Invertebrates (or more specifically insects) are a widely studied group of animals throughout the globe, with more studies than you can 'poke a stick at'. These studies range from understanding more about individual species or populations in a given area through to particular guilds of...
It is time to share a couple of fascinating, but vastly different perspectives on the award winning Long Swamp Restoration Project - now that the restoration works are complete. One perspective is from the sky, and the other is from the past.Firstly, let's go back...
Following approval of my Fellowship report, I've officially become a Churchill Fellow! My Fellowship focused on the conservation translocation of threatened Australian freshwater species, namely, 'To develop world leading reintroduction strategies for threatened South Australian aquatic species'. My Fellowship report summarises the main activities of my overseas travels...
The 11th February 2020 was the United Nation's 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science' - a day that promotes gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and is part of a resolution to achieve full and equal access to and participation...
For anyone interested to learn a little more about the inner workings of NGT, our 2019 Annual Report is available to download as a pdf from our website. So much happens in the course of a year; it is always a little hard to know where...
With NGT's wetland reserves still holding water, flocks of waterbirds have been keeping the team on point as they look to identify who is around … and it seems that they have been getting some extra help from above! For those of us who don't have...
On the 16th of January, NGT quietly passed another milestone, marking eight years since we launched the organisation from humble beginnings back in January 2012. We're recognising this milestone by shining a light on a few timely announcements that really promote our core theme of putting...
To mark the upcoming occasion of World Wetlands Day on the 2nd of February 2020, we have some wonderful news to share publicly for the first time!We've worked to restore some pretty amazing wetlands over the past 8 years (for some examples, see the second half...
One of the great joys of wetland restoration comes from the follow up surveys undertaken to monitor the outcomes of on-ground actions. Restoring productive wetlands that are able to hold water through summer and into autumn provides much sought after habitat for birds that are...
In Spring 2019, NGT’s bushcare crew was involved in protecting some of south-west Victoria’s native grasslands, carrying out careful weed control work in important roadside grassland reserves near Dunkeld. With temperate native grasslands being mostly cleared or degraded by past agricultural development, most remnants in the...
