This summer we will be hosting a public event at Ewens Ponds, near Port MacDonnell SA, for anyone wanting to learn more about Glenelg Spiny Crayfish and the uniqueness of Karst Rising Spring wetlands. We will talk more about our current project, which is using...
With a lot of anticipation, back in October Lisa and I met with students from Hamilton Parklands School and Good Shepherd College at Walker Swamp for a final field trip. Since the start of the year, we have been working with students to co-develop a...
It’s been almost 12 months since I assisted the Warrnambool City Council in delivering their Green Futures Now project – a new initiative aimed at providing young people an opportunity to lead their own project to address local climate change and sustainability issues (read more...
Back in August, we announced the commencement of a new project which is placing the endangered Glenelg Spiny Crayfish under the spotlight. In addition to collecting important population estimates in the South East of SA, we are keen to hear from anyone in the community...
At the end of July, Lachie and Tom met with an eager group of volunteers to complete the first round of data retrievals for our remote monitoring project in the Grampians. Field cameras and AudioMoth sound recorders had been deployed a month prior at various...
The karst rising-springs (KRS) around Port MacDonnell represent an important but threatened ecosystem supporting a diverse range of flora and fauna, including the nationally endangered Glenelg Spiny Freshwater Crayfish Euastacus bispinosus and the nationally vulnerable Variegated Pygmy Perch Nannoperca variegata. In South Australia, Glenelg Spiny...
The Victorian Mulloway Tagging program, funded by the Victorian Fisheries Authority through Recreational Fishing License Fees, has now been running for three and half years. The program has received incredible support from a large number of anglers and has provided valuable new knowledge on the...
During the past month, I’ve been working alongside Becky Nevin Berger (Youth Development Planner) and Lauren Schneider (Coordinator of the Natural Environment team) at the Warrnambool City Council (WCC) to deliver an exciting youth climate change project. Funded through DELWP, Green Futures Now involves working...
On Sunday a couple of weeks ago, Lachie and I met with prospective volunteers at Walker Swamp for an initial ‘meet and greet’ afternoon. The event was held as part of the new Grampians citizen science monitoring program, funded by the Victorian Government through the...
We are in the early stages of developing a volunteer-based wetland monitoring program to learn more about the ecological responses of two restored wetland systems in the southern Grampians. The Walker, Gooseneck, and Brady Swamp wetland complex, and Green Swamp, have undergone significant hydrological changes over...
