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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
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,...