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A big month for sharing NGT’s work with friends – old and new – across south-eastern Australia (and beyond)
The past few weeks have been a bit of a blur, as I have caught up with some fantastic people in a range of places all around south-eastern Australia, sharing NGT’s work with threatened species and ecological restoration. Here are some of the many highlights…...Photo of the month: Brolga continue to give the tick of approval to NGT’s wetland restoration projects
Much of what goes on in a wetland after we’ve undertaken remedial works to restore hydrology or manage other threats, goes on quietly without fuss. For fish, frogs, crayfish and many of the smaller water birds, you actually have to go looking closely to find...Busy-bee volunteers in Mount Gambier
Posted on 23 Aug 2022 at 19:11h
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The Mt Gambier volunteer crew have been busy recently with a number of activities. A team of eager volunteers joined me for a working bee at Mount Burr Swamp to remove tree guards and do a little hand weeding at the Creations Stories walk area...
More wetland restoration works at Glenshera Swamp complete, ahead of Swamp Fest 2022!
Posted on 14 Jun 2022 at 12:44h
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In what has been a huge few months of on-ground hydrological restoration works for NGT, after March works in Tassie and April works at Hutt Bay, our final autumn works update is for the part of Glenshera Swamp that is situated within Stipiturus Conservation Park....
A big autumn of wildlife encounters to remember! – from SA, Victoria and Tasmania
It feels like I’m on a bit of a roll with interesting wildlife encounters to report this year, which started with the story of the feathertail glider we shared back in February. So with autumn now behind us, let’s go through a bit of a...Insights from some of NGT’s wonderful volunteers to Celebrate National Volunteer Week 2022
NGT certainly couldn’t achieve all that we do without our fantastic volunteers! To mark National Volunteer Week in 2022, this week on social media we have been sharing stories from volunteers around our region – and we thought they were worth including here too. Read...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
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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...
Workshop series continues with Rockpool ramble and water bug fun at the coast!
Posted on 15 Dec 2021 at 19:56h
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Over the past month we have continued our Hutt Bay workshops and working bees project with a rockpool ramble at Cape Douglas and aquatic macro-invertebrates (aka water bugs) at Hutt Bay. A community rockpool ramble was held at Cape Douglas where we were joined by...
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
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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,...