet Vicki, who is in...
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...
