During mid-summer for the last six years, a group of keen volunteers and NGT staff have gathered at NGT's Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve for two days of field work, to assess the condition of River Red Gums across the reserve. Mid-summer is chosen for these...
Continuing with this month's Red Gum theme at Walker Swamp, there was a nice short article written by Gavin McGrath from the ABC a couple of weeks ago, which you can read by following this link. It occurred to me that it might also be...
Our Community Nursery site at Vansittart Park is in a fantastic central location for our volunteers, and allows us to grow seedlings for numerous restoration projects. However, space at our small nursery is limited and we have nowhere to expand, and this year's planting season...
Hidden at the base of a rocky cliff face in the lower Rodwell Creek is a deep, peaceful pool that is home to one of the only remaining River Blackfish populations in the South Australian portion of the Murray Darling Basin. The population at Rodwell...
At the western edge of its national range in Australia, a beautiful little native fish has been in a fight for survival for over 15 years. The Yarra Pygmy Perch was first found in the Lower Lakes in South Australia in 2002, but unfortunately disappeared...
Flame Sedge-skipper Southern Boobook Owl chick Brolgas at Mt Burr Swamp Swamp Daisy-bush (Olearia glandulosa) Swamp Mazus (Mazus pumilio) Southern Grass-dart Bryan snapped some cool critters and rare plants whilst out and about this month: The first two were during surveys of vegetation (The Claypans) inside a OneFortyOne forestry site, where he...
Back in September last year, we explained why NGT talks a lot about peatlands, because for those of us interested in peatlands, they can seem a bit like the perpetual 'elephant in the room'. Why is this, you might ask?Well, that is because for...
Monitoring using photos from fixed points (called photopoints) can be a successful method of visually showing the changes that take place over time. In NGT's case we use photopoints to see the changes brought about from environmental restoration within a previously modified site or landscape....
In last month's story, we started to put together a timeline of events that helps to explain the early drainage history of Burdens Marsh, a significant area of saltmarsh habitat within the Tasmanian Land Conservancy's Sloping Main Reserve. As our investigation continues, we've been able...
It’s not often you get a chance to get up close to the secretive Australasian Bittern. A moving shadow of the wetlands, often you’re sure you saw one in the reeds… but then it was pretty far off… was it just a broken branch? Or...
