On Saturday, 23 participants joined naturalist and butterfly enthusiast Bryan Haywood from ForestrySA for a day of identifying local butterflies, particularly one threatened local species - the Silver Xenica (pronounced ‘Zen-i-ka’). Honan’s Native Forest Reserve was a beautiful setting, made even better as the sun shone...
The 2013 Up Close events kicked off on Sunday with 18 participants joining renowned local naturalist Neville Bonney on a driving/walking tour of how local Aborigines lived before and after European settlement near Carpenters Rocks on the lower South East SA coast. [caption id="attachment_2190" align="aligncenter" width="300"]...
Hi everyone, They're here! Nature Glenelg Trust along with Natural Resources SE and a host of partners bring you the Biodiversity ‘Up Close’ events - a series of FREE walks, talks and opportunities for you and the family to meet the experts and learn about the amazing...
Earlier tonight I made the journey into the Mount to give a talk on the history of the Piccaninnie Ponds wetlands, including the more recent story of the restoration of the Ponds and Pick Swamp. It was also great to hear about regional groundwater and...
On Wednesday next week (20th February), I'll be giving a talk at the Mt Gambier library about the restoration story of Piccaninnie Ponds and Pick Swamp - now an internationally recognised Ramsar site. Claire Harding will also be talking about the the importance of ground-water for...
Tomorrow (or today if you are reading this on Saturday) is World Wetlands Day 2013! To celebrate World Wetlands Day this year, Natural Resources - South East will be holding events later in February to mark the occasion, and NGT will be helping out...
Over the last few weeks, Becky has been on the ABC airwaves again. Most recently, on the 30th October, she spoke with Stan Thomson to update regional listeners on the Community Nursery Project. If you are interested in hearing that interview, you can listen to it...
Hi everyone, I just wanted to invite you all to have your say on what activities, topics and themes you would like to see take place, and suggest where in the region we might host them, as a part of the 2013 ‘Up close’ Biodiversity events...
Local ABC Radio in Mount Gambier got in touch with Becky last Monday to chat about the State NRM grant that NGT was recently awarded - to help bring community biodiversity events back to the South East in 2013. While it sounds like it is a long...
Further to my post from earlier in the week, please follow the link below to learn a little bit more about the State NRM Grant Awarded to NGT. Aug 17th 2012 Media Release - Biodiversity Up Close 2013 PS - Sorry to make you wait until 2013 for...
