Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps

Posted at 28 Feb 2022 at 09:06h in News, Aldinga Washpool, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Green Swamp Restoration Reserve, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Mount Vandyke Restoration Reserve, Southern Bell Frog, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve by
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Friends and supporters will be pleased to hear planning for NGT's 10th anniversary events is well underway. We aim to provide a range of options across Victoria and South Australia, showcasing the variety of wonderful sites, methods, talented staff, collaborations, and stories that make up the...

Posted at 28 Feb 2022 at 08:35h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Wetland Restoration by
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Regular readers will recall, from a previous blog, a project at Yundi Nature Conservancy, where NGT is helping landholder and conservationist John Fargher restore an area of the critically endangered Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp ecological community. The property includes some intact areas of Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp,...

Posted at 23 Nov 2021 at 10:10h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Hutt Bay Wetland, Karst Springs, Long Swamp Restoration, Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Piccaninnie Ponds, Regional Recharge Farms, Square Waterhole Swamp, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration by
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Over the years at NGT we've worked on wetland restoration investigations and implemented projects at wide range of wetland types. If you have been following these stories for some time, you will have seen how valuable digital elevation data (a Digital Elevation Model or DEM,...

Posted at 22 Jul 2021 at 10:03h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps by
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The invasion and displacement of more diverse wetland vegetation by Phragmites australis (common reed) is an issue affecting many Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, including some of the most intact examples such as Glenshera Swamp. Phragmites is a native wetland plant with a cosmopolitan distribution (native to...

Posted at 26 Jun 2020 at 00:01h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News by
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Regular readers will be familiar with NGT's ongoing hydrological restoration work at Glenshera Swamp, on the Fleurieu Peninsula near Mount Compass.In the previous newsletter we described recent work completed to backfill an artificial drain that was denying flow to a natural, meandering creekline that formerly carried...

Posted at 29 May 2020 at 16:18h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News by
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Over three wet days in early May, NGT staff (Mark and Ben) got to work with the assistance of an earthworks contractor, backfilling more artificial drains within Stipiturus Conservation Park. This important reserve contains a signification portion of Glenshera Swamp, the largest and most intact...

Posted at 19 Sep 2019 at 15:09h in Eared Worm Lizard Research Project, Fish conservation, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, News, OBP Recovery, Southern Brown Bandicoot, Threatened mainland fauna, Threatened Orchids, Volunteer, Wetland Restoration by
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National Threatened Species Day is celebrated annually on the 7th September to commemorate the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) in Hobart in 1936. Although the origin of National Threatened Species Day is sad and gloomy, it is a good time to reflect on...

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