Our aquatic ecology team is always getting amazing things done. Their work is making a big difference in the conservation of threatened native fish species. Our senior Aquatic Ecologist Dr Sylvia Zukowski recently attended a couple of symposiums in Adelaide to spread the word about...
Students enjoyed an up close and personal fishy experience on Sustainability Day at Goolwa Secondary College this month. The wetlands at the school have been transformed into lovely threatened fish surrogate habitats with aquatic and edge vegetation planted, and wood and rocks placed into the...
Nature Glenelg Trust and our partners, the Barkandji River Rangers, recently assisted in the recovery of a valuable population of Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeon. The endangered native fish are in Bingera Creek, located in far-west NSW. The population was established there in June 2024 when fish...
During our recent Mount Lofty Ranges fish sampling, aquatic ecologists Matt and Cory sampled a lone Short-finned Eel (Anguilla australis) in the Inman River, Inman Valley SA. This species of eel has not been sampled in this river in the past, so it is exciting...
The Mount Lofty Ranges fish surveys are in full swing. NGT surveys over 160 sites throughout the Mount Lofty Ranges annually in autumn. These surveys provide critical information that feeds into Water Action Plans for local Landscape Boards and guides future conservation and management actions....
River Blackfish in the Mount Lofty Ranges have experienced significant declines in number and distribution, and are fully protected in South Australia. Their declines are attributed to alien fish species, habitat modification, and less water at their sites. Recently, some River Blackfish sites in the...
With funding support from the Australian Government’s Saving Native Species Program, Nature Glenelg Trust (NGT) and Millewa Pumping have successfully reintroduced the critically endangered Murray Hardyhead to a managed wetland in South Australia’s Riverland. The Murray Hardyhead is one of Australia’s most threatened native fish,...
The NGT aquatic team recently surveyed some private wetland ponds on the Fleurieu Peninsula. The ponds hadn't been sampled for over 10 years when Nick Whiterod and Michael Hammer found populations of Southern Pygmy Perch here in 2014. This small native freshwater fish is endangered...
Lauren and the crew, along with SA National Parks staff have recently been surveying fish in the unique spring-fed wetlands of Ewens Ponds, Piccaninnie Ponds and Pick Swamp on the Limestone Coast in the South East of South Australia. This kind of ecosystem - also...
The Galaxiids are a defining feature of Australia's freshwater fish fauna, particularly across the southern states. With almost 40 different species (and still counting), ranging from the "very" common jollytail (Galaxias maculatus) through to the extremely rare Yalmy galaxias. They range across coastal rivers, all...
