Past editions of the NGT monthly email newsletter

Posted on 25 May 2022 at 21:38h 0 Comments

Dig through the archives… you can click on the image or hyperlinked text below to see each edition of the monthly NGT newsletter as it appears when we mail out the newsletter to our subscribers. These are listed in reverse chronological order, back to the...

Important news for Karst Springs of the ‘Limestone Coast’!

Posted on 17 Dec 2020 at 14:51h in Wetland Restoration, Long Swamp Restoration, News, Piccaninnie Ponds 2 Comments

With little fanfare (although that may still be to come!), in the past couple of days we’ve noticed an update to the EPBC Act list of threatened ecological communities in Australia, on the Australian Government website. On the 15th of December 2020, the Karst springs...

Sharing some fascinating old and new perspectives on Long Swamp

Posted on 20 Feb 2020 at 17:51h in News, Long Swamp Restoration, Wetland Restoration 1 Comment

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...

Exploring wetlands of the Discovery Bay Coast with the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club

Posted on 24 Feb 2016 at 16:51h in Long Swamp Restoration, News, Piccaninnie Ponds 0 Comments

Last Saturday I went on a bit of a trip down memory lane, as the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club (plus a couple of Portland Field Nats who also came along) came to see the various wetland restoration projects that have happened over the past decade...

Robbie’s ‘home’ – that is, he’s back at Long Swamp!

Posted on 23 Dec 2015 at 09:58h in Long Swamp Restoration, News 0 Comments

While we were at the NGT annual workshop last week – the exciting news came through! Robbie the bittern had completed retracing his steps from earlier in the year, and after recently spending time at Pick Swamp, and then looking around the Glenelg River estuary...

Long Swamp Restoration Trial update – measuring our success, a trickle reaches Eel Creek, and where’s Robbie?

Posted on 19 Sep 2015 at 17:47h in Long Swamp Restoration, News 2 Comments

Measuring our success at Long Swamp: Thanks to the funding support of the Victorian Government (DELWP), our monitoring so far at Long Swamp has had a particular emphasis on the recovery of aquatic habitats for nationally threatened species of fish, but the trial is also...

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