CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS CALENDAR – SPRING 2014

On this page you’ll find links to our quarterly environmental events calendar to help you find out about what’s happening in your region.  There are so many great groups and organisations hosting a range of activities throughout the South East of SA and Victoria’s South West, and we wanted to help spread the word about the opportunities on offer. Working bees, talks, outings, monitoring, training, field days, art exhibitions….you name it, it’s happening in our region.

Autumn 2015

The new Autumn cross-border community environmental calendar is now available!  Check out the images below for what going to be happening in your region as the weather heats up – whether you’re interested in open days, workshops, birding outings, working bees or dog’s breakfasts at the beach(!), there’s bound to be something for you!

Take a look at the latest calendar here 2015_Autumn-Environmental-Events (0.3Mb)

Does your group/organisation have an upcoming event over the SUMMER months (Dec, Jan, Feb)? Contact the NGT team by FRI 31 OCTOBER 2014 for your event to be included in the next calendar.

The 2014 Biodiversity ‘Up Close’ events

NGT along with a host of partners brings you the Biodiversity ‘Up Close’ events – a series of walks, talks and opportunities for you and the family to meet the experts and learn about the amazing things nature offers across the South East of South Australia and Victoria’s South West. Visit the Up Close page here for more details!

• Implementing a citizen science bird monitoring project in the Grampians/Gariwerd National Park 29/04/2024
  Participants in the first Bird Identification and Monitoring Course in Halls Gap in April 2021 Four years after the initial work to establish an ongoing citizen scientist monitoring program in the Grampians / Gariwerd National Park, and train forty bird observers, the eighth biannual Great Gariwerd Bird Survey (GGBS) weekend has just been completed by the ...
• The Orange-bellied Parrot has landed! …on the mainland for their wintering season 29/04/2024
  In early April, the first Orange-bellied Parrot (OBP) migrants were sighted on the mainland from their summer breeding ground at Melaleuca, Tasmania. It’s time to get out and start looking for these critically endangered birds! Flock of Orange-bellied Parrots. Photo by Chris Tzaros Every year volunteers are encouraged to search for OBP’s in saltmarsh along the coast ...
• Bird monitoring based on citizen science is coming to the Limestone Coast 29/04/2024
  A few weeks ago, NGT was given the fantastic news that our application to the SA Government for an Environmental Citizen Science Large Grant had been successful (you can see the full list of recipients here). This funding will allow us to kick off a series of bird monitoring courses later this year, for keen ...
• NGT Volunteer Profile – Carole Ryan 29/04/2024
  In the lead-up to Volunteer Week in May, we will be featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month’s newsletter. This month we have the second installment: meet Carole Ryan of the University of the Third Age, a gardener, child sponsor, passionate supporter of the conservation of nature and long-term NGT nursery volunteer! Hi, I’m ...
• Tasmanian Field Day recap – sharing knowledge and opportunities for wetland and saltmarsh restoration at Burdens Marsh 29/04/2024
  NGT, in partnership with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day on Wednesday 3rd April 2024 at Burdens Marsh – a recent and important addition to TLC’s Sloping Main Reserve, on the Tasman Peninsula, south-eastern Tasmania. The field day provided an opportunity for locals and other interested stakeholders to share in the knowledge of ...
• Lagoon of Islands: another positive wetland restoration story from Tasmania 29/04/2024
  NGT’s wetland restoration work in Tasmania over the past few years has been capably led by our small but passionate team of Hobart-based part-time staff, Bec Sheldon and Justine Latton. You can read about Bec and Justine’s observations from their recent visit to Moulting Lagoon by following this link. NGT’s Tassie-based staff: Bec Sheldon and Justine ...
• Let’s check on saltmarsh recovery near Moulting Lagoon, Tasmania 29/04/2024
  NGT’s Hobart-based wetland crew, Bec and Justine, undertook a trip to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tassie recently (in early April 2024), to download the data from our long-term water level and salinity loggers. This was a few days after Mark also managed to visit the site, by squeezing in a quick visit ...
• A ‘sister-site’ of sorts to Mt Vandyke – the Booderee National Park eastern quoll experiment begins… again! 29/04/2024
  Further to our recent Eastern Quoll Hub update in SW Victoria, it was great to see the news of quolls being released once again into Booderee National Park, situated within the Jervis Bay Territory (which is a small coastal territory associated with the ACT, on the NSW south coast). Although the release of Eastern Quolls ...
• Werrikoo Heathlands in the spotlight 29/04/2024
  Heathland is one of the oldest recognised ecosystems in the world and, in southern and western Victoria, is found on flat to gently undulating country. Typically, this ecosystem has nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy soils with vegetation comprised of a dense layer of low growing small-leafed shrubs, over sedges, lilies, prostrate shrubs and herbs. Occasionally small, spreading ...
• Silver Xenica butterflies, a snake and a frog – predator-prey interaction at Honan Native Forest Reserve 29/04/2024
  Surveys for the Silver Xenica butterfly have commenced once again this autumn with the aim of confirming if two translocation sites near Glencoe (north-west of Mount Gambier in SA) still contain the butterflies. The surveys involve walking at a slow pace along pre-determined transects to count flying individuals and to identify their sex, if possible. ...

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