When you think of pre-European vegetation in south-east SA, what do you see?An old Red Gum standing guard over a waterhole, a carpet of flowers and sedges spreading from its feet? Brown Stringybarks twisting toward the sky from heathy sandhills? Or a dense landscape of...
Hancocks Victorian Plantations (HVP) recently engaged NGT to plan and start work on a multi-year revegetation project at one of their properties in far South West Victoria. The 75 hectare restoration site holds a former airstrip and limestone quarry, and lies about 20 km south...
Down in the South East of SA, we’re all about the limestone. As well as being the key ingredient in many of our landforms and resulting in spectacular karst formations, its presence at varying depths and densities drives the composition of much of the native...
Getting to sleep at night wasn't a problem for our bushcare crew members this autumn and early winter. A busy schedule and an overdose of fresh air and hard work had each of our crew sleeping like a log most nights! A couple of these...
This photo of the month was taken near Newdegate Pass in Mount Field National Park, which we were lucky to visit while on a recent hiking trip to Tasmania. Cushion plants occur in alpine areas across the world. Rather than one large plant, they’re a community...
In Spring 2019, NGT’s bushcare crew was involved in protecting some of south-west Victoria’s native grasslands, carrying out careful weed control work in important roadside grassland reserves near Dunkeld. With temperate native grasslands being mostly cleared or degraded by past agricultural development, most remnants in the...
Last Saturday, the Bittern Recovery Project and NGT ran a field survey for Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) in Long Swamp, near Nelson in south-west Victoria. Since NGT’s hydrological restoration work at Nobles Rocks, the wetland has seen an increase in suitable habitat for the nationally-endangered...
It’s been a long time coming ...
[caption id="attachment_34329" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Australasian Bittern near Nobles Rocks[/caption] This curious and nationally endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) was snapped on our wildlife camera during NGT’s Long Swamp restoration works near Nobles Rocks. This project was funded with the support of the Victorian Government, and was...
NGT staff have been busy with a range of bushcare projects this autumn and winter. In one of these, the Glenelg Hopkins CMA called us in to work with Parks Victoria on woody weed removal at a remote spot in the Discovery Bay dune system. The...
