In early February Mark, Lachie and Ben had the privilege of travelling to the north coast of New South Wales to meet with members of the Bandjalang community, owners and managers of Minyumai Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Minyumai IPA is a 2,163 hectare property of...
Regular readers will recall, from a previous blog, a project at Yundi Nature Conservancy, where NGT is helping landholder and conservationist John Fargher restore an area of the critically endangered Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp ecological community. The property includes some intact areas of Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp,...
Some time ago I began corresponding with Kirsty Hawkes, a natural sciences writer and communicator, about peat wetlands. She had been given the task of gathering and telling stories on different community perspectives of the St. Patrick's Day fires of March 2018 in south-west Victoria,...
This year is not only the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, but is also the first year in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.I was invited by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, to explore...
Over the years at NGT we've worked on wetland restoration investigations and implemented projects at wide range of wetland types. If you have been following these stories for some time, you will have seen how valuable digital elevation data (a Digital Elevation Model or DEM,...
Last month we let you know that the feasibility of restoration at Lake Hawdon North, near Robe SA, is being investigated through the Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin program, and that NGT has designed baseline ecological monitoring for the project. Well, this month, monitoring got underway...
As we near 10 years (coming up in January 2022) since the NGT experiment began, it has been a long, meandering, at times difficult, but also very rewarding journey.If you'd like to learn about the story of NGT (from yours truly) and also hear from...
I've been really enjoying getting around the far southwest of Victoria these past few weeks, checking on how some of the sites we have rehabilitated are responding after a couple of years of decent rainfall. For a few of sites that have had a pretty...
There has been some media lately in the South East of South Australia (the Limestone Coast), that has introduced an exciting new concept in water management for the region - after the local Landscape Board attracted recent investment to establish what have been dubbed "Regional...
Lake Hawdon North is a large (2,475 hectare) seasonal wetland located about 15 km east of Robe. From 1915, Drain L, the highest yielding artificial drain in the South East of SA, was excavated through the bed of Lake Hawdon North. Since then, the water...
