Week 1 of the fundraising campaign was huge, thanks to the support of our regional media! As well as kicking things off on the NGT website and email newsletter, the Mt Burr Swamp project: was discussed on local ABC Radio at 9:30am on Wednesday the 24th August...
Earlier this month, we were excited to host a Glenelg River Information Night at the Nelson Hotel. The night was a great way of providing community members with an update on a number of our regional projects, all of which involve significant involvement from the...
It feels like a lifetime ago, but way back in February 2012, only a few weeks after Nature Glenelg Trust began, I received an email out of the blue that highlighted a potential site for purchase and restoration, only half an hour from Mt Gambier...
I've been lucky enough to head across Bass Straight to visit Tasmania a few times over the past 15 years and, as someone who has surveyed small mammals in the wild on the mainland since the mid-90s, the first thing that I notice is...
Today marks the beginning of a six-week long campaign to raise the funds necessary to get the Mt Burr Swamp project "over the line"...
The planting season has finally come to end, with all of our threatened flora planted out at their respective sites this month. The above average rainfall this winter has allowed for later planting than normal but has also delayed planting in wet sites. The Restoring Under-represented Ecological Communities...
If you're about to give your garden a 'spring clean' and have a few gaps to fill, we may be able to help you fill them. Our Community Nursery has a small amount of excess tube stock available for purchase. Some of the species available are...
To fit with the theme this week, as we launch the Mt Burr Swamp fundraising campaign, here is a nice panoramic shot taken at sunset by NGT's Lachlan Farrington - looking over Mount Burr Swamp early this winter, before the drains had started to run. We...
If you haven’t heard of or seen Pick Swamp (a 230 hectare property next to Piccaninnie Ponds, now also a reserve), then you haven’t witnessed the incredible recovery potential of drained wetlands - but the results (see below) speak for themselves. Finally, after 10 years, it’s time to...
We've now reached a point in this series where the stories told so far intertwine. The undeniable reality is that, without realising it, the early settlers had paved the way for the establishment and explosion of the fox population – by deliberately persecuting, suppressing and, successfully eradicating from many districts, the only...
