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Lagoon of Islands: another positive wetland restoration story from Tasmania
NGT’s wetland restoration work in Tasmania over the past few years has been capably led by our small but passionate team of Hobart-based part-time staff, Bec Sheldon and Justine Latton. You can read about Bec and Justine’s observations from their recent visit to Moulting Lagoon...NGT Volunteer Profile – Deb Thompson
As a non-profit organisation, volunteers are an integral part of the work we do at here at NGT. Our volunteers do vital conservation work, like sorting seeds and growing seedlings in the nursery, helping to restore degraded ecosystems through planting and weed control, assisting with...Record breaking early winter rainfall in South East South Australia
It has been a pretty wet year for those of us based in south-east South Australia and south-west Victoria. What has been surprising, in comparison to recent history, is the timing of this wet period. We are more used to seeing things start to wet...NGT out and about in July – Photos from the field
It’s planting season! NGT’s Mount Gambier field crew have been busy planting natives at Timberlands, Penola. The team have been adding habitat complexity with a range of locally occurring shrub and tree species: NGT’s Scott Huntley and Simeon Pocha have been out doing fish surveys,...‘Recharge Farm’ Project update: Let’s take a video tour of the Mount Burr Swamp Stage II Restoration area!
Posted on 27 Jun 2023 at 20:18h
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Last month, NGT highlighted the exciting expansion of Mount Burr Swamp Restoration Reserve with our Stage II area. Over the coming months we hope to show our supporters the amazing work going on to restore wetlands in this area and the broader landscape out at...
It’s official… we’ve expanded NGT’s Mt Burr Swamp Restoration Reserve!
Posted on 29 May 2023 at 22:07h
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If you cast your mind way back to 2016, NGT launched our first major public land purchase fundraiser, as we worked together with our partners and supporters to create the Mt Burr Swamp Restoration Reserve in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. The original...
Reflecting on 11 years of NGT’s work to restore wetlands
As you may have read in this article, NGT is kicking-off an exciting new phase of wetland restoration action where we will be able to continue our work with farmers, foresters, Traditional Owners and any other landholders across the rural landscape who now find themselves...Ok boomer! Endangered bitterns are ‘booming’ in western Vic
Posted on 25 Jan 2023 at 13:02h
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Recent wet conditions over spring and summer have resulted in a bumper year for records of the nationally endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus), or ‘boomer’, known for its deep booming call. In fact, for the first time since restoration, a Bittern was detected in early...