Secrets of a suburban oasis – Oaklands Wetland

Posted on 30 Oct 2023 at 11:21h in News, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon, Urban wetland restoration 0 Comments

In early October, NGT kicked off our Grand Tour of Ecological Restoration, with Day 1 starting at Oaklands Wetland in Adelaide’s inner southern suburbs. Here NGT has been working with the City of Marion to breed threatened fish. The Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon has been thriving...

Aliens and muddy water be gone! Making way for threatened fish at Oaklands Wetland

Posted on 28 May 2021 at 22:15h in News, Fish conservation, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon 1 Comment

There has been a hive of activity at Oaklands Wetland (south of Adelaide, SA) over the past month with introduced fish management in full swing. The ten ponds of the wetland system were drained down and then further pumped out in early April by the...

Go Wild in Nature – World Environment Day at Adelaide Wetland

Posted on 27 May 2024 at 16:25h in News, Environmental Education, Events, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon 0 Comments

On Monday 22 April, Oaklands Wetlands in Adelaide was teeming with members of the community, excited children, native fish, turtles, yabbies and water bugs! The ‘Go Wild in Nature’ event was organised by The City of Marion. Nature Glenelg Trust’s Senior Ecologist Dr Sylvia Zukowski...

Native fish returned to Adelaide’s River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari after 100 years

Posted on 28 Nov 2023 at 13:16h in News, Fish conservation, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon 0 Comments

On a sunny morning in November, an excited group gathered by the edge of the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari, in Adelaide’s Western suburbs. NGT’s Dr Sylvia Zukowski explained the significance of this event, with several buckets of critically endangered Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeons at the...

Reflecting on NGT’s ‘Grand Tour’ and an epic month of sharing stories of ecological restoration success

Posted on 30 Oct 2023 at 11:22h in News, Conferences, Eaglehawk Waterhole Habitat Restoration Reserve, Environmental Education, Events, Fish conservation, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Long Swamp Restoration, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Mount Vandyke Restoration Reserve, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve 0 Comments

As you may have gathered from some of the other articles this month, the last four weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind, personally taking me from north to south, right across this vast continent. As well as attending the SER2023 conference in Darwin,...

NGT Out and About in October – Photos from the Field

Posted on 30 Oct 2023 at 11:19h in News, Photo of the Month 0 Comments

During our recent Walker Swamp Celebration event (also the last stop of NGT’s Nature Festival Grand Tour of Ecological Restoration) the group got to explore the newly acquired land addition at Walker Swamp. The area of Manna Gums is spectacular, and now under our permanent...

Time’s up for alien fish in suburban Adelaide

Posted on 30 Apr 2023 at 20:11h in News, Fish conservation, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon 0 Comments

Oaklands Wetlands, in the south-western suburbs of Adelaide, has been an important breeding habitat for some threatened native fish since late 2021. Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon, which are critically endangered, were introduced here after many years of preparation (see our previous post). These colourful little fish...

Signed, sealed and delivered – critically endangered fish returned to their homes

Posted on 27 Feb 2023 at 14:54h in News, Fish, Fish conservation, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon 0 Comments

Meet the southern purple spotted gudgeon, a little native fish that is critically endangered in Victoria, and has been missing in action from much of the state. In fact they were thought to be regionally extinct until some were found in a lake that was...

A century later, Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon are back in Adelaide!

Posted on 18 May 2022 at 12:59h in News, Fish conservation, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon 0 Comments

After not being seen in Adelaide wetlands for 100 years, critically endangered Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon were released into Oaklands Wetland late last year. Oaklands Wetland underwent five years of water drawdown and alien fish elimination to make it suitable for this release (see previous post...

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