I'd like to begin by saying a big thank you to all those volunteers out there, including our valued NGT volunteers. Thank you so much for all your help this year! Putting your hand up to help as a volunteer makes so many tasks possible...
As we've shared in recent months, NGT is delighted to be working again with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), undertaking an eco-hydrological assessment of Burdens Marsh, a highly significant but modified wetland area that lies within the TLC's Sloping Main Reserve on the Tasman Peninsula.One...
Over recent days, I had a chance to swing past the Mt Burr Swamp stage 2 wetland restoration area, and check to see how things are looking six months after remedial works concluded. The best perspective to show the change over this time is shown...
Monitoring of chosen groups of indicator wildlife that tell us about our restoration journey is a fascinating component to what we do here at NGT. Secretly, I think we'd all like to be out doing surveys of some sort!This month I gave a talk to...
Readers will be aware from past blogs that NGT, in collaboration with the South Australian (SA) and Commonwealth Governments, has been investigating the restoration potential of Lake Hawdon North for several years. This 2,500 hectare seasonal wetland fills most years, but drains rapidly due to...
As you may have read in Mark's post we recently held our NGT end of year workshop, where NGT staff from across south-eastern Australia get together to share project news, ideas, and each others company - this time in Robe. A field trip is usually...
For the first four years or so after I wrote the first NGT blog (which was way back in February 2012, not long after NGT's public launch on the 16th January 2012), we relied on an automated email feed service to collate and circulate these...
Southern purple-spotted gudgeon Paul Motz from Monarto Zoo and Jason van Weenen from Green Adelaide some of the southern purple-spotted gudgen being released Releasing the fish NGT's Sylvia Zukowski with City of Marion's Kris Hanna (Mayor) and Glynn Ricketts Dr Sylvia Zukowski with gudgeon On a sunny morning in November, an...
The Yarra Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca obscura) is a small native fish, whose common name is derived from the Yarra River, situated at the eastern end of the species' range, but also occurs through south-western Victoria and southern SA, as far as the Lower Lakes of...
Last month's article about the recent quoll capture near Beachport triggered a couple of fascinating follow-up stories that are definitely worth sharing!First of all, the story of the Spotted-tailed Quoll captured at Cobdogla, near Barmera, on the River Murray in SA in 1959, brought back...
