As the Mount Burr Swamp campaign approaches its finale, Nature Glenelg Trust and 21 artists from both sides of the South Australian / Victorian border have teamed up to present an art exhibition, CrossBorder: the Significance of Wetlands. This one night only event highlights the...
Last week I took the opportunity to check back in on some of the restoration sites we have been working on around the southern Grampians, and I have some good news! Let's start the journey a bit further east, and up the Bunnugal drain, to one...
Over the past couple of years we've been working with Aringa North owner and manager, Hoges. A beautiful property, situated about 10 km north of Port Fairy, Aringa North has a large number of wetlands which provide habitat for brolga, swans, frogs and an...
The signs of two dry years are still lingering but one can't help but feel optimistic that we might have turned a corner. With Warrnambool falling just 0.5mm short of achieving its highest May rainfall on record, and similar trends occurring to the north and west,...
Late Autumn is always a time of anticipation and feelings of contradiction in the world of wetland restoration. Often we are scrambling to finish works before the rain arrives, wishing for a good rainy season but secretly hoping it can hold off just one more...
Over the past 12 months we have been working with Port Fairy Consolidated School and environmental educator Tracey Gray to develop education resources to share knowledge about our cryptic burrowing crayfish. Depending on where you are in south west Victoria you're likely to come across either...
The financial year has certainly rounded out with a bang for getting around and talking to people about what we've been up to at NGT. Last week I was invited to talk at a Victorian Volcanic Plains Research and Development Forum, hosted by Corangamite CMA...
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...
