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Encouraging start for Mt Gambier Rail Trail project
The Mt Gambier Rail Trail revegetation project has achieved an encouraging start (despite impacts of COVID-19) with Year One plantings, late spring watering and weed control/maintenance completed. By next spring we should begin to see some of the colours, shapes and textures of the diverse...Mt Gambier Rail Trail year one revegetation complete
A huge thankyou to the Mt Gambier community and students from Tenison Woods College for your efforts in helping Nature Glenelg Trust complete year one of a five year project aiming to revegetate areas between Bertha Street and White Avenue, along Mt Gambier’s fabulous Rail...Sowing the seeds for the Mount Gambier Rail Trail project
The Mount Gambier Rail Trail project is in full swing, with the NGT nursery busy sowing over 30 different plant species for the ‘Year 1’ site. The plants are growing nicely at the moment with final sowing occurring as we speak. We will aim to...A section of the new Mount Gambier Rail Trail is ready to be transformed…
Have you heard? There is a beautification project brewing for the Rail Trail in Mount Gambier between Bertha Street and White Avenue! Nature Glenelg Trust is partnering with Tenison Woods College, Mount Gambier City Council and the Limestone Coast Rail Trail Sub-committee, and we are...NGT Volunteer Profile – Lynn Gilbert
National Volunteer Week in 2024 is May 20-24th. Over the past few months we have been featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month’s newsletter. This month we have the third installment where we meet Suzy Meyers and Lynn Gilbert. Here are some words...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...Community celebrates Kelly Swamp, the hidden gem on the doorstep of Warrnambool in western Victoria
At Warrnambool’s back door, in South West Victoria, lies Kelly Swamp. When I say ‘back door’, I’m talking 5 mins drive, or 15 mins by bike from the CBD. It’s a seemingly wild, open space and somewhere that I have been slowly discovering and exploring...Join us! Upcoming community planting day at the iconic Blue Lake
If you know Mount Gambier, you’ll know we have a famous Blue Lake! The lake, which is situated in a volcanic crater, changes colour to a brilliant royal blue in the warmer months and is a major tourist attraction of our city. The lake is...Partnering with foresters, councils and sport clubs – NGT’s 2021 revegetation roll-out is nearly done!
Posted on 31 Aug 2021 at 16:09h
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The NGT planting crew has been busy with a range of revegetation projects through the winter. We began July with a small sea of native seedlings in the NGT nursery, and bit by bit they’ve gone out to new homes at restoration sites across the...