- We made it! Reflecting on the team effort over two years that underpinned the creation of the Wirey Swamp Restoration Reserve 29/07/2026
We’ve been on quite the journey over the past couple of years, but thanks to more than 200 donors getting behind the project over that time, we were able to first secure (via Stage 1 in 2025) – and now double the size (via Stage 2) of the Wirey Swamp Restoration Reserve.
We hope everyone ...
- Kentbruck wind farm update: NGT is seeking transparency when a decision is made under the EPBC Act 29/07/2026
As long-term readers of NGT’s newsletter will recall, since last year we’ve been discussing the challenge posed by poorly-sited renewable energy developments. A quick recap…
The proposed Kentbuck wind farm would be sited adjacent to several public reserves (including a Coastal Park and three National Parks), and NGT’s wetland restoration project site situated within ...
- Time to give our rivers and wetlands a fighting chance – A long-overdue review of ground and surface water management in western Vic is underway 29/07/2026
Last year we shared the story of how NGT tried to seek a common-sense outcome for the upper Wannon River in the Grampians National Park. If you’d like to understand how that rather unfortunate sequence of events unfolded, then you can find those stories listed in reverse chronological order here.
If you don’t have time review ...
- New project brings water to rejuvenate Murray floodplain and save species 29/07/2026
In far-west New South Wales, on the banks of the Murray River, lies Willingie Station, a 2,362 hectare conservation property. The private property has been managed for conservation for the past decade. The site holds important habitat, particularly for native fish and waterbirds. River regulation and water extraction has seen the floodplain dry and degrade, ...
- Marking four years of Murray Crayfish releases – returning an iconic species to the lower Murray in SA 29/07/2026
On a glorious sunny July day, NGT, together with the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board and River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation had the pleasure of undertaking the fourth year of Murray Crayfish releases into the SA reintroduction reach of the River Murray.
Two hundred adults and juveniles were released into a beautiful river ...
- Research leading to better conservation outcomes for threatened small bodied fish species 29/07/2026
For the first time, a group of researchers from NGT, Adelaide University, CSIRO, University of Tasmania and Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Research Centre have produced credible age estimates for the nationally Vulnerable Southern Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca australis). The age estimates are made by inspecting the tiny ear bones known as otoliths.
The ...
- Winery volunteers donate a day’s work and a special gift at Mount VanDyke 29/07/2026
NGT were very fortunate to have the five staff from Treasury Wines Estates – Seppelt’s Drumborg vineyard – volunteer for a day to assist with some tasks that required many hands.
The volunteer crew spent the day at Mount Vandyke with NGT field staff in tow. We enjoyed a sunny winter’s day, by pulling up ...
- The restoration of Lake Hawdon North – Video presentation 29/07/2026
The Basin Waterbird Network is a forum for the sharing of knowledge and building of relationships amongst those working in the area of waterbird science and management across the Murray-Darling Basin.
In April, Ben was asked to give a presentation to the Network on the recently completed restoration of Lake Hawdon North.
Luckily for ...
- NGT Out and about – Photos from the field in July 28/07/2026
These photos were taken at NGT reserve Mount Vandyke. Rosemary & Andy are conducting weed control throughout the felled bluegum stumps (first photo), and all over the mount… a beautiful view from up there (second photo)!
And there’s also John (NGT Grassland Ecologist) admiring the lush Kangaroo Grass (third photo).
Lastly, Rosemary (NGT Field Works Team Leader) ...
- Woods Well Spyridium conservation takes a major step forward 20/07/2026
The conservation of the nationally endangered Woods Well Spyridium (Spyridium fontis-woodii) has reached an exciting new milestone, with Nature Glenelg Trust (NGT) recently engaged by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board to prepare a management plan for this remarkable species.
Woods Well Spyridium (Spyridium fontis-woodii) flowering in March 2026
The Woods Well Spyridium occurs only in the Coorong ...
