Submerged aquatic plants play a vital role in wetlands, streams and rivers. They help purify the water and increase water quality, provide habitat and food to a wide variety of aquatic organisms and provide critical spawning habitat for native fish species to lay their eggs....
NGT has recently been engaged by the Derwent Estuary Program (DEP) to complete an assessment and develop a restoration plan for an area of saltmarsh at Windermere Bay on the shores of the River Derwent at Claremont, north of Hobart. In contrast to many...
A couple of weeks ago, I was sent a link to a very interesting story (thanks Brianna!), that provides the perfect prompt for us to revisit the all-important concept of urban wetland restoration. The fascinating topic of discussion this time around is the idea of...
In early October, NGT kicked off our Grand Tour of Ecological Restoration, with Day 1 starting at Oaklands Wetland in Adelaide's inner southern suburbs. Here NGT has been working with the City of Marion to breed threatened fish. The Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon has been thriving...
World Wetlands Day was on the 2nd of February and the theme for this year is worth sharing, because it speaks so clearly to one of our core purposes at NGT. Yes, we couldn't have picked a better theme! It's time for wetland restoration While we often...
Over the past several newsletters, we have talked quite a bit about flooding and its impacts in urban areas. These discussions occurred in the wake of the major rainfall events throughout last year. If you missed those stories, you can read them by following these...
Over recent months we have continued to look at issues surrounding flooding and the way we interact with our natural landscapes in Australia, especially in urban areas. A lot of interesting discussion has been generated by the 2022 floods, so I thought we'd share some interesting...
In case you missed it, last month we released our third discussion paper in a series that is looking at the potential role of wetland restoration in urban development, using the wallan wallan wetlands north of Melbourne as a case study. In the weeks since,...
Although this story has been in the pipeline for the past few months, it is especially timely to finally be sharing it with you now, as so much of eastern Australia is currently experiencing flooding at a scale that the continent hasn't seen in some...
Over the past few years, NGT has been exploring the complex challenge of how to ensure that floodplain and/or instream wetlands which were drained and farmed as a result of agricultural development, are not subsequently forgotten when land use change occurs and such areas are...
