Good food, wonderful people and sharing great results! Recapping the Fleurieu Swamps Field Day in SA

Posted on 29 May 2023 at 15:10h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Square Waterhole Swamp 0 Comments

On Saturday the 20th of May, we gathered with a group of swamp people… no not the scary kind! Wonderful people keen to learn more about the restoration of one of our critically endangered wetland ecosystems, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps. The aim was to showcase the...

Your chance to learn about 7 years of peatland restoration work: Join us for a Fleurieu Swamps field day in May!

Posted on 30 Apr 2023 at 20:08h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps 0 Comments

Last time we took a group of people to tour Glenshera Swamp, it was 2017 and our hydrological restoration works on the Fleurieu Peninsula had only just begun. It didn’t take long for water to be returned to this unique ecosystem, via blocking old agricultural...

Fleurieu Swamps update: SwampFest 2018 a big success

Posted on 09 Jun 2018 at 00:57h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

Last weekend, NGT’s Ben Taylor and Tessa Roberts joined and enthusiastic bunch of volunteer tree-planters in Stipiturus Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula, SA. The popular community planting event, known as ‘SwampFest’, is held annually in the park to help re-vegetate historically cleared areas, and...

Fleurieu Swamps restoration update – the latest news from Glenshera Swamp

Posted on 25 Mar 2018 at 20:11h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration 1 Comment

Last week a small crew (Ben, Mark and Dale from NGT, along with Jason and Randall from DEWNR) headed back to Glenshera Swamp to make some minor adjustments and repairs to the structures we installed last year, both inside and outside Stipiturus CP. This also...

NGT article on Fleurieu Swamps in the latest edition of Wetlands Australia magazine

Posted on 14 Feb 2018 at 22:16h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, News, Wetland Restoration 0 Comments

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...

Wetland restoration update: the dry June is a distant memory for Fleurieu Swamps and Stipiturus CP

Posted on 20 Aug 2017 at 21:48h in Glenshera Swamp restoration, News, Wetland Restoration 0 Comments

Things were looking a little bit bleak for our wetlands back in June when much of southern Australia experienced near record low rainfall for the month; but fortunately, back to back wet months in July and August have really got things moving… So on recent...

Revisiting the Forgotten Fauna of Fleurieu Swamps near Mt Compass – do you have any old accounts or photos to share?

Posted on 15 Mar 2017 at 12:14h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, News 0 Comments

The December blog post about the forgotten fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula stimulated some great feedback from some of our newsletter subscribers with an interest in ecological change and the value of historical accounts for aiding our modern understanding of the environment. For example, Graham Carpenter kindly...

Fleurieu Swamps update: Keeping the conversation going in the Tookayerta Catchment

Posted on 10 Feb 2017 at 11:15h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, News 1 Comment

After a great community session in December to kick-start this project, NGT’s Lachlan Farrington will be hoping to catch up face-to-face with anyone who has an interest in the Tookayerta Catchment over the next few weeks, to keep the conversation going as we continue to...

Rare plants and restoration projects – A talk on Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps

Posted on 30 Oct 2023 at 11:24h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps 0 Comments

Ben, who is based in Adelaide South Australia, recently received an invitation from the Australian Plants Society to give a presentation on NGT’s Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp hydrological restoration projects. The talk was videoed by David Lloyd-Lindley of the Society and has been made publicly available....

Peatland restoration update: First glimpse of the latest works to rehydrate Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps

Posted on 30 Apr 2023 at 20:10h in News, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Square Waterhole Swamp 0 Comments

In late March and early April, I was back on the Fleurieu Peninsula, near Mt Compass (SA), overseeing the latest round of works to rehydrate a couple of the most important remnant peatlands in this part of the world: Square Waterhole Swamp and Glenshera Swamp....

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