Before the recent festive season slow-down kicked in, a couple of items reached the media to round out a massive 2016 for NGT and the Mt Burr Swamp project in particular. Just before Christmas, a really great synopsis of the Mt Burr Swamp project appeared in the...
Thanks to generation final contributions from the Nature Conservation Society of SA and OneFortyOne Plantations helping us to reach our ambitious $110,000 community fundraising target, we received some great coverage of Mt Burr Swamp last week in regional media. If you missed the article in the...
The annual monitoring event for the South Australian population of Eared Worm-lizards was recently undertaken at Furner forest, north of Millicent in the lower South East. The Eared Worm Lizard or Aprasia aurita, only discovered in South Australia in 1997, is a species of legless...
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to join the students from the Narrawong District Primary School again to have a chat about a unique local resident - the Freshwater Burrowing Crayfish! There are two species found throughout the south-west Victorian region: the Hairy...
The September 2016 edition of Australian Birdlife magazine features a great story by Matt Herring, Inka Veltheim and Andrew Silcocks, which tells the full story of Robbie the Bittern, as well as the wider Bitterns in Rice satellite tracking project, which has taught us so much...
Over the final few weeks of the Mt Burr Swamp campaign and its aftermath, there was plenty of media action, following on from earlier radio interviews (to recap - click here for part 1, and here for part 2). First up in this final batch, we...
In last week's radio interview on ABC South East, after a general Mt Burr Swamp update, NGT's Nick Whiterod joined in the progressive conversation (see previous posts here and here) to talk about native freshwater fish in the South East. This gave us an opportunity to explain...
Over the past month, we've had some great conversations on the ABC South East mornings program each Wednesday - learning a great deal about our regional biodiversity from some highly respected supporters of the proposed restoration project at Mt Burr Swamp. In this previous post, we revisited the...
I recently visited Fairview Conservation Park (in the mid south east, north of Lucindale) and noted water, water everywhere. "Not a surprise", I hear you say, but it was nice to see the Melaleucas with water lapping at their feet, in a lagoon I’d never...
Thanks to our friends at ABC South East Radio, the Mt Burr Swamp project has been receiving some fantastic attention over the airwaves. For more information, have a listen to one of the segments below! In the first session, I spoke to mornings presenter Selina Green to...