As regular readers will know, Glenshera Swamp (including Stipiturus Conservation Park) is one of the largest and most intact examples of the critically endangered Fleurieu Pensinsula Swamps, and a site that NGT have been helping to restore in South Australia. Back in July 2016, several months...
Native plants are sprouting and weeds are drowning at Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus Conservation Park! Two years after hydrological restoration work began, the early-season rains are really showing results. Our sandbag structures, built with the help of many hardworking volunteers, are redirecting water into the swamp...
Last weekend, NGT's Ben Taylor and Tessa Roberts joined and enthusiastic bunch of volunteer tree-planters in Stipiturus Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula, SA. The popular community planting event, known as 'SwampFest', is held annually in the park to help re-vegetate historically cleared areas, and...
Last week a small crew (Ben, Mark and Dale from NGT, along with Jason and Randall from DEWNR) headed back to Glenshera Swamp to make some minor adjustments and repairs to the structures we installed last year, both inside and outside Stipiturus CP. This also...
To celebrate World Wetlands Day 2018, on the 2nd of February the Australian Government released the latest edition of Wetlands Australia. This time around, the magazine features an article on the restoration work NGT has commenced in the Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula, in partnership with DEWNR,...
So what do tea bags have to do with swamps?...
While at Glenshera Swamp for a couple of days in late September, we were able to see precisely how responsive an already wet catchment above the swamp is to small amounts of rainfall - with 8.5 mm of rain falling overnight on the 24th of September. So after...
On the 24th and 25th of September, NGT's Mark Bachmann and Ben Taylor teamed up with DEWNR's Randall Johnson to guide visitors around some of the recent restoration works at Stipiturus Conservation Park, 6 km west of Mount Compass. NGT's Ben Taylor kicks off one of...
Well, it's certainly been a busy couple of years for us at Glenshera Swamp (Stipiturus CP), as we've progressed from restoration planning to on-ground works. And so, after a wet July and August (and equally damp start to September), it is time to show you what...
Well, it's been quite a journey over the past 12 months in getting to know another important wetland on the Fleurieu Peninsula at Hesperilla CP (just south of Mt Compass), a small remnant portion of the originally much larger Square Waterhole Swamp. The original extent of Square...
