Our monitoring of freshwater fish in autumn was covered by Channel Ten's "Scope TV" show, as they were interested in finding out how environmental flows and fish ladders are helping native species return to the River Torrens. In conjunction with our autumn Western Mt Lofty Ranges...
A few weeks ago, I was invited in to the ABC South East studio for a chat with Selina Green about the latest news from Mt Burr Swamp - so we spent a while discussing the results of the February 2017 Growling Grass Frog survey. You...
[audio mp3="http://natureglenelg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/YOUNG-CARERS-FINAL.mp3"][/audio] Last November, Jess Bourchier and Ruan Gannon had the please of hosting a 'Fishing for the Future' Clinic with 21 Young Carers from Mt Gambier, aged between 8 and 16. This clinic was one of 10 to be undertaken so far, as part of...
A huge thankyou to everyone who came out to Mount Burr Swamp on Tuesday 14 March 2017 for the launch of the Wetland Condition Field Guide, by Troy Horn and myself. The guide has been five years in the making and fills a gap in rapid wetland assessment...
The Autumn 2017 Edition of From the Ground Up has just hit regional Post Office boxes, and it features a couple of updates from NGT. First up (from page 7) is news about some great assistance we've had up at Eaglehawk Waterhole from the Tatiara Green...
The second NGT update in the latest edition of From the Ground Up (on page 8), gives a snapshot of the varied role of NGT's Community Nursery - from experimental propagation and revegetation techniques, to producing plants that help bolster populations of some of our...
Many of NGTs supporters have a strong interest in our wetland species, and they don't come much more iconic than the majestic Brolga! The latest edition (Edition 19, Summer 2017) of Plains Facts includes a nice little progress summary of the NGT Brolga research project being undertaken...
Last year I was invited to speak at a fantastic single day restoration workshop in Sydney attended by around 300 people, and the event was recorded by the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) for RegenTV - a diverse on-line educational resource set-up by AABR for...
It was World Wetlands Day last week (on the 2nd of February) which means the latest edition of Wetlands Australia Magazine has hit the virtual shelves. This time around two NGT stories feature, including: an article by our ecologist Lauren Veale about the latest native fish monitoring...
The Coastal Connections program (organised by DEWNR) is well underway across the South East with kids participating in everything from kayaking to rock pool rambles, sand sculpting to fishing! Last week we kicked off our Fishing for the Future clinics (funded by the SA Government)...
