For thousands of years First Nations people looked after Country - walking, talking, observing, gathering, harvesting, appreciating what was around them - while working in with what each season has on offer. Nature Glenelg Trust was treated this past month to a walk on Country...
A huge thankyou to the Mt Gambier community and students from Tenison Woods College for your efforts in helping Nature Glenelg Trust complete year one of a five year project aiming to revegetate areas between Bertha Street and White Avenue, along Mt Gambier's fabulous Rail...
Opportunistically, I dropped by Wadmore Park in mid-July during a visit to Adelaide from the Limestone Coast. The weather was kind and lately had been mostly sunny, so it struck me as a great chance to see what might be calling within the Fifth Creek...
The global population of Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) has received a further boost in management this past autumn with an ecological burn being carried out at the Blackford site. Avenue Cassinia is known to occur at just a handful of sites in our region, and...
[caption id="attachment_37002" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The wonderful grassy woodland of Wadmore Park.[/caption] Campbelltown Landcare Group have invited NGT to undertake a fauna survey of Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) this year. The project aims to collate records on mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates in Wadmore Park, through various...
It is with great enthusiasm that we can provide an update to this long term project! As you will read from our original post we believed the population was in dire need of help. Since the millennium drought of 2006-07 the Silver Xenica butterfly had not...
[caption id="attachment_36767" align="alignright" width="380"] Delma impar found beneath one of the roofing tiles[/caption] Tile grid surveys were set up at Long Point Restoration Reserve in the southern Grampians at Dunkeld back in 2012 - long before NGT became the custodian of this patch - as part...
Nature Glenelg Trust is proud to announce a cultural learning area at Mt Burr Swamp Restoration Reserve. A site overlooking the wetland is progressively being created to facilitate story-telling and learning about cultural heritage on Boandik country. The descendants of Annie Brice, a Boandik woman...
Before moving back to Adelaide, Andrew Lines worked and volunteered for NGT primarily at our Eaglehawk Waterhole Restoration Reserve from 2016-2019 where he undertook a range of activities including the preparation of an insect collection. Andy found several rare species at Eaglehawk Waterhole and the...
Invertebrates (or more specifically insects) are a widely studied group of animals throughout the globe, with more studies than you can 'poke a stick at'. These studies range from understanding more about individual species or populations in a given area through to particular guilds of...
