If you’re out and about in damp woodlands around this time of year, you may run into a mysterious structure on the ground that looks a bit like a gherkin standing straight up in the leaf litter. Another of the many strange cousins in the...
At the beginning of March, a hardy bunch of NGT staff loaded the utes with trapping equipment, spades and picks, eskies and unheard of quantities of oats and peanut butter (for bait, of course!) and made our way up to the Wimmera to conduct a...
Steve Bourne snapped this long-neck turtle emerging from its slumber as Bool Lagoon awakes, receiving flows from Mosquito Creek once again. Great photo Steve - and thanks for sharing it with us! [caption id="attachment_15596" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Long-neck turtle at Bool Lagoon[/caption]...
[caption id="attachment_15374" align="alignright" width="300"] Swamp daisy (Alittia cardiocarpa) at Mortlake Common[/caption] If you’ve spent any time on the highways recently, you may have been happy to notice that many of the wetlands that have been dry over the past couple of years have been receiving good...
They're a few of the fascinating things to be found at our Maam Water Reserve project site, just out of Warrnambool! [caption id="attachment_15334" align="alignright" width="420"] Dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella pusillla) (image: M. Hammer)[/caption] Things have been steadily ticking along over the last few months at this small wetland reserve...
Have a look at one of the strangest fungi you'll see...
This yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes) scurried down a tree in Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park before freezing when it spotted me. You can see previous photos of the week here....
Autumn seems to be on its way and luckily for us there's lots of activities planned for the SE SA/ SW Vic region over the next few months. A wide range of friends groups, NGOs, environment departments and threatened species recovery teams have planned a...
If you're looking for some warm weather activities where you can learn more about the amazing environment around us, be sure to check out the current edition of the environmental events calendar! As always, there's plenty happening throughout South East SA and South West Victoria. The...
Well, the spring alarm clock has gone off, and many of our native grassland flora species are waking up to the warmer weather. With that happy thought in mind, a group of us hopped on board for a bus tour of grasslands in the Mortlake...
