Join us for volunteer activities at two of NGT’s wetland restoration demonstration sites: our very own ‘Regional Recharge Farms’

Posted on 24 Apr 2022 at 13:21h in News, Hutt Bay Wetland, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Volunteer 0 Comments

You may remember that late last year we introduced you to the new concept of Regional Recharge Farms. In case you missed it, these are locations in the landscape where water is retained in natural wetland features, in our case using nature and the wetland...

Cobrico Swamp and the importance of keeping peat wetlands wet

Posted on 15 Dec 2021 at 20:02h in News, Wetland Restoration 0 Comments

Some time ago I began corresponding with Kirsty Hawkes, a natural sciences writer and communicator, about peat wetlands. She had been given the task of gathering and telling stories on different community perspectives of the St. Patrick’s Day fires of March 2018 in south-west Victoria,...

What happens when water levels change or the ground sinks beneath our feet? – Let’s talk about subsidence in drained peatlands and just how much wetland plants move around

Posted on 23 Nov 2021 at 10:10h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Hutt Bay Wetland, Karst Springs, Long Swamp Restoration, Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Piccaninnie Ponds, Regional Recharge Farms, Square Waterhole Swamp, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration 0 Comments

Over the years at NGT we’ve worked on wetland restoration investigations and implemented projects at wide range of wetland types. If you have been following these stories for some time, you will have seen how valuable digital elevation data (a Digital Elevation Model or DEM,...

Green Futures Now – working with our younger generation to tackle climate change

Posted on 22 Jul 2021 at 10:10h in News 1 Comment

During the past month, I’ve been working alongside Becky Nevin Berger (Youth Development Planner) and Lauren Schneider (Coordinator of the Natural Environment team) at the Warrnambool City Council (WCC) to deliver an exciting youth climate change project. Funded through DELWP, Green Futures Now involves working...

Hunting for teabags in a swamp – It’s just like searching for a needle in a haystack

Posted on 27 Feb 2021 at 20:06h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps 0 Comments

Every year, just after Christmas for the past three years, I’ve made a special trip in search of… no, not post-Christmas bargains… buried treasure! This year was the third and final year of such adventures, and I took my visiting rellies for a scenic drive...

Softfoot gives helping hand to save little fish

Posted on 26 Aug 2020 at 15:06h in News 0 Comments

With the assistance of private landholders, an endangered small bodied native fish species has been given a chance to rebuild populations numbers in the wild. Dams and wetlands on private property have been used to house and breed numbers of these fish to be released...

Turning trees into habitat – a great story on National Tree Day

Posted on 31 Jul 2020 at 17:41h in News 1 Comment

This year National Tree Day is being held on Sunday August 2nd. This day is Australia’s biggest community tree planting event and does a lot for understanding the value of trees and caring for nature – since 1996 this program has supported Australian communities to...

Kelp, krill and whales: Reflecting on World Oceans Day 2020 this June

Posted on 25 Jun 2020 at 22:39h in Marine, News, Reef Watch in the South East 1 Comment

The UN World Oceans Day on June 8th each year celebrates the major role that the ocean has in our health and that of our planet. It also draws attention to the impact that human actions have, in turn, on the health of the ocean. The world’s...

The early vote is in – the birds like the Walker Swamp renovations (and they’ve been telling their friends)

Posted on 30 Apr 2020 at 19:28h in News, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve 1 Comment

After six years of intensive monitoring at Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve (WSRR) and following completion of the major on ground works, the initial response of the avian community to these changes can now be gauged. Digging into the results from 115 bird surveys including 46...

A wetland transformed in 15 months – now to “just add water” …

Posted on 23 May 2019 at 15:47h in News, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve 3 Comments

It has brought much joy, and I have had such fun, during the busy months of transformation across the Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve (WSRR); the changes in the last fifteen months have to be seen to be believed! Positive environmental changes usually take a long...

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