Eared worm-lizard (Aprasia aurita) PF Olsen, OneFortyOne (OFO) and Nature Glenelg Trust are joining forces to try and find new colonies of the endangered eared worm-lizard (Aprasia aurita) in the Limestone Coast region (pictured). With a five-year project funded from PF Olsen (and annual support through...
National Threatened Species Day is celebrated annually on the 7th September to commemorate the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) in Hobart in 1936. Although the origin of National Threatened Species Day is sad and gloomy, it is a good time to reflect on...
I must admit, I wasn’t too optimistic about the new tile grids established in 2016. The Swamp Gum Woodland vegetation type seemed quite promising, but summer surveys in 2017 and 2018 had only found skinks and brown snakes! But on a warm, overcast day in...
The Eared Worm-Lizard (Aprasia aurita) is an endangered legless lizard species endemic to south-eastern Australia. The species was only relatively recently identified in the South East, with annual surveys conducted since 2012. The surveys occur along the Reedy Creek Range between the months of September...
I kicked off my year as an NGT volunteer in February, after making the shift from Wagga Wagga to Mount Gambier in pursuit of environmental work. As a volunteer, I was going on weekly adventures collecting seeds for revegetation, bush-bashing through bracken to help install pitfall...
The annual monitoring event for the South Australian population of Eared Worm-lizards was recently undertaken at Furner forest, north of Millicent in the lower South East. The Eared Worm Lizard or Aprasia aurita, only discovered in South Australia in 1997, is a species of legless...
... well, in a virtual sense that is! During the week I was contacted by John O'Brien from Ireland, who uses his blog to draw attention to critically endangered species that are not so charismatic as the ones we usually hear about. It seems that our work on...
Cath has sent through this summary of her trip with community members to Eared Worm-lizard sites last weekend - with some great news to report ...
Last weekend the Biodiversity Up Close events focused on all things scaly. The events were kicked off by Dr Mark Hutchinson, Senior Researcher and Reptile Curator at the South Australian Museum, who presented at the well attended Millicent Field Naturalists monthly meeting. Mark provided a...
Our final survey round of the year uncovered another new population for South Australia! We were lucky enough to be joined by Mark Hutchinson, Senior Researcher, Herpetology at the South Australian Museum. We were hoping that, although late in the season, we would be able...
