Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps

Posted at 29 Aug 2024 at 16:51h in News, Aldinga Washpool, Events, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Southern purple-spotted gudgeon by
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If you're based near Adelaide and are interested in learning more about our ecological work restoring rivers, wetlands, and the species they support, then you're in luck! Our Nature Festival bus tour is back by popular demand. When: Friday October 11th, 7:45am to 3pm Where:...

Posted at 29 Jul 2024 at 14:48h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration by
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Calling all NGT friends and supporters in the Adelaide and Fleurieu Peninsula region. Would you like to get involved in some important, hands-on conservation work?On Sunday 11th August 2024 the Friends of Stipiturus and Hesperilla Conservation Parks are hosting Swampfest 2024, a community planting day...

Posted at 24 Jun 2024 at 10:15h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Square Waterhole Swamp by
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Back in late March 2023, following a prescribed burn, NGT oversaw earthworks at Hesperilla Conservation Park, a reserve that protects an important remnant of the critically endangered Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp ecological community. The earthworks backfilled several drains that were drawing groundwater out of the swamp...

Posted at 30 Oct 2023 at 11:24h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration by
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Ben, who is based in Adelaide South Australia, recently received an invitation from the Australian Plants Society to give a presentation on NGT's Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp hydrological restoration projects. The talk was videoed by David Lloyd-Lindley of the Society and has been made publicly available....

Posted at 30 Oct 2023 at 11:22h in News, Conferences, Eaglehawk Waterhole Habitat Restoration Reserve, Environmental Education, Events, Fish conservation, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Long Swamp Restoration, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Mount Vandyke Restoration Reserve, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve by
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As you may have gathered from some of the other articles this month, the last four weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind, personally taking me from north to south, right across this vast continent. As well as attending the SER2023 conference in Darwin,...

Posted at 31 Jul 2023 at 22:19h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Wetland Restoration by
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Last month we shared with readers the story of recent works at Stipiturus Conservation Park, near Mt Compass, south of Adelaide. Sandbag structures first installed in 2017 were covered with soil, using a small excavator, in early April this year, converting them from temporary to...

Posted at 27 Jun 2023 at 20:17h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Wetland Restoration by
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At our recent Fleurieu Swamps Field Day we explained the latest restoration works at Stipiturus Conservation Park (CP), on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide, but we haven't yet informed our readers from further afield. These works mark an important milestone in the restoration of...

Posted at 30 Apr 2023 at 20:08h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration by
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Last time we took a group of people to tour Glenshera Swamp, it was 2017 and our hydrological restoration works on the Fleurieu Peninsula had only just begun. It didn't take long for water to be returned to this unique ecosystem, via blocking old agricultural...