A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving a talk to the Warrnambool Field Naturalists Club. They were interested in hearing about Nature Glenelg Trust after a reference by a previous speaker, some weeks beforehand. When you consider that the club was...
With Autumn now upon us we are busy working on some big and exciting restoration projects before the season breaks and this pretty significant dry spell comes (hopefully) to an end. Such has been the level of activity for the first quarter of the year...
On Saturday the 2nd of February I had the pleasure of joining the Friends of Yatmerone Wildlife Reserve for a "World Wetlands Day" celebration. World Wetlands Day marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention), all the...
Back in December I kicked off the annual monitoring of the "wetland restoration on private land" sites, visiting one at Coleraine where we installed a regulator last year. I'm pleased to report that this wetland was still full and a large number of birds are...
Last Saturday I spent a day out with members of the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club. It was one of this Novembers typically damp and cold days but it was a great day to be out in the swamps and a great opportunity to share our...
Winter really did deliver a short but sharp burst for the south western corner of Victoria and our delivery of early works for the Wetland Restoration Project enabled us to capitalise on these conditions. A couple of weeks ago I dropped in to our first case study site...
I've always been a bit of a weather buff so the recent rainfall we've experienced in south-western Victoria has been interesting to say the least. In the middle of June we constructed a sandbag weir at Cashmore, just to the west of Portland. After a...
In the middle of October I was involved in a workshop being run by ABC Open. ABC Open is a fantastic government initiative which encourages regional Australians to share their stories via writing, photos, videos and sounds. I took part in the Day in a Life...
Last Wednesday I attended the Brolga Recovery Group Meeting in Hamilton. We were hosted by the Southern Grampians Shire Council at the Hamilton Institute of Rural Learning. After the group meeting, I presented a quick summary of the Wetland Restoration on Private Land project and...
