Over the past couple of months, since the ABC news story about Walker Swamp resonated around the world in February, we've continued to see an increase in new subscribers to the NGT monthly email newsletter - which is really fantastic. If you are one of...
Keep an eye out for the NGT Newsletter in April or May, when you will hear all about our latest restoration initiative and your chance to be part of creating NGT's 8th Restoration Reserve. This exciting new project is our soon to be announced 'end...
Over the past couple of weeks, Ben and I have had the opportunity to kick off a new project on the east coast of Tasmania, near Freycinet National Park, and it turns out we arrived just in time to experience a major episodic rainfall event...
The recent stories of flooding across the eastern part of our continent have once again brought the complex issue of floodplain development into sharp focus. Let's start by thinking a little about land use change in rural Australia...
Over the past month, since the ABC news story about Walker Swamp resonated around the world in February, we've continued to see an increase in new subscribers to the NGT monthly email newsletter - which is really fantastic. If you are one of those wonderful...
On a sunny day in November last year, I was doing fish sampling in various wetlands at Mt Burr Swamp when something caught my eye. In the net I had captured something tiny that I had seen before; I recognised it by the beautiful orange...
Over the summer months, Sheryl, Bryan, Jess, Taylah - along with students from Grant High School - have been exploring the wetlands at Mt Burr Swamp to obtain a better understanding of the aquatic fauna on the property. While the largest and most prominent wetland is...
Last Friday I dropped into NGT's Green Swamp Restoration Reserve to download some water level data from a logger we have had out there for the past six years. This is something I do twice a year, usually in spring and then again in March....
Over the past couple of months, I have been busy working on a range of educational projects and activities - from running bird courses with the community to connecting local schools with education opportunities at Walker Swamp. In fact, the latter was featured in a...
In recent weeks, the Limestone Coast Landscape Board has partnered with NGT to deliver a couple of fun and educational citizen science events.First up, back in mid-February we had an event focussed on bats and their food sources for local landholders. Rose and I set...
