If you're about to give your garden a 'spring clean' and have a few gaps to fill, we may be able to help you fill them. Our Community Nursery has a small amount of excess tube stock available for purchase. Some of the species available are...
Last month, on June the 28th, the last of our native orchids were planted out on to private property near Robe, with 41 Little Dip Spider-orchids (Caladenia richardsiorum) planted in-between rain showers for the Restoring the Under-represented Ecological Communities project. Last year NGT planted nearly 900 purpose...
Last week Jess joined four Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare volunteers on a trip to Phillip Island Nature Park to undertake Little Penguin handling and microchip training. During the training the group gained valuable skills in handling, weighing and measuring Little Penguins, and also learnt and practiced...
Oddball, a family movie, tells the quirky story of how Swampy Marsh convinces the local council to allow his Maremma Sheepdog, Oddball, to protect a local colony of Little Penguins from foxes and cats. It might sound a little far-fetched, but as many of you...
Last Thursday’s arrival count marked the end of the Middle Island Little Penguin breeding season and arrival counts. Nineteen Little Penguins were counted, continuing the downward trend of the last few arrival count numbers and indicating the start of the annual moult. This was confirmed...
Since October, the Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare Group and community volunteers have been engaged in annual monitoring of the Little Penguin. Every fortnight, a small group of volunteers head over to Middle Island, Warrnambool, and counts the penguins as they return from a day’s fishing. During the...
Who’s keen to explore their local intertidal reef? The local South East Reef Watchers are! You can now see what the Robe, Beachport and Port MacDonnell Reef Watch groups are up to on the Reef Watch in the South East page. Each Reef Watch group collects information...
Nature Glenelg Trust is excited to be working with the Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare Group again this year to co-ordinate the Middle Island Little Penguin monitoring program. For more information or if you’d like to get involved you can view the project page or contact Jess...