Author: Bryan Haywood

Posted at 06 Dec 2015 at 12:03h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Species of the month, Swamp Gum Woodlands by
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Hackett Hill and Honan Native Forest Reserves are a carpet of colour at the moment in the Swamp Gum grassy and herb rich woodland areas.  Native daisies of various species, Vanilla and Fringe lilies, Scurf Pea and native mints are blooming nicely at the moment. The Dusky...

Posted at 06 Dec 2015 at 12:01h in News, Photo of the Month, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Swamp Gum Woodlands by
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The southern water skink (Eulamprus tympanum) is a medium-sized skink species found in New South Wales, Victoria (incl. Bass Strait islands) and South Australia. Typically, they have three colour bands along their body of olive-brown on top with dark flecks, a black band along its flanks...

Posted at 29 Oct 2015 at 17:47h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Species of the month, Swamp Gum Woodlands by
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Tea-tree Fire-tail Cicada The Tea-tree Fire-tail cicada has recently emerged in the lower south east of South Australia. It is a very high pitched and soft calling species that prefers Swamp Gum woodlands in the moist parts of the region especially around Glencoe and Port MacDonnell. [caption...

Posted at 14 Aug 2015 at 03:11h in Community Nursery Project, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Threatened Orchid translocation, Threatened Orchids by
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[caption id="attachment_12530" align="alignright" width="300"] Elegant Spider-orchid (Bryan Haywood)[/caption] Eleven days of intricate and rewarding field work has recently come to an end after four nationally threatened terrestrial orchid species were successfully translocated into 8 sites throughout the South East through the Restoring the Under-represented Ecological Communities...

Posted at 14 Aug 2015 at 03:07h in 20 Million Trees, Eaglehawk Waterhole Habitat Restoration Reserve, National Landcare Programme, News by
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Nature Glenelg Trust has recently planted its first area towards achieving the milestone of restoring 70 hectares of the Eaglehawk Waterhole property. A range of understorey species (~ 900 individual plants) have been planted to boost the restoration process after livestock were removed back in...

Posted at 07 Aug 2015 at 16:15h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Swamp Gum Woodlands by
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Swamp Gum woodland sites received a further boost recently with planting of understorey species in three lower South East sites. [caption id="attachment_12427" align="alignleft" width="300"] Swamp Gum grassy woodland in Honan Native Forest Reserve[/caption] Rare species were planted out to create new colonies in Honan and Warreanga Native...

Posted at 27 Jun 2015 at 11:35h in Media, Piccaninnie Ponds, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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The first of many working bees occurred within the Ramsar-listed Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park recently, whereby the Mt Gambier Friends of Parks group helped to create additional habitat through our Restoring Under-represented Ecological Communities project. This region-wide project (being run by Nature Glenelg Trust on...

Posted at 09 Feb 2015 at 19:45h in Community Nursery Project, Eaglehawk Waterhole Habitat Restoration Reserve, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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January 15-17th, 2015 A party of nine made the trek to Eaglehawk Waterhole for a two night working bee campout. On the first night while the weather was calm the crew went out spotlighting for rabbits (out on the sandy hills) throughout the property. Over 25 were seen out...

Posted at 06 Nov 2014 at 22:46h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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[caption id="attachment_8408" align="alignright" width="300"] The mound monitoring team at Gum Lagoon[/caption] I have just returned from a few days out with Vicki Natt monitoring malleefowl mounds as part of the annual grid monitoring program. This activity is considered a key component of the South East Regional...