Earlier this month, I visited the Hutt Bay wetlands for the first time. I joined TAFE SA students from Mt Gambier who are studying Conservation and Ecosystem Management and wanted to learn about different techniques NGT used to monitor wetland health. Lachie demonstrates the water quality...
As NGT's 'Recharge Farms' project (which has been supported by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board for the past 15 months) comes to a close, we have been busy compiling all of the relevant information for the Hutt Bay wetlands into the management and restoration plan...
Over the past month, I have tried to drop in to a number of our major wetland restoration sites in SA and Victoria, given the unusually wet spring weather which has given most of these sites a real boost heading in to a later-than-usual summer...
Our South East SA based volunteers have joined us for some very muddy activities over the past month at Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp. First up, in late October NGT Principal Ecologist Lachie Farrington led a group at Hutt Bay in a workshop on Burrowing...
It’s been a very busy couple of months with a large number of volunteer events and school groups at both Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp as part of the Recharge Farms project being delivered in partnership with the Limestone Coast Landscape Board (in case...
NGT have been contracted (in South East SA and western Vic) to undertake many terrestrial fauna and flora surveys over the autumn-winter-spring-summer period of 2022. In fact, that has been our busiest run for this type of work in the past 10 years!Needless to say,...
Much of what goes on in a wetland after we've undertaken remedial works to restore hydrology or manage other threats, goes on quietly without fuss. For fish, frogs, crayfish and many of the smaller water birds, you actually have to go looking closely to find...
The Mt Gambier volunteer crew have been busy recently with a number of activities. A team of eager volunteers joined me for a working bee at Mount Burr Swamp to remove tree guards and do a little hand weeding at the Creations Stories walk area...
With the recent drain-filling works complete at Hutt Bay (summarised here previously), we've been eagerly waiting for the winter rain to fall. Early winter saw the soil soak to capacity, and mid-winter rains - rather than slowly filling and flowing down the artificial drains -...
It feels like I'm on a bit of a roll with interesting wildlife encounters to report this year, which started with the story of the feathertail glider we shared back in February. So with autumn now behind us, let's go through a bit of a...
