- Current vacancy – Management Accountant 27/02/2025
Are you passionate about the not-for-profit sector and interested in working for a regional organisation making a difference on the ground? Are you looking for challenges and the opportunity to embrace a role that helps drive the financial success of an environmental organisation with national reach?
If so, this could be the job for you.
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- NGT’s Strategic Plan for 2025-2030 is hot off the press! 27/02/2025
Back in September 2023, we announced the renewal of the NGT Board and we’ve had a highly productive first year or so. One of the key tasks we set ourselves as an incoming Board was to create a new strategic plan for the organisation, publicly sharing the future direction of NGT as a standalone document, ...
- A little fish making a big comeback! 27/02/2025
Imagine you’re a little native fish, living your best life… then all of the water that you need to survive disappears, leaving you and your kin with little hope for survival. Following the millennium drought, Yarra Pygmy Perch – a gorgeous little native fish – disappeared from the Lower Lakes and was the first freshwater ...
- Babies, babies, babies – Releasing juvenile Murray Crayfish into SA! 27/02/2025
Have you ever seen a baby Murray Crayfish? One of the cutest (and feistiest) little animals around. With some great news for South Australia’s River Murray – for the first time ever, 250 baby Murray Crayfish have been released into the river, marking a huge milestone for conservation in SA. You may have read that ...
- Urban wetlands in Green Adelaide get a boost 27/02/2025
Aquatic plants are important for wetlands and play a key role in contributing to a healthy wetland ecosystem. Aquatic plants provide critical habitat for many aquatic organisms, oxygenate the water, stabilise sediment, filter excess nutrients from the water, and help regulate water temperature. Unfortunately, submerged aquatic plants are missing from a large number of wetlands ...
- Putting landscape rehydration skills into practice at Minyumai 27/02/2025
Ben spent the week of 10-14 February 2025 at Minyumai Indigenous Protected Area in northern New South Wales, working with the Rangers to implement some of the landscape rehydration skills learned during the training provided by the Mulloon Institute in November. Readers may recall that during training we constructed three types of small scale flow ...
- Restoration of a coastal dune complex at Fairyland, Bruny Island (Tas) 27/02/2025
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 restore important areas of wetland, including saltmarsh and swamp ...
- Wannon River insights part 6: 2024 saw “average” winter rainfall in the upper catchment, but what happened to flows? 27/02/2025
In the last newsletter, Mark presented a table comparing rainfall at Mt William (Duwul) to surrounding towns on the plains – Ararat and Hamilton. The Mt William weather station is the highest in southwest Victoria, at an elevation of 1150 m above sea level, and catches a lot more rain than other areas at lower ...
- Setting the scene for saltmarsh return at Windermere Bay (Tas) 27/02/2025
NGT commenced a saltmarsh recovery project at Windermere Bay on the River Derwent (north Hobart) in July 2024. The Derwent Estuary Program (DEP) engaged us to undertake an assessment and develop a restoration plan for an area of saltmarsh at Windermere Bay that had been subject to infilling during the mid-1970s, resulting in a ...
- Ocean temperature roller coaster and its local legacy 27/02/2025
Although most of NGT’s work is in terrestrial and wetland ecology, you may have noticed I have a keen interest in the coastal and marine environments, through the activities I run with various groups.
Over the summer, I spent many hours at the beach with my family. I noticed the water temperature to be warmer than ...
