[caption id="attachment_15374" align="alignright" width="300"] Swamp daisy (Alittia cardiocarpa) at Mortlake Common[/caption] If you’ve spent any time on the highways recently, you may have been happy to notice that many of the wetlands that have been dry over the past couple of years have been receiving good...
We’re still in the midst of planting season, and in the next couple of weeks NGT will be undertaking a translocation of the nationally threatened Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) as part of the RUEC project (to follow on from threatened orchid and Trailing Hop-bush translocations we...
They're a few of the fascinating things to be found at our Maam Water Reserve project site, just out of Warrnambool! [caption id="attachment_15334" align="alignright" width="420"] Dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella pusillla) (image: M. Hammer)[/caption] Things have been steadily ticking along over the last few months at this small wetland reserve...
Last Thursday (the 21st July 2016), I was very privileged to be one of 14 speakers from around Australia who were invited to share their restoration success stories - to mark the launch of the National Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration in Australia, and...
Have a look at one of the strangest fungi you'll see...
In Part 1 of this series, we got a sense of what the wildlife was like in the region in the 1890s, just a short time before the arrival of foxes. But where was the Dingo? - Since its recent arrival in Australia (only about 4000...
It was great to meet a really interested crowd at our OBP Info Session in Koroit on Saturday 25th, with many local groups represented, such as the Warrnambool BirdLife branch, Portland Field Naturalists, and Killarney Coastcare. Rachel Pritchard (from DELWP) and I gave an overview of the...
You may remember from recent blogs (here and here) that we have been undertaking a large revegetation planting at Eaglehawk Waterhole. The initial four day planting stint was followed up by two shorter one and two days sessions to complete the task for this year. Roughly 7500 seedlings...
This message is from Julie Groce at Monash University, undertaking research into private land conservation across Australia...
Another excellent book is available for purchase from the NGT office in Mt Gambier - Attracting Butterflies to your Garden: What to Grow and Conserve in the Adelaide Region. This beautifully presented full-colour book is packed with information about butterfly gardening. While the title is specific to...
