On Thursday and Friday last week, we brought the NGT team together at the Cape Bridgewater Coastal Camp for a chance to review the year that has been, share highlights from each other's work, and to look to the future for what might come next. We...
NGT Nursery staff headed over to Portland recently for a workshop on growing and getting the best out of native plant gardens. Gathering in the Portland Community Garden shed, attendees learnt about the benefits of including indigenous natives in home gardens, before the group headed...
While we were at the NGT annual workshop last week - the exciting news came through! Robbie the bittern had completed retracing his steps from earlier in the year, and after recently spending time at Pick Swamp, and then looking around the Glenelg River estuary -...
For those that are interested in the detail of what makes NGT tick - and need some light reading over the Christmas break - please follow this link to the latest NGT Annual Report for 2014-15 Financial Year It is full of information about our achievements, our...
This week's close-up photo of a Heath Mouse from the recent survey in the South East of SA has a bit of a story to tell. Look closely - can you work out the unique mark on this animal used for identification purposes? Stay tuned, as...
If you're looking for some warm weather activities where you can learn more about the amazing environment around us, be sure to check out the current edition of the environmental events calendar! As always, there's plenty happening throughout South East SA and South West Victoria. The...
[caption id="attachment_14008" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lower Finniss River - an important EMLR stream habitat[/caption] An early Christmas present for those that love native fish in the Eastern Mt Lofty Ranges (I am sure there are plenty of you!), our review paper has just been published in Fundamental...
The latest edition of "From The Ground Up" has recently arrived from Natural Resources SE, and with it a couple of articles from NGT that are worth a closer look. So in case you've missed out, here they are! [caption id="attachment_14048" align="aligncenter" width="620"] NGT's article on Bringing...
This beautiful Common Fringe-lily (Thysanotus tuberosus) was spotted in Brown Stringybark heathy woodland habitat during the recent Heath Mouse survey in Honeysuckle Native Forest Reserve. [caption id="attachment_14039" align="aligncenter" width="491"] Common Fringe-lily - Thysanotus tuberosus. Photo: Mark Bachmann[/caption]...
We've recapped our reveg works, weed control, insect collection, and other activities, now we move on to fence removal and look ahead to the coming months. As Eaglehawk was previously a working farm there are over 15 kilometres of internal fencing within the property, which will be...
