After 17 months of being a busy mum on maternity leave, it's great to be starting back with NGT this month, easing back in for one day a week on Thursdays. I'm looking forward to catching up with the team and the huge amount of...
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to join the students from the Narrawong District Primary School again to have a chat about a unique local resident - the Freshwater Burrowing Crayfish! There are two species found throughout the south-west Victorian region: the Hairy...
On the 9th of September, Lachie Farrington and I were fortunate to attend the Portland and District Environmental Workshop, as part of the 'Kids Teaching Kids' program. A key aim of the program is to inspire future environmental leaders, and it was great to meet so many...
Earlier this month I travelled east to visit some coastal landscapes along the Shipwreck Coast. I was fortunate to meet with the Princetown Landcare Group, and scope some potential habitat areas of the estuary of the Gellibrand River. The Princetown Landcare Group are involved in...
With impressive winter rains, many of the often inconspicuous, and often dry wetlands of the region have come to life including our little swamp scrub restoration site at East St in Narrawong! As a lot of the area is now holding water, the plants and animals have...
It was great to meet a really interested crowd at our OBP Info Session in Koroit on Saturday 25th, with many local groups represented, such as the Warrnambool BirdLife branch, Portland Field Naturalists, and Killarney Coastcare. Rachel Pritchard (from DELWP) and I gave an overview of the...
[caption id="attachment_15062" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Community Volunteers busy at the East st Wetland Working Bee in Narrawong[/caption] A crowd of over 20 people joined NGT on a surprisingly sunny morning at Narrawong on Sunday the 5th of June, to give the East St wetland revegetation site some TLC. [caption id="attachment_15064"...
We hope you can join us for an informative chat about the OBPs (see flyer below with registration details) at Koroit on Saturday 25th June: Our presentation will cover an update on the OBP recovery program, the winter mainland counts - what's happening particularly in south-west Vic,...
Hello all, Very exciting news has reached us from the Bellarine Peninsula, with three OBP’s sighted by a volunteer at a remote location – the last sighting there being early in the 2014 season! Back in the far south-west of the state, there were no observations of...
Nature Glenelg Trust is holding a Working Bee on Sunday 5th June, starting 11am at a little wetland site at the end of East street in Narrawong. NGT has been working with the Narrawong District Primary School at this site since 2014 to restore the endangered...