In the most recent update to this story (Part 5), we explored some recently uncovered 1970s correspondence in the archives between the Victorian Place Names Committee (PNC) and regionally-based local and state government bodies, that shed some light on how the lake became officially registered by the...
“In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations… [declared] 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science”. While...
Our region is home to a very special critically endangered animal, one which you may not be familiar with – the Southern Bent-wing Bat. This small insect-eating bat roosts in caves all around the South East and western Victoria. [caption id="attachment_28375" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Southern Bent-wing Bat...
In 2000, Chris Wilson and I set up the Butterfly Walk in the Penambol Conservation Park with the last section of the walk finishing along the track between the park and Warreanga Native Forest Reserve. For 12 years I walked this tracked every week for...
To celebrate World Wetlands Day 2018, on the 2nd of February the Australian Government released the latest edition of Wetlands Australia. This time around, the magazine features an article on the restoration work NGT has commenced in the Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula, in partnership with DEWNR,...
Welcome back to the NGT Blogs and E-mail Newsletter for the New Year! It is hard to believe but a couple of days ago, the 16th of January, marked six years since we launched NGT - and hasn't the time flown by? 2018 - our seventh year...
More than 450 people braved the hot and windy conditions to become citizen scientists during The Great Goolwa Cockle Challenge on Saturday. The mission was to find as many of the 2500 uniquely tagged cockles that were released prior to the event. In a great result,...
Over the past few weeks, Sheryl, Nicole and I have been busy running our ‘Fishing for the Future’ clinics, which form part of the Coastal Connections School Holidays program. The fishing clinics are funded through the Recreational Fishing Grants program by the South Australian Government...
Although it has been a little while since we talked about our mainland forgotten fauna on the blogs, a valuable discussion last week with a couple of staff at the Glenelg Hopkins CMA has prompted me to kick this discussion off again. After our meeting,...
We first heard about Tristan and 1900 Footprints a couple of months ago when he set out on his journey from Adelaide to Hobart - on foot. He named this undertaking "1900 Footprints" as he would be covering 1900 kilometres with the aim of raising...
