- March update: Wirey Swamp land purchase fundraiser 27/03/2025
It has now been a couple of months since we announced NGT’s exciting new plan to create the Wirey Swamp Restoration Reserve, to enhance habitat for a whole host of wetland dependent threatened species. Being situated near a key flocking location for the threatened Brolga, increases our chances that the site will attract a pair ...
- Making the landscape better for Brolga – The impact of wetland restoration on an iconic species 27/03/2025
Australia’s wetlands are home to many remarkable species, but few capture the imagination quite like the Brolga (Grus rubicunda). Known for their graceful movements and elaborate courtship dances, these tall elegant birds with their striking red caps are an unforgettable sight. At NGT we have a soft spot for the species, whose southern mainland range ...
- A new plan to recover threatened fish populations in the Murray Corridor 27/03/2025
At NGT, we’ve just completed an important long-term recovery plan for threatened freshwater fish in the Murray Corridor. The plan focuses on 6 threatened fish species, all of which are floodplain specialists (a particularly vulnerable group) that are threatened with extinction – the Murray Hardyhead, Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon, Olive Perchlet, Southern Pygmy Perch, Flathead Galaxias, ...
- Restoration of D’Arcy’s Lagoon: More good news for wetlands on Bruny Island (Tas) 27/03/2025
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 short distance to the north of Fairyland, which was the ...
- New study finds very low risk of acid sulfate soils at the Aldinga Washpool 27/03/2025
The Aldinga Washpool is one of Adelaide’s last remaining coastal lagoons. Those familiar with NGT’s ongoing work at the Aldinga Washpool, from past articles and our 2022 report, will know that one of our proposed restoration options for this significant lagoon involves sediment excavation. This is because our analysis of the history of the Washpool ...
- How are our Fleurieu Swamps holding up in the current dry conditions? 27/03/2025
Swamps are natural sponges, helping to hold surface water in the landscape, and recharging groundwater. In SA’s Fleurieu Peninsula, these unique ecosystems are critically endangered. Many have been altered since colonisation, often with artificial drains criss-crossing their surface, taking any rainfall runoff away or discharging groundwater as quickly as possible, in an attempt to dry ...
- Walker Swamp photos highlight the challenge of ‘Shifting Baselines’ in ecology 27/03/2025
The surprisingly rapid and ongoing changes at NGT’s Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve witnessed over the last six years have been highlighted by the collection of a set of photo points across the reserve. In case you’re wondering, a photo point is a fixed location where a comparative photo is taken at a specific interval – ...
- Citizen scientists survey butterflies as part of ‘World of Insects’ workshops 27/03/2025
Can you identify your local butterfly species?
Could you imagine being part of a national (or even a global) monitoring team?
Through NGT’s Our World of Insects workshops and excursions we have started training volunteers to identify local butterflies and undertake surveys to gather long-term data. We are grateful to the Limestone Coast Landscape Board which has ...
- Murray Crayfish now nationally listed in Australia to aid their recovery 27/03/2025
In BIG conservation news – the Murray Crayfish (Euastacus armatus) has officially been listed as Vulnerable under the EPBC Act 1999 (Date effective 05-Mar-2025).
The second largest crayfish in the world (second to the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish), is now protected under national environmental law. Previously this species was listed as threatened or protected in ...
- A rare and unexpected sighting – a wombat at Hutt Bay! 27/03/2025
Back in November, I had an unexpected message from one of our elite NGT field work officers Andrew, who’d been doing some late-night fishing on the coast near NGT’s Hutt Bay property, and had travelled along our reserve track – “Wombat ran across the track 2.30am.” it read.
I immediately did a double-take! We do get ...
