Over the past couple of years we've been working with Aringa North owner and manager, Hoges. A beautiful property, situated about 10 km north of Port Fairy, Aringa North has a large number of wetlands which provide habitat for brolga, swans, frogs and an...
Come along to the Nelson Hotel to learn all about what NGT has been up to in the Glenelg River region. Supper provided. These three short talks kick of at 7:30pm (Vic time): The Glenelg Ghost! Hear how anglers from Nelson and elsewhere are helping us learn more about...
In recent threatened flora news we have two sub-projects of RUEC to talk about: Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) and threatened orchids. Avenue Cassinia is a critically endangered shrub endemic to the area between Kingston SE, South Australia, and Edenhope, Victoria. There are only about 1200 known...
Steve Bourne snapped this long-neck turtle emerging from its slumber as Bool Lagoon awakes, receiving flows from Mosquito Creek once again. Great photo Steve - and thanks for sharing it with us! [caption id="attachment_15596" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Long-neck turtle at Bool Lagoon[/caption]...
For those of you who follow our other social media, you may already be aware that we have passed some milestones recently - namely, 500 likes on Facebook, and 200 followers on Instagram! We enjoy sharing our news with you across these diverse formats, and appreciate...
Not long after 1893, when the stories shared in Part 1 of this series were recorded, the fox became seriously entrenched in the region and the environment started to undergo a significant transformation. But first, what can the records tell us about this period, and how that transformation...
[caption id="attachment_15374" align="alignright" width="300"] Swamp daisy (Alittia cardiocarpa) at Mortlake Common[/caption] If you’ve spent any time on the highways recently, you may have been happy to notice that many of the wetlands that have been dry over the past couple of years have been receiving good...
We’re still in the midst of planting season, and in the next couple of weeks NGT will be undertaking a translocation of the nationally threatened Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) as part of the RUEC project (to follow on from threatened orchid and Trailing Hop-bush translocations we...
They're a few of the fascinating things to be found at our Maam Water Reserve project site, just out of Warrnambool! [caption id="attachment_15334" align="alignright" width="420"] Dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella pusillla) (image: M. Hammer)[/caption] Things have been steadily ticking along over the last few months at this small wetland reserve...
Last Thursday (the 21st July 2016), I was very privileged to be one of 14 speakers from around Australia who were invited to share their restoration success stories - to mark the launch of the National Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration in Australia, and...
