Wetland Restoration on Private Land

Posted at 31 Jul 2023 at 22:16h in News, Wetland Restoration, Wetland Restoration on Private Land by
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In the past couple of weeks, we've finally brought to a close all of our planned wetland restoration works for the 2023 autumn/winter period - and it has been a big year! Since February, our scheduled works have taken us all over south-eastern Australia, working...

Posted at 28 Oct 2020 at 12:05h in News, Wetland Restoration, Wetland Restoration on Private Land by
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'Whoop-Boom!' Over the past several weeks NGT has been helping with the Glenelg Hopkins CMA's Bittern Recovery Project, by undertaking listening surveys across several wetlands in south-west Victoria. 'Whoop-Boom' is the sound we have been eagerly listening for - the call of the male Australasian...

Posted at 19 Sep 2019 at 15:07h in News, National Landcare Programme, Wetland Restoration, Wetland Restoration on Private Land by
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This year we have been delivering an Australasian Bittern habitat restoration project which is supported by Glenelg Hopkins CMA, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. A few months ago I wrote a short article about works we had undertaken at Aringa North,...

Posted at 07 Jun 2019 at 12:05h in National Landcare Programme, News, Wetland Restoration, Wetland Restoration on Private Land by
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The Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciliptilus) is a key bird of dense swamps in south-west Victoria and south-east South Australia, but it is also Nationally Endangered.  Bitterns like to hide out in wetlands with tall dense vegetation and forage in still, shallow water. They are so...