Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve

Immersive nature education for Newbery Park Primary School kids

Posted at 29 Nov 2024 at 20:08h in News, Environmental Education, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, NGT Education by Jess Bourchier

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Over the past couple of months, Newbery Park Primary School, from Millicent in S.A., have joined NGT's Jess on a variety of excursions, to learn all about the local natural environment. First the year 3/4 class headed to Mount Burr Swamp for the day. The...

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Spring update from Mt Burr Swamp

Posted at 27 Oct 2024 at 14:59h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve by Bryan Haywood

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'Planting, planting and more planting' has been the catchcry at Mt Burr Swamp lately through funding from two sponsored projects from Graymont and Department of Transport and Infrastructure (SA). Over 5500 plants have gone in around the edge of the wetland to create riparian zone...

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Recharge Farms important in a drying landscape

Posted at 29 Jul 2024 at 14:11h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Regional Recharge Farms by Bryan Haywood

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Over recent months we have all witnessed perhaps one of the driest starts to winter we've ever experienced in the south east of South Australia. The well below average rainfall has impacted all aspects of the landscape. The impacts have been felt by all people...

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Improving the view at Mt Burr Swamp

Posted at 27 Feb 2024 at 11:31h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve by Bryan Haywood

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NGT recently had some beautiful big replacement windows installed in the old shearing shed at Mt Burr Swamp which is used by visiting groups, for educational activities and by volunteers and staff.So, it is time to share the upgraded 'view' from the Mt Burr Swamp...

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NGT nursery given a helping hand

Posted at 27 Feb 2024 at 11:25h in News, Community Nursery Project, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Mount Vandyke Restoration Reserve by Angela Jones

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Our Community Nursery site at Vansittart Park is in a fantastic central location for our volunteers, and allows us to grow seedlings for numerous restoration projects. However, space at our small nursery is limited and we have nowhere to expand, and this year's planting season...

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Roll up, roll up – the show is well underway at Mt Burr Swamp!

Posted at 29 Jan 2024 at 13:22h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Regional Recharge Farms by Bryan Haywood

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Monitoring using photos from fixed points (called photopoints) can be a successful method of visually showing the changes that take place over time. In NGT's case we use photopoints to see the changes brought about from environmental restoration within a previously modified site or landscape....

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Wetland restoration updates at a glance – Mt Burr Swamp (SA) and Rowan Swamp (Vic)

Posted at 21 Dec 2023 at 20:59h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Regional Recharge Farms, Rowan Swamp Restoration Trial by Mark Bachmann

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Over recent days, I had a chance to swing past the Mt Burr Swamp stage 2 wetland restoration area, and check to see how things are looking six months after remedial works concluded. The best perspective to show the change over this time is shown...

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Satin Flycatcher and more – an exciting bird list at Mt Burr Swamp

Posted at 21 Dec 2023 at 20:58h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve by Bryan Haywood

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Monitoring of chosen groups of indicator wildlife that tell us about our restoration journey is a fascinating component to what we do here at NGT. Secretly, I think we'd all like to be out doing surveys of some sort!This month I gave a talk to...

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Native fish expanding to new ground at Mount Burr Swamp

Posted at 30 Oct 2023 at 11:24h in News, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve by Lachlan Farrington

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Following the excellent winter rainfall in the South East of SA, we're starting to see how that plays out for flora and fauna following the major restoration works completed earlier this year across the Stage 2 area of the Mount Burr Swamp Restoration Reserve. To...

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Reflecting on NGT’s ‘Grand Tour’ and an epic month of sharing stories of ecological restoration success

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 Mark Bachmann

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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,...

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