NGT Out and About – Photos from the field in March

Posted at 27 Mar 2024 at 21:19h in News, Photo of the Month by
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NGT’s Senior Wetland Ecologist Ayesha Burdett shared photos from some wetland restoration events in Victoria this month. She and Lisa McIntyre (NGT Partnerships and Community Coordinator) attended a Farm Dam Field Day organised by Panyyabyr Landcare Group to talk about water quality and catchment health, and had a day out with Monivae Year 7 students. Ayesha also discussed wetland restoration projects with the Lismore Land Protection Group (below right).

NGT’s Ayesha and Lisa talk water quality and catchment health at a Panyyabyr Landcare Group Farm Dam Field Day (photo by Lisa McIntyre). 
Ayesha talking wetland restoration projects with Lismore Land Protection Group (photo by Sarah McMaster)

Would you believe that the below photos were taken in the parklands surrounding the centre of the city of Adelaide? The Pakapakanthi (Victoria Park; below right) wetlands, created in 2022 primarily for flood mitigation is now a thriving wetland habitat and looking very impressive at the moment.

A Monarch butterfly, at a section of the Karrawirra Parri (River Torrens) near the centre of Adelaide.
Ben surveying a natural looking section of the Karrawirra Parri (River Torrens) downstream of the Torrens Lake Weir.
Artificial wetlands opened in May 2022 in Adelaide’s Pakapakanthi (Victoria Park).
Tessa Roberts