Thanks to the generous support of about 50 people and/or groups that have donated so far to the Mount Burr Swamp fundraiser, we have reached $22,000 in funding - which is a great achievement! - but we still have a long way to go. If at this...
The demise of many of the medium sized ('critical weight range') small mammals across south-eastern Australia that followed the concurrent suppression or eradication of dingoes and the arrival of foxes - combined of course with the clearance, development and intensive grazing of land - was for the most part swift and...
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 has been a long-time coming, but finally over much of the region people are saying "this is what a wet year looks like", or "it reminds me of the 80s or early 90s". My first visit to the region was in 1996 and there was...
I recently visited Fairview Conservation Park (in the mid south east, north of Lucindale) and noted water, water everywhere. "Not a surprise", I hear you say, but it was nice to see the Melaleucas with water lapping at their feet, in a lagoon I’d never...
Thanks to our friends at ABC South East Radio, the Mt Burr Swamp project has been receiving some fantastic attention over the airwaves. For more information, have a listen to one of the segments below! In the first session, I spoke to mornings presenter Selina Green to...
Come out to help survey for the migratory Latham’s Snipe on September 17th in sites previously known for Snipe in the South East. Notification of this survey has been prompted through The Latham’s Snipe Project (Dr Birgita Hansen) where it was started by a group of...
One week into the fundraising campaign to bring back Mt Burr Swamp and we are off to a great start, but still have a long way to go. I am sure the obvious question everyone is wondering is: "so how is the tally looking?" With our live counter...
Last week I took the opportunity to check back in on some of the restoration sites we have been working on around the southern Grampians, and I have some good news! Let's start the journey a bit further east, and up the Bunnugal drain, to one...
First up in our review of threatened species that will benefit from the restoration project at Mt Burr Swamp, is the Australasian Bittern. For anyone who hasn't heard of "Robbie the Bittern" - Robbie is the legendary wetland bird who last year put both the previously mysterious Australasian...
