Wetland Restoration

In the newsletter last month, Bec introduced NGT's wetland restoration program on Bruny Island, situated off the south-eastern Tasmanian coast, south of Hobart. This month, we're sharing the story of the subsequent restoration works that have now been successfully completed at D'Arcy's Lagoon, situated a...

Bruny Island, off Tasmania's southeastern coast, is a biodiversity hotspot and now the focus of a new restoration project. NGT commenced the Bruny Island Wetland Restoration Program in 2024, with support from enthusiastic private landholders, Landcare Tasmania, and NRM South. The program is designed to...

It has been a very cool and dry start to winter in southwestern Victoria with rainfall in the region falling well below average. This is a bit of a change from the last few years that had above-average rainfall that filled wetlands across the landscape.However,...

While I was in Darwin recently for the Society for Ecological Restoration's International Conference, I was asked to do a short interview for the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) to give some insights into NGT's approach to the restoration of ecological processes. While there...

Last month we shared with readers the story of recent works at Stipiturus Conservation Park, near Mt Compass, south of Adelaide. Sandbag structures first installed in 2017 were covered with soil, using a small excavator, in early April this year, converting them from temporary to...

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...