Author: NRM South

Restoring a saltmarsh brings many benefits. Improved biodiversity and environmental values, healthier plant life, increased fish habitat and better resilience to climate change. Collectively, these benefits have a positive flow-on effect for the local community, from improving water quality to supporting local fisheries. Over the last three years, NRM South

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Melaleuca, located in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, is the last remaining breeding site for the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot. Buttongrass moorlands in the Melaleuca valley are important foraging habitat for these colourful migratory parrots, whose diet includes flowers, fruit and seeds from a wide range of native sedges,

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When graziers are looking to transition degraded pastures to more sustainable, diverse permanent pastures, forage crops (sown in one year or over several years) can be used to decrease weed burden and prepare soils. Conventionally, simple forage crop mixes have been used in pasture renewal, however increasing attention is being

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The Forty-spotted pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) is a rare Tasmanian bird that is now largely confined to Bruny Island, Maria Island and two small patches of forest on coastal mainland Tasmania. They rely on forests where their preferred food tree, white gums (Eucalyptus viminalis), are present to survive. As their former

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Natural Resource Management South are working to build back biodiversity at two internationally important wetlands on Tasmania’s east coast through improved monitoring and management practices, reducing threats to the wetland and restoring its natural flows. Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes are Ramsar-listed wetlands that are recognized for their rich diversity

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For the last two weeks, students at Taroona High School have had a front row seat to the construction of a new native oyster reef in the Derwent Estuary. This week, a group of students joined representatives from Natural Resource Management South to witness the final step in the reef

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