Author: Mark Bachmann

Posted at 06 Aug 2016 at 19:37h in Habitat Restoration Fund, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, News, Wetland Restoration by
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If you haven’t heard of or seen Pick Swamp (a 230 hectare property next to Piccaninnie Ponds, now also a reserve), then you haven’t witnessed the incredible recovery potential of drained wetlands - but the results (see below) speak for themselves. Finally, after 10 years, it’s time to...

Posted at 06 Aug 2016 at 19:35h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by
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We've now reached a point in this series where the stories told so far intertwine. The undeniable reality is that, without realising it, the early settlers had paved the way for the establishment and explosion of the fox population – by deliberately persecuting, suppressing and, successfully eradicating from many districts, the only...

Posted at 23 Jul 2016 at 03:38h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by
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Not long after 1893, when the stories shared in Part 1 of this series were recorded, the fox became seriously entrenched in the region and the environment started to undergo a significant transformation. But first, what can the records tell us about this period, and how that transformation...

Posted at 28 Jun 2016 at 11:47h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by
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A few recent events and discussions have got me thinking about how little today we think about what our ground-dwelling mammalian forest fauna was really like across south-eastern Australia; both before the arrival of Europeans (including, long before that, dingoes arriving in Australia), and then after...

Posted at 11 Jun 2016 at 18:40h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Species of the month by
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Without much fuss or fanfare, several weeks ago six species were added to the 'Vulnerable' category under our national environment legislation - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. One of those species, the mainland sub-species of Swamp Antechinus (Antechinus minimus maritimus), occurs across a large stretch of NGT's focal...